Stille coupling with alkynes

Prior to our studies trimethylsilyl (TMS) acetylene (4a) has turned out to be a notorious problem in standard acid chloride couplings and there was no report on its successful transformation. We have optimized the coupling conditions and we exemplified them for several (hetero)aroyl chlorides 7 as coupling partners (Scheme 6). It is noteworthy to mention that the yields for the corresponding Stille couplings with tributylstannyl TMS acetylene as alkyne coupling partner give with 70% (8a) [49], 51% (8b) [50], and 45% (8c) [51] substantially lower yields. 

In 2006, Bout and Suffert combined Stille coupling with a preceding intramolecular alkyne insertion into a vinylic palladium bond and developed a new application of the 4-exo-dig cyclocarbopalladation of acyclic y-bromopropargylic diols 120 [48] (Scheme 6.30). This strategy is an efficient route to cyclobutanediol derivatives 121. The efficiency of the reaction is improved greatly by the use of brief microwave irradiation at 130 °C. Further 6ii-electrocyclization occurred, providing new bicyclic systems 123 instead of trienes 122, when the reaction was conducted in the presence... 

The Boger group synthesis commences with a Stille coupling of a stannyl acetylene with two equivalents of a highly oxygenated bromobenzene to yield a symmetrical diarylalkyne (82). The subsequent reaction of this alkyne (82) with 3,6-dicabomethoxytetrazine under Diels-Alder/retrograde Diels-Alder... 

A convenient route for the preparation of yne-allenes was recently described by Saalfrank et al. [19]. Products 29a/b were formed by Stille cross-coupling of allenyl bromides 27a/b with alkynylstannanes such as 28 (Scheme 14.9). Allenyl phospho-nates such as 30 were also suitable substrates in palladium-catalyzed couplings with propargylstannane 31 (Eq. 14.1). Bisstannylated acetylene 33 as alkyne component furnished the expected yne-bisallene 34 in reasonable yield, but without any diaster-eoselectivity (meso-34 (R,R)-/(S,S)-34 =50 50) (Eq. 14.2). 

Halogen atoms. The introduction of side-chains on 9-trifluoromethyl-paullone 409 can be accomplished applying a Stille coupling (Scheme 86, Section 5.2.1.1 (2005EJM655)). Similarly, a Heck reaction of iodo 409 with terminal alkenes under standard conditions affords 2-substituted paullones 413 exclusively as E-isomers. The reaction of terminal alkynes with 409 in the presence of cuprous iodide and a palladium catalyst in triethylamine furnishes the 2-alkynyl-paullones 412 (2000BMCL567). 

The palladium-catalyzed coupling of aryl iodides with vinylstannanes (Stille coupling) leads to the formation of styrenes. With resin-bound vinylstannanes, this reaction can be conducted in such a way that simultaneous detachment from the support of the newly formed styrenes occurs. This has been realized intramolecularly in the preparation of macrocyclic lactones (Entry 4, Table 3.43). The required resin-bound vinylstannanes were prepared either by hydrostannylation of alkynes with a resin-... 

The reaction sequence in the vinylation of aromatic halides and vinyl halides, i.e. the Heck reaction, is oxidative addition of the alkyl halide to a zerovalent palladium complex, then insertion of an alkene and completed by /3-hydride elimination and HX elimination. Initially though, C-H activation of a C-H alkene bond had also been taken into consideration. Although the Heck reaction reduces the formation of salt by-products by half compared with cross-coupling reactions, salts are still formed in stoichiometric amounts. Further reduction of salt production by a proper choice of aryl precursors has been reported (Chapter III.2.1) [1]. In these examples aromatic carboxylic anhydrides were used instead of halides and the co-produced acid can be recycled and one molecule of carbon monoxide is sacrificed. Catalytic activation of aromatic C-H bonds and subsequent insertion of alkenes leads to new C-C bond formation without production of halide salt byproducts, as shown in Scheme 1. When the hydroarylation reaction is performed with alkynes one obtains arylalkenes, the products of the Heck reaction, which now are synthesized without the co-production of salts. No reoxidation of the metal is required, because palladium(II) is regenerated. 

If 2,3-dibromo propene is used as an allylic substrate the substitution product 71 can be either isolated or, after addition of additives and adjustment of the reaction conditions, 71 can readily react in cross-coupling reactions with alkynes (Sonogashira coupling), stannanes (Stille coupling), or boronic acids and boronates (Suzuki coupling) to provide the sequential allylic substitution-cross-coupling products 72-78 in moderate to good yields (Scheme 23). 

Mechanistically, this sequence can be rationalized as an interdigitating hydrostannylation-Stille coupling-tin recycling process (Scheme 65). The Pd(0)-catalyzed hydrostannylation of the terminal alkyne with tributyl-tinhydride furnishes the vinyl stannane, which is transmetallated to the... 

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