Palladium transition metal-catalyzed organometallic

Conventionally, organometallic chemistry and transition-metal catalysis are carried out under an inert gas atmosphere and the exclusion of moisture has been essential. In contrast, the catalytic actions of transition metals under ambient conditions of air and water have played a key role in various enzymatic reactions, which is in sharp contrast to most transition-metal-catalyzed reactions commonly used in the laboratory. Quasi-nature catalysis has now been developed using late transition metals in air and water, for instance copper-, palladium- and rhodium-catalyzed C-C bond formation, and ruthenium-catalyzed olefin isomerization, metathesis and C-H activation. Even a Grignard-type reaction could be realized in water using a bimetallic ruthenium-indium catalytic system [67]. 

Transition metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions between vinyl organometallic compounds and unactivated alkyl halides that can be usually performed with palladium, nickel and cobalt are of particular synthetic interest [37-39]. Recently, the groups of Cahiez [48] and Cossy [49] concurrently reported the first iron-catalyzed reaction of alkenyl Grignard compounds with primary and secondary alkyl halides (X=Br, I) (Scheme 5.15). The two protocols basically differ in the iron source... 

The transition metal catalyzed synthesis of arylamines by the reaction of aryl halides or tri-flates with primary or secondary amines has become a valuable synthetic tool for many applications. This process forms monoalkyl or dialkyl anilines, mixed diarylamines or mixed triarylamines, as well as N-arylimines, carbamates, hydrazones, amides, and tosylamides. The mechanism of the process involves several new organometallic reactions. For example, the C-N bond is formed by reductive elimination of amine, and the metal amido complexes that undergo reductive elimination are formed in the catalytic cycle in some cases by N-H activation. Side products are formed by / -hydrogen elimination from amides, examples of which have recently been observed directly. An overview that covers the development of synthetic methods to form arylamines by this palladium-catalyzed chemistry is presented. In addition to the synthetic information, a description of the pertinent mechanistic data on the overall catalytic cycle, on each elementary reaction that comprises the catalytic cycle, and on competing side reactions is presented. The review covers manuscripts that appeared in press before June 1, 2001. This chapter is based on a review covering the literature up to September 1, 1999. However, roughly one-hundred papers on this topic have appeared since that time, requiring an updated review. 

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