Stannanes, reactivity

Lewis acids, particularly the boron trifluroride diethyl ether complex, are used to promote the reaction between allyl(trialkyl)- and allyl(triaryl)stannanes and aldehydes and ketones52-54. The mechanism of these Lewis acid promoted reactions may involve coordination of the Lewis acid to the carbonyl compound so increasing its reactivity towards nucleophilic attack, or in situ transmetalation of the allyl(trialkyl)stannane by the Lewis acid to generate a more reactive allylmetal reagent. Which pathway operates in any particular case depends on the order of mixing of the reagents, the Lewis acid, temperature, solvent etc.55- 58. 

One limitation of these noncatalyzed allyl(trialkyl)- and allyl(triaryl)stannane-aldehyde reactions is the high temperature required unless the aldehyde is activated towards nucleophilic attack. Allyltin halides are much more reactive because of their enhanced Lewis acid character however 2-butenyltin halides show reduced syn I anti selectivity45, and give other products including linear homoallylic alcohols and tetrahydropyrans47. 

Transmetalation to give l-methyl-2-propenylaluminum followed by isomerization to 2-butenyl isomers may be involved in reactions between aldehydes and 2-butenyl(tributyl)-stannane induced by aluminum(III) chloride in the presence of one mole equivalent of 2-propanol. Benzaldehyde and reactive, unhindered, aliphatic aldehydes give rise to the formation of linear homoallyl alcohols, whereas branched products are obtained with less reactive, more hindered, aldehydes66,79. 

A second consequence of the cyclic transition state of these reactions is that (Z)-alkenyl-stannanes are less reactive than their (E)-isomers and can in some cases be recovered unchanged from reactions in which mixtures of isomers are used109. a-Alkoxy-2-butenylstannanes fail to react with 0,/J-dialkylated a./J-unsaturated aldehydes, on heating, and give low syn/anli stereoselectivity with ,/i-acetylenic aldehydes, perhaps because of reduced steric effects110. 

The problem can be solved by the transformation of the lithium carbanions into the more reactive trichlorotitanium intermediates via the stannanes. Finally, the (- )-sparteine complex of (5)-( )-l-methyl-2-butenyl diisopropylcarbamate105 (Section 1.3.3.3.1.2.) is apparently transmetalated by tetraisopropoxytitanium with inversion of configuration, leading to homoaldol products with moderate diastereomeric excess103. 

The versatility of Pd-catalyzed coupling of stannanes has been extended by the demonstration that alkenyl triflates are also reactive.199... 

As with the silanes, the most useful synthetic procedures involve electrophilic attack on alkenyl and allylic stannanes. The stannanes are considerably more reactive than the corresponding silanes because there is more anionic character on carbon in the C-Sn bond and it is a weaker bond.156 The most useful reactions in terms of syntheses involve the Lewis acid-catalyzed addition of allylic stannanes to aldehydes.157 The reaction occurs with allylic transposition. 

Allylic Sn(II) species are believed to be involved in reactions of allylic trialkyl stannanes in the presence of SnCl2. These reactions are particularly effective in acetonitrile, which appears to promote the exchange reaction. Ketones as well as aldehydes are reactive under these conditions.171... 

There are, however, serious problems that must be overcome in the application of this reaction to synthesis. The product is a new carbocation that can react further. Repetitive addition to alkene molecules leads to polymerization. Indeed, this is the mechanism of acid-catalyzed polymerization of alkenes. There is also the possibility of rearrangement. A key requirement for adapting the reaction of carbocations with alkenes to the synthesis of small molecules is control of the reactivity of the newly formed carbocation intermediate. Synthetically useful carbocation-alkene reactions require a suitable termination step. We have already encountered one successful strategy in the reaction of alkenyl and allylic silanes and stannanes with electrophilic carbon (see Chapter 9). In those reactions, the silyl or stannyl substituent is eliminated and a stable alkene is formed. The increased reactivity of the silyl- and stannyl-substituted alkenes is also favorable to the synthetic utility of carbocation-alkene reactions because the reactants are more nucleophilic than the product alkenes. 

There is a discussion of some of the sources of radicals for mechanistic studies in Section 11.1.4 of Part A. Some of the reactions discussed there, particularly the use of azo compounds and peroxides as initiators, are also important in synthetic chemistry. One of the most useful sources of free radicals in preparative chemistry is the reaction of halides with stannyl radicals. Stannanes undergo hydrogen abstraction reactions and the stannyl radical can then abstract halogen from the alkyl group. For example, net addition of an alkyl group to a reactive double bond can follow halogen abstraction by a stannyl radical. 

This generalized reaction sequence consumes the halide, the stannane, and the reactant X=Y, and effects addition to the organic radical and a hydrogen atom to the X=Y bond. The order of reactivity of organic halides toward stannyl radicals is iodides > bromides > chlorides. 

Allylic stannanes are an important class of compounds that undergo substitution reactions with alkyl radicals. The chain is propagated by elimination of the trialkyl -stannyl radical.315 The radical source must have some functional group that can be abstracted by trialkylstannyl radicals. In addition to halides, both thiono esters316 and selenides317 are reactive. 

Chlorophenyl)-4-phenyl-l,2,5-thiadiazole 128 was prepared from 3-trifluoromethylsulfonyloxy-4-phenyl-1,2,5-thiadiazole 127 by palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction with the tributyl(4-chlorophenyl)stannane (Equation 20) <1996H(43)2435>. The addition of lithium chloride improves the yield. The 3-chloro- and 3-bromo-l,2,5-thiadiazole derivatives were also reactive, but only the bromo compound gave the product in comparable yield (see Section 5.09.7.6). 

Stannanes bearing reactive functional groups on alkyl groups. 405... 

In the more prolific aspect of the Stille couplings involving a pyrimidine fragment, pyrimidinyl halides or triflates have been coupled with a variety of stannanes. When there is only one reactive halide on the pyrimidine ring, the reaction outcome is straightforward with no regiochemical concern. The simpler stannanes are vinyl stannanes [35-37]. More complicated variants include stannylquinones [38] and l-(trialkylsilyloxy)vinyltin [39] as illustrated by the synthesis of 66. 

The reactivity of RI is primary > secondary > tertiary. No reaction occurs with RBr or RC1. The allyl group of the stannane is introduced selectively a to the two electron-withdrawing groups. 

In general, allenic silanes are less reactive than their stannane counterparts. Whereas allenic stannane additions to aldehydes are promoted by the comparatively mild Lewis acid BF3 OEt2 or even MgBr2, the corresponding silanes require TiCI4 or AICI3. Some of the early studies are summarized in Table 9.38 [52],... 

Radical allylations with allylsilanes 71 occur under mild conditions in good to excellent yields, provided that the radical precursor and the silane have the appropriate electronic pairing [85]. The two examples in Reactions (7.75) and (7.76) show the reactivity matching of the allylating agent with the radical. These reactions offer tin-free alternatives for the transformations that are currently carried out by allyl stannanes. 

Although these allylic stannanes are rather resistant to uncatalysed or Lewis acid-catalysed carbonyl addition , they are valuable, shelf-stable homoenolate reagents (see Section IV.C.5), which are activated by Lewis acids or lithiodestannylation. Titanium tetrachloride converts the allylstannanes stereospecifically with inversion into very reactive intermediates (equation 83) . Both isomers, (R,Z)- and (5, )-315, are transformed... 

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