Rr-allylpalladium complexes

Migration of a hydride ligand from Pd to a coordinated alkene (insertion of alkene) to form an alkyl ligand (alkylpalladium complex) (12) is a typical example of the a, /(-insertion of alkenes. In addition, many other un.saturated bonds such as in conjugated dienes, alkynes, CO2, and carbonyl groups, undergo the q, /(-insertion to Pd-X cr-bonds. The insertion of an internal alkyne to the Pd—C bond to form 13 can be understood as the c -carbopa-lladation of the alkyne. The insertion of butadiene into a Ph—Pd bond leads to the rr-allylpalladium complex 14. The insertion is usually highly stereospecific. 

Allylic nitro compounds form rr-allylpalladium complexes by displacement of the nitro group and react with nucleophiles, and allylation with the tertiary nitro compound 202 takes place at the more substituted side without rearrangement to give 203[8,9,128]. 

Allylic ester rearrangement is catalyzed by both Pd(II) and Pd(0) compounds, but their catalyses are different mechanistically. Allylic rearrangement of allylic acetates takes place by the use of Pd(OAc>2-Ph3P [Pd(0)-phosphine] as a catalyst[492,493]. An equilibrium mixture of 796 and 797 in a ratio of 1.9 1.0 was obtained[494]. The Pd(0)-Ph3P-catalyzed rearrangement is explained by rr-allylpalladium complex formation[495]. 

The 2,3-alkadienyl esters 839 are reactive compounds toward Pd catalysts and form the a-alkylidene-rr-allylpalladium complexes 840, which react further to give two kinds of products, namely the 1,2- and 1,4-diene derivatives 841 and 842, depending on the reactants. 

Pd-cataly2ed reactions of butadiene are different from those catalyzed by other transition metal complexes. Unlike Ni(0) catalysts, neither the well known cyclodimerization nor cyclotrimerization to form COD or CDT[1,2] takes place with Pd(0) catalysts. Pd(0) complexes catalyze two important reactions of conjugated dienes[3,4]. The first type is linear dimerization. The most characteristic and useful reaction of butadiene catalyzed by Pd(0) is dimerization with incorporation of nucleophiles. The bis-rr-allylpalladium complex 3 is believed to be an intermediate of 1,3,7-octatriene (7j and telomers 5 and 6[5,6]. The complex 3 is the resonance form of 2,5-divinylpalladacyclopentane (1) and pallada-3,7-cyclononadiene (2) formed by the oxidative cyclization of butadiene. The second reaction characteristic of Pd is the co-cyclization of butadiene with C = 0 bonds of aldehydes[7-9] and CO jlO] and C = N bonds of Schiff bases[ll] and isocyanate[12] to form the six-membered heterocyclic compounds 9 with two vinyl groups. The cyclization is explained by the insertion of these unsaturated bonds into the complex 1 to generate 8 and its reductive elimination to give 9. 

Another reaction occurs by the attack of a soft nucleophile at the central carbon to form the 7r-allylpalladium complex 7, which undergoes further reaction with the nucleophile typical of rr-allylpalladium complexes to form the alkene 8,... 

No reaction of soft carbon nucleophiles takes place with propargylic acet-ates[37], but soft carbon nucleophiles, such as / -keto esters and malonates, react with propargylic carbonates under neutral conditions using dppe as a ligand. The carbon nucleophile attacks the central carbon of the cr-allenylpal-ladium complex 81 to form the rr-allylpalladium complex 82, which reacts further with the carbon nucleophile to give the alkene 83. Thus two molecules of the a-monosubstituted /3-keto ester 84, which has one active proton, are... 

Palladium can be the leaving atom if the substrate is a rr-allylpalladium complex (an complex). Ions of ZCHZ compounds react with such complexes1446 in the presence of triphenylphosphine,1447 e.g.,... 

Tin enolates add to rr-allylpalladium complexes directly on the allyl ligand (inversion).106 383 Therefore, in tandem with the inversion of configuration incurred in the oxidative addition of a Pd° catalyst into an allyl acetate, a net overall retention is observed (equation 155). 

Soft carbon nucleophiles (pKt 10-20) have been shown to add to rr-allylpalladium complexes by direct attack at the allyl ligand and to add preferentially to the sterically less congested allyl terminus. Although all the effects responsible for the regioselectivity demonstrated in a particular case cannot easily be accounted for, the discussion will be organized by the apparent dominant controlling factor being exhibited. 

Electrochemical reduction of a rr-allylpalladium complex results in preferred formation of the more substituted alkene (equation 323).307 Conversely, reduction by Smh, followed by protonation, provides the less substituted alkene predominantly (equation 324).305... 

Vinyl substitution occurs with conjugated dienes as well as with alkenes, employing aryl-, vinyl-, methyl-, alkoxycarbonyl- or benzyl-mercury reagents and lithium tetrachloropalladate(II), but the products are usually rr-allylpalladium complexes if the reactions are carried out under mild conditions (equation 8).24,25 The ir-allylic complexes may be decomposed thermally to substituted dienes26 or reacted with nucleophiles to form allylic derivatives of the nucleophile. Secondary amines, for example, react to give tertiary allylic amines in modest yields, along with dienes and reduced dienes (equation 9).25... 

This section focuses on those reactions of nitrogen nucleophiles with rr-allylpalladium complexes which proceed by stereoselective C-N bond formation. For the sake of brevity, the rr-allyl-palladium complexes involved as reactive intermediates in catalytic processes arc omitted in the diagrams and tables. If not explicitly mentioned otherwise, the depicted structures represent racemic mixtures. 

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