Sequential metal-catalyzed

Furthermore, Pd-catalyzed aminations can be sequentially coupled with alkene insertion and amination. Wolfe and Lira [102] have established a transformation involving two different sequential metal-catalyzed reactions that lead to AT-aryl-2-benzylindolines 125 in moderate to excellent yields upon formation of two C - N bonds and one C - C bond in a one-pot process (Scheme 45). Interestingly, the selective installation of two different aryl groups in this sequence can be accomplished by in situ modification of the Pd catalyst system Pd-126 upon addition of the chelating ligand dpephos prior to addition of the second aryl bromide (Scheme 46). The selectively substituted indoline derivatives 127 were isolated in good to excellent yields. 

Block Copolymers via Sequential Metal-Catalyzed Living Radical Polymerization... 

Through a sequential metal-catalyzed C-N bond formation, 2-amidoindoles 40 were conveniently constructed from o-haloaryl acetylenic bromides 38, carbamate 39 and primary amines (Scheme 13) [41]. It is believed that Cu-catalyzed intermo-lecular amidation occurred first, and the resultant o-haloaryl substituted ynamides were coupled with primary amines, affording indoles 40 after intramolecular nucleophilic attack. 

Scheme 13 Synthesis of 2-amidoindoles via a sequential metal-catalyzed C-N bond framation...

The four hitherto known routes of the C-H insertion are shown in Scheme 1. In general, the insertion by singlet carbenes proceeds via route a in one step, whereas the reaction by triplet carbenes proceeds sequentially via route b, i.e., hydrogen abstraction followed by recombination of the radical pairs.4 Other stepwise mechanisms are hydride abstraction (route c) and proton abstraction (route d), both being followed by the recombination of ion pairs. However, extended study on routes c and d for synthetic purposes had not been done before we started, except for a few earlier studies on carbanion-promoted P C-H insertion reactions.5,6 Recent advances in transition metal-catalyzed... 

The metal-catalyzed amplification of e.e. in small molecules, demonstrated by Soai and coworkers, along with the chiral enrichment of amino arid polymers by sequential polymerization/depolymerization steps, have shown that small enantiomeric excesses in nearly racemic mixtures can be reactively amplified to produce chiral dominance. These real chemical systems, which include plausible prebiotic reactions, experimentally demonstrate the principle of the chiral amplification of a spontaneously broken chiral symmetry in a dynamic and authentic chemical milieu. Therefore amplification to dominance of a small chiral excess of both small and polymeric molecules can be credibly incorporated into an origin-of-life model. 

As part of our efforts to develop new efficient one-pot methodologies to access novel heterocyclic structures, we also reported an efficient synthesis of spiro[4,61-lactones and lactames by sequential multicomponent reaction/metal-catalyzed carbo-cyclizations from simple five-membered cyclic (3-ketoesters and (3-ketoamides,... 

Scheme 62 Sequential multicomponent a,Y-difunctionalization of 1,3-dicarbonyl/metal-catalyzed carbocyclization for the synthesis of sprro[4,6]-lactones and lactames...

Habib-Zahmani H, Viala J, Hacini S, Rodriguez J (2007) Synthesis of functionalized spiroheterocycles by sequential multicomponent reaction/metal-catalyzed carbocylizations from simple beta-ketoesters and amides. Synlett 1037-1042... 

Substitution of halopurines at C-2 and C-6 has become a well-developed synthetic process, with a wide variety of nucleophilic aromatic substitution and palladium-catalyzed C-N or C-O hond formations exemplified in the literature. The use of selective, sequential substitution reactions on polyhalopurine scaffolds is the basis of an increasing number of combinatorial syntheses of polysubstituted purines, both in solution and on solid phase. The introduction of N-, 0-, or S-substituents has often been combined with transition metal-catalyzed C-C bond-forming reactions (see Section 10.11.7.4.2) and selective N-alkylation (see Section 10.11.5.2.1) to provide versatile routes to purines with multiple, diverse substituents. 

To make the transformation even more useful, different carbon electrophiles should be connected sequentially in a stepwise manner. For this purpose, a transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction opened the way. As shown in Scheme 22, cinnamyl chloride is treated with bis(iodozincio)methane (3) in the presence of palladium catalyst with various phosphine ligands. Phosphine ligands, having an electron-withdrawing group, such as tris[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]phosphine and tris(2-furanyl)phosphine, show excellent results47. 

However, the latter type of metal-catalyzed cascade reactions turns out to be even more challenging since issues of selectivity and efficiency are crucially dependent on the particular catalyst structure. This type can either be performed in a parallel or sequential fashion [16,21], Whereas parallel catalysis is significantly more difficult to develop, sequential catalysis offers the possibility of altering reaction conditions and additives from step to step in the sense of bi- or multicatalytic one-pot processes, assisted tandem catalysis, or auto tandem catalysis [1]. Therefore, a demanding goal is the development of one-catalyst multireaction sequences that set the stage for new reactions in diversity-oriented syntheses of complex molecular structures (for reviews on diversity-oriented syntheses see [27-33]). 

The categories of sequentially Pd-catalyzed processes in this chapter are based upon the initial process. These are Heck reactions, allylic substitutions, aminations, Sonogashira couplings, metallations, CH activations, cycloisomer izations and miscellaneous processes. 

Nature accomplishes many syntheses-even those of complex molecules-by sequences of elementary steps. In the last few decades, the blueprint of catalyzed cascade reactions has found fertile soil through the advent of transition metal catalysis in laboratories. Scrutinizing catalytic cycles and mechanistic insight has paved the way for designing new sequential transformations catalyzed by transition metal complexes in a consecutive or domino fashion. In particular, transition metal-catalyzed sequences considerably enhance structural complexity by multiple iterations of organometalhc elementary steps. All this has fundamentally revolutionized synthetic strategies and conceptual thinking. 

Muller TJJ (2006) Sequentially palladium-catalyzed processes. In Muller TJJ (ed) Metal catalyzed cascade reactions. Topics in Organometallic Chemistry, vol 19. Springer, Berlin/ Heidelberg, pp 149-205... 

The 1,3-disposition of the heteroatoms also imparts differential acidities to the ring positions, enabling sequential deprotonation. This rich acid-base chemistry permits selective functionalization of each ring-carbon atom. The synthesis of other organometaUic oxazoles and transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions are also described. Applications of new cross-coupling methods for preparing polyoxazoles in the context of the syntheses of natural products are described in Section 1.5. 

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