Reactions a-arylation

Coupling reactions. a-Arylation of cyclic enaminones (vinylogous lactams) is accomplished by couphng with ArBFsK, but iV-Boc derivatives fail to fohow suit ... 

It has been found that treatment of propiophenone with an excess amount of bromobenzene gives rise to l,2,3-triphenyl-2-propen-l-one (Eq. 11) [43]. In this reaction, a-arylation, unsaturation via -hydrogen elimination, and Heck-type arylation occur successively. From the reaction of butyrophenone is obtained the corresponding triarylated product (Eq. 12). The reaction sequence involves a-arylation, unsaturation via p-hydrogen elimination, two times vinyl-ogous arylation (y-arylation), and double bond isomerization. It should be noted that a,p-unsaturated carbonyl compounds are generally arylated at their y position (Eqs. 13 and 14) [54-56]. 

Several coupling reactions, particularly those involving aryl halides, have been discussed in the chapter devoted to copper (see above). However, Pd(0) and Ni(0) complexes are also efficient reagents for realizing such coupling reactions, a-aryl palladium entities being formed as intermediates. 

An Q-arylalkanoate is prepared by the reaction of aryl halide or triflate with the ketene silyl acetal 74 as an alkene component. However, the reaction is explained by transmetallation of Ph - Pd—Br with 74 to generate the Pd eno-late 75, which gives the a-arylalkanoate by reductive elimination[76]. 

When allylic alcohols are used as an alkene component in the reaction with aryl halides, elimination of /3-hydrogen takes place from the oxygen-bearing carbon, and aldehydes or ketones are obtained, rather than y-arylated allylic alcohoIs[87,88]. The reaction of allyl alcohol with bromobenzene affords dihydrocinnamaldehyde. The reaction of methallyl alcohol (96) with aryl halides is a good synthetic method for dihydro-2-methylcinnamaldehyde (97). 

A Pd-cataly2ed reaction of amines with halides is expected, but actually little is known about the reaction. The CDE ring system of lavendamycin (805) has been constructed by the intramolecular reaction of aryl bromide with aniline derivative in 804, but 1.2 equiv, of Pd(Ph3P)4 is required[679]. 

A reaction of aryl diazonium salts that does not involve loss of nitrogen takes place when they react with phenols and arylamines Aryl diazonium ions are relatively weak elec trophiles but have sufficient reactivity to attack strongly activated aromatic rings The reaction is known as azo coupling two aryl groups are joined together by an azo (—N=N—) function... 

Reaction of aryl diazonium salts with iodide ion (Section 22 17) Adding po tassium iodide to a solution of an aryl diazonium ion leads to the formation of an aryl iodide... 

Noticeably absent from Table 23 3 are nucleophilic substitutions We have so far seen no nucleophilic substitution reactions of aryl halides m this text Chlorobenzene for example is essentially inert to aqueous sodium hydroxide at room temperature Reac tion temperatures over 300°C are required for nucleophilic substitution to proceed at a reasonable rate... 

Benzyne is formed as a reactive intermediate in the reaction of aryl halides with very strong bases such as potassium amide... 

Aromatic Ring Fluorination. The formation of an aryl diazonium fluoride salt, followed by decomposition, is a classical reaction (the Schiemaim reaction) for aryl fluoride preparation (21). This method has been adapted to the production-scale manufacture of fluorobenzene [462-06-6]... 

Carboxyhc acids react with aryl isocyanates, at elevated temperatures to yield anhydrides. The anhydrides subsequently evolve carbon dioxide to yield amines at elevated temperatures (70—72). The aromatic amines are further converted into amides by reaction with excess anhydride. Ortho diacids, such as phthahc acid [88-99-3J, react with aryl isocyanates to yield the corresponding A/-aryl phthalimides (73). Reactions with carboxyhc acids are irreversible and commercially used to prepare polyamides and polyimides, two classes of high performance polymers for high temperature appHcations where chemical resistance is important. Base catalysis is recommended to reduce the formation of substituted urea by-products (74). 

V-Alkyl and A/-aryl substituted naphthyl amines are also important, eg, letter acid derivatives, but are usually manufactured by the Bucherer reaction. 

In these types of 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition only one of two possible isomers is obtained and the pyrazole functions have different orientations by the two methods. Another classical synthesis of pyrazoles (Section 4.04.3.2.l(ii)), the reaction between hydrazines and )3-diketones, has been used with success to prepare high molecular weight polypyrazoles (Scheme 65) (81MI40400). A-Arylation (Section 4.04.2.1.3(ix)) of 4,4 -dipyrazolyl with 1,4-diiodobenzene also yields polymeric pyrazoles (69RRC1263). 

This synthesis is only one example of a wide range of reactions which involve aryl (or alkyl) radical addition to electron-deficient double bonds resulting in reduction.The corresponding oxidative reaction using aryl radicals is the well known Meerwein reaction, which uses copper(II) salts. 

The copper species formed depends on the solvent, and three different species were detected by F NMR, although the structure of each species was not elucidated [245 This copper reagent undergoes a variety of coupling reactions with aryl, alkenyl, allyl, and acetylenic halides [244, 245 (equation 162)... 

The perfluoroacetylenic copper compounds undergo coupling reactions with aryl iodides and provide a useful synthetic route to the perfluoroalkyl aryl alkynes [147, 255] (equation 170) Coupling of these copper reagents with the 1-iodo-perfluoroalkynes gives the perfluorodiynes [747 255] (equation 171)... 

The reaction conditions (neutral, acidic or basic) do have an affect on the regioselectivity of the reaction. Acidic reaction conditions have also been shown to preferentially provide one regioisomer over basic conditions for reactions of aryl hydrazines. Extensive studies with 2-perfluoroacylcycloalkanones and mono-substituted hydrazines were studied to determine the selectivity of various alkyl-, aryl-, and heteroaryl-substituted hydrazines. Reactions of the aryl hydrazine 21 with the trifluoromethyl-substituted cycloalkanone 22 under neutral conditions (methanol, reflux) gave a mixture of isomers 23 and 24, whereas the reaction of the pyridyl hydrazine 25 was shown to give exclusively 26. 

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