Stepwise coupling reaction

A practical difficulty in stepwise coupling reactions lies in the isolation and purification of intractable products at each step of the synthesis. In the synthesis of polypeptides and proteins this problem has been met by the Merrifield solid state technique (107) in which the initial protected monomer unit is linked to an insoluble polystyrene bead, the protecting group removed and subsequent coupling, washing and deblocking steps are carried out on the bead. The removal of the polypeptide is eventually accomplished at the end of the synthesis. 

Stepwise Coupling Reaction with Two Different Electrophiles... 

Kishimoto et al. (1974, 1981) found a general acid catalysis by protonated pyridines in coupling reactions of the 1-naphthoxide ion if weakly electrophilic diazonium ions were used. In this case it is likely that the general acid protonates the carbonyl oxygen of the o-complex, with a concerted or stepwise deprotonation at the 4-position (transition stage 12.150). 

Novel heteroquaterphenoquinones were synthesized by a stepwise cross-coupling reaction or by a more convenient one-pot oxidative homocoupling reaction of the heterocycle-substituted phenols (Scheme 20, <96JOC4784 see also 95TL8055>). 

In order to manufacture a diarylide yellow pigment, the diamine, dissolved in hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid, is bisdiazotized with an aqueous sodium nitrite solution. The resulting diazonium compound is subsequently coupled onto two equivalents of acetoacetarylide. Since a material with a very fine particle size is needed for a fast and complete coupling reaction, the coupling component is prepared by dissolution in an alkaline medium and reprecipitation with an acid, such as acetic acid or hydrochloric acid. Dichlorobenzidine cannot be diazotized stepwise. A lack of sodium nitrite does not produce the monodiazonium compound, but an excess of 3,3 -dichlorodiaminodiphenyl remains. 

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. 

The second common method of polymer synthesis involves the stepwise coupling of small molecules which are difunctional by virtue of reactive functional groups. A typical example of step-reaction polymerization would be the synthesis of polyamides by reaction of a diamine with a diacid. In these systems the chain is built up slowly by reaction of any pair of functional groups in the system and it is common for the coupling to involve elimination of a small molecule. Conventionally these polymerizations allow more control over the chain structure but difficulties in reaching very high conversions and problems of reagent purity usually lead to much shorter... 

The one-pot Stille cross-coupling reaction of compound 256 produced all four isomeric thieno[3,2-c]naphthyridines (1994JHC11). The stepwise formation of the C(7)-C(7a) and C(4)-N(5) bonds of the thieno[3,2-c]pyridine system can be considered as a modification of the above-described approaches. For example, aldehyde 256 reacts with arene 265 to give 266 reduction of its nitro group is accompanied by cyclization to form thieno[3,2-c]isoquinoline A-oxide (267) (1990JHC1127). 

Carboxylic mixed anhydrides are very important for the rapid synthesis of peptides by the stepwise procedure,however the use of carboxylic mixed anhydrides,e.g.those derived from pivalic acid and a protected amino acid (1),suffers from two disadvantages. Firstly,regiospecificity of attack at the desired carboxyl function is largely determined by steric effects and will not be 100% for all coupling reactions.Secondly,such mixed anhydrides have a propensity towards disproportionation to symmetric anhydrides which is highly undesirable in terms of reaction efficiency.This latter process can be depressed by operation of the reaction at -15 °C, but with the concurrent decrease in reaction rate and,on large scale manufacture,increased costs. 

Direct evidence for stepwise reduction was obtained in the electrolytic reduction of t-butyl bromide at a mercury cathode in DMF18,19. The polarogram or cyclic voltammogram shows two waves [E1/2 = -1.23 V, -1.46 V (see)] indicating stepwise reduction. Labelling experiments indicate that isobutylene and isobutane arise from disproportionation of t-butyl radicals, and the 2,2,3,3-tetramethylbutane arises from a coupling reaction (equation 2). Reduction at the second wave leads to a carbanion, evidence of which is provided by... 

Stepwise formation of hydroxy and alkoxy alkynes from carbonyl-car-byne coupling reactions has been studied by Kreissl and co-workers over the past decade (102). These coupling reactions typically form ketenyl complexes prior to electrophilic addition at oxygen to yield alkyne pro-... 

Scheme 8.4 Stepwise synthesis of the tetrapeptide 18, containing the sequence 14-17 of the human proinsulin C-peptide, from the methoxy(phenyl)carbene complex 16 via the carbene chromium derivative 17 as the intermediate (Gly-OMe and Pro-OMe were the methyl esters of glycine and proline). The C—N coupling reactions in steps (1)—(4) were carried out using the DCCD/HOSU method, explained in [35]...

In symmetrically substituted 3,4-dihalothiophenes, several stepwise cross-coupling reactions have been performed <2005T2245>. Thus, 3,4-dibromothiophene undergoes a Negishi coupling with benzylzinc bromide to yield the monobromothiophene 84. This can be subjected to a Kumada cross-coupling to give the unsymmetrically substituted thiophenes 85. 

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