Oxidation Pd-catalyzed

The method was applied to the synthesis of (-t-)-l9-nortestosterone by the following sequence of reactions. Michael addition of the bisannulation reagent 124 to the optically active keto ester 129 and decarboxylation afforded 130, and subsequent aldol condensation gave 131. Selective Pd-catalyzed oxidation of the terminal double bond afforded the diketone 132 in 78% yield. Reduction of the double bond and aldol condensation gave ( + )-19-nortestosterone (133)[114]. 

The 3.8-nonadienoate 91, obtained by dimerization-carbonylation, has been converted into several natural products. The synthesis of brevicomin is described in Chapter 3, Section 2.3. Another royal jelly acid [2-decenedioic acid (149)] was prepared by cobalt carbonyl-catalyzed carbonylation of the terminal double bond, followed by isomerization of the double bond to the conjugated position to afford 149[122], Hexadecane-2,15-dione (150) can be prepared by Pd-catalyzed oxidation of the terminal double bond, hydrogenation of the internal double bond, and coupling by Kolbe electrolysis. Aldol condensation mediated by an organoaluminum reagent gave the unsaturated cyclic ketone 151 in 65% yield. Finally, the reduction of 151 afforded muscone (152)[123]. n-Octanol is produced commercially as described beforc[32]. 

This new impurity proved to be derived from the Pd-catalyzed oxidation of DIPA to the enamine via P-hydride elimination. In fact, mixing Pd(OAc)2 with DIPA in DMF-d7 readily formed Pd black along with two species, primary amine and acetone, presumably derived from the enamine through hydrolysis. The resulting enamine or acetone then underwent a coupling reaction with iodoaniline 28. Heterocyclization through the arylpalladium(II) species provided 2-methyl indole 71, as shown in Scheme 4.19. 

Ohta has developed a facile and efficient synthesis of pyrroles 42 that involves the Pd-catalyzed oxidative cyclization of hydroxy enamines such as 41 [41]. Fused pyrroles 43 and 44 were also synthesized in similar fashion. 

Conjugated dienes can also undergo Pd-catalyzed oxidative carbonylations. Thus, 1,3-butadiene has been converted into a mixture of 1,4-addition products, according to Eq. 15 [12]. 

The reactions can be carried out in aqueous solutions or biphasic mixtures of the substrates with no additional solvent, in the presence of NaOAc (pH s 11.5) at 100 °C. At this pH the resting state of the catalyst is probably the dinuclear species depicted on Scheme 8.1, which falls apart upon coordination of the substrate alcohol. In this respect the catalyst system as very similar to that for the oxidation of terminal olefins [10,11]. Good results were obtained with 30 bar of air, however, an 8 % O2/N2 mixture can also be used, which further improves the safety of the process. Recycling of the aqueous catalyst solution is possible and is especially easy in case of biphasic reaction mixtures. Taking all these features, this Pd-catalyzed oxidation of alcohols is a green process, indeed. 

The catalytic mechanism for BQ-coupled Pd-catalyzed oxidation reactions is formally identical to that of the aerobic oxidation reactions (Scheme 2). Benzoquinone replaces O2 as the oxidant for Pd and hydroquinone is formed as a by-product. This similarity suggests that it might be possible to convert... 

In 1960, Moiseev and coworkers reported that benzoquinone (BQ) serves as an effective stoichiometric oxidant in the Pd-catalyzed acetoxylation of ethylene (Eq. 2) [19,20]. This result coincided with the independent development of the Wacker process (Eq. 1, Scheme 1) [Ij. Subsequently, BQ was found to be effective in a wide range of Pd-catalyzed oxidation reactions. Eor example, BQ was used to achieve Wacker-type oxidation of terminal alkenes to methyl ketones in aqueous DMF (Eq. 3 [21]), dehydrogenation of cyclohexanone (Eq. 4 [22]), and alcohol oxidation (Eq. 5 [23]). In the final example, 1,4-naphthoquinone (NQ) was used as the stoichiometric oxidant. 

Although the methods illustrated above describe important steps toward the use of molecular oxygen in selective oxidation reactions, the need for cocatalysts increases the reaction s complexity and decreases the overall atom economy of the reaction [34,35]. It would be even more attractive if dioxygen could be used as the sole oxidant for Pd°. Indeed, early examples of direct dioxygen-coupled catalysis had been reported (Eqs. 9-11) [36-39], but prospects for this class of Pd-catalyzed oxidation reactions did not become widely appreciated until recently [12-18]. 

The recognition that certain organic ligands can promote direct dioxygen-coupled turnover (Scheme 2) prompted a resurgence of interest in Pd-catalyzed oxidation reactions [12-18]. For example, numerous new catalysts have been developed for aerobic alcohol oxidation (Chart 2) [40-56], which... 

In addition to the development of new catalysts and reaction conditions for aerobic oxidative heterocycUzation, considerable effort has been directed toward asymmetric transformations. Hosokawa and Murahashi reported the first example of asymmetric Pd-catalyzed oxidative heterocycUzation reactions of this type [157,158]. They employed catalytic [(+)-(Ti -pinene)Pd (OAc)]2 together with cocatalytic Cu(OAc)2 for the cycUzation of 2-allylphenol substrates however, the selectivity was relatively poor (< 26% ee). 

The intramolecular addition of carbon nucleophiles to alkenes has received comparatively little attention relative to heterocyclization reactions. The first examples of Pd-catalyzed oxidative carbocyclization reactions were described by Backvall and coworkers [164-166]. Conjugaled dienes with appended al-lyl silane and stabilized carbanion nucleophiles undergo 1,4-carbochlorination (Eq. 36) and carboacetoxylation (Eq. 37), respectively. The former reaction employs BQ as the stoichiometric oxidant, whereas the latter uses O2. The authors do not describe efforts to use molecular oxygen in the reaction with allyl silanes however, BQ was cited as being imsuccessful in the reaction with stabihzed car-banions. Benzoquinone is known to activate Ti-allyl-Pd intermediates toward nucleophilic attack (see below. Sect. 4.4). In the absence of BQ, -hydride eUm-ination occurs to form diene 43 in competition with attack of acetate on the intermediate jr-allyl-Pd" species to form the 1,4-addition product 44. 

Hosokawa, Murahashi, and coworkers demonstrated the ability of Pd" to catalyze the oxidative conjugate addition of amide and carbamate nucleophiles to electron-deficient alkenes (Eq. 42) [177]. Approximately 10 years later, Stahl and coworkers discovered that Pd-catalyzed oxidative amination of styrene proceeds with either Markovnikov or anti-Markovnikov regioselectivity. The preferred isomer is dictated by the presence or absence of a Bronsted base (e.g., triethylamine or acetate), respectively (Scheme 12) [178,179]. Both of these reaction classes employ O2 as the stoichiometric oxidant, but optimal conditions include a copper cocatalyst. More recently, Stahl and coworkers found that the oxidative amination of unactivated alkyl olefins proceeds most effectively in the absence of a copper cocatalyst (Eq. 43) [180]. In the presence of 5mol% CUCI2, significant alkene amination is observed, but the product consists of a complicated isomeric mixture arising from migration of the double bond into thermodynamically more stable internal positions. 

Scheme 12 Regioselective Pd-catalyzed oxidative amination of styrene...

Selectivity for each product formation may also be controlled by an effective catalyst system. After the discovery of the reaction by Heck, Stille applied the reaction to organic synthesis, as he observed the preferential formation of [3-methoxy esters under neutral conditions and 1,2-diesters in the presence of a base. As Bianchini reported in 2001, selective formation of a,/3-unsaturated ester product is established by an addition of protic acid such as y)-TsOH in bis-phosphine/Pd-catalyzed oxidative alkoxycarbonylation. ... 

Several Pd-catalyzed oxidations with different reoxidants have been developed. In these reactions PdCl2 or Pd(OAc)2 in acetic acid is usually employed, with tert-BuOOH and Te02,699 or p-benzoquinone and MnO2 70°... 

As with platinum, the palladium-catalyzed oxidation of anomeric hydroxyl groups in aldoses is a rather selective process.84 The influence of pH in the Pd-catalyzed oxidation of glucose has been studied. It was observed that the gluconic acid formed, in its free form, reversibly inhibits the oxidation process in acidic media.85 The oxidation of D-glucose has been performed with palladium-on-alumina and with bismuth-containing palladium-on-charcoal in water.85 The selectivity in the air oxidation of... 

The 1,5-diketone 26 is prepared by 3-butenylation of ketone, followed by the Pd-catalyzed oxidation of 25 and annulated to form cyclohexenone 27 [18]. In this method, the 3-butenyl group is the masked methyl vinyl ketone. The 3-butenyl group attached to the B ring of the baccatin skeleton 28 was oxidized to the methyl ketone 29 in 98% yield, whereas the corresponding allyl group was oxidized to aldehyde [35]. 

Fig. 50 Pd-catalyzed oxidative C-H arylation using aroyl peroxides...

The significantly greater stability of metal-complexed NHCs relative to phosphines will permit further analysis of these fundamental reactions. Ongoing studies promise to provide significant insight into the aerobic oxidation of Pd(0) in Pd-catalyzed oxidation reactions. 

A Pd-catalyzed oxidative cyclization of phenols with oxygen as stoichiometric oxidant in the noncoordinating solvent toluene has been developed for the synthesis of dihydrobenzo[ ]furans (Equation 136). Asymmetric variants of this Wacker-type cyclization have been reported by Hayashi and co-workers employing cationic palladium/2,2 -bis(oxazolin-2-yl)-l,l -binaphthyl (boxax) complexes <1998JOC5071>. Stoltz and co-workers have reported ee s of up to 90% when (—)-sparteine is used as a chiral base instead of pyridine <2003AGE2892, 2005JA17778>. Attempts to effect such a heteroatom cyclization with primary alcohols as substrates, on the other hand, led to product mixtures contaminated with aldehydes and alkene isomers, which is in contrast to the reactions with the Pd(ii)/02 system in DMSO <1995TL7749>. 

Scheme 9 Pd-catalyzed oxidative carbonylation of allyl indiums.

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