1- substituted derivatives, cross-coupling

The von Richter cinnoline process was further extended to solid-phase synthesis. The route began from benzylaminomethyl polystyrene and the required diverse o-haloaryl resins represented by 21 were prepared from substituted o-haloanilines. A Pd-mediated cross-coupling reaction with 21 and the alkynes provided the alkynylaryl derivatives represented by alkyne 22. The von Richter cyclization reaction with hydrobromic or hydrochloric acid in acetone/HaO and cleavage from the resin occurred in the same step to furnish the cinnoline derivatives 23 in 47-95% yield and 60-90% purity (no yield reported for each entry). 

Bosch s group cross-coupled both 2- and 3-indolylzinc derivatives with diversely substituted 2-halopyridines to assemble 2- and 3-(2-pyridyl)indoles, which have become important intermediates in indole alkaloid synthesis [23-28]. Thus, l-(phenylsulfonyl)indole (30) was converted to 2-indolylzinc reagent 32, which was then coupled with 2-halopyridine 33 to secure 2-(2-pyridyl)indole 34. 

Costanzo et al. <2002MI87> published the synthesis of the furyl-substituted pyrazolo[3,2-f][l,2,4]triazine derivative 146 by Suzuki coupling of the iodo compound 145 with 2-furylboronic acid. The yield was found to be moderate (38%). It may be important to mention that these authors also tried to transform 145 to a heteroaromatic boronic acid and to carry out cross-coupling of this compound with 3-bromofuran. Unfortunately, however, this approach failed and only homo-coupling occurred. 

Palladium catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of 1-substituted glycals have not only been limited to tributylstannyl derivatives. In fact, the versatility of this approach is significantly enhanced by the fact that C-l zinc-, indium-, or iodine-substituted glycals (easily accesible from glycals, see Scheme 7)... 

In spite of these first successful results, so far Stille cross-couplings have rarely reported employing functionalized stannylated allenes such as easily available donor-substituted allene 80a or allenyl esters such as 81 (Scheme 14.19) [19, 41, 42]. A single palladium-catalyzed annulation reaction with 80b as precursor leading to an a-pyrone derivative was reported [43],... 

Knoke and de Meijere [60] recently developed a highly flexible domino Heck-Diels-Alder reaction of a symmetrically substituted cumulene 125, which also involves cross-couplings of an allene at the central position. Both aryl and hetaryl halides react efficiently with l,3-dicyclopropyl-l,2-propadiene (125) and furnish 1,3,5-hexatriene derivatives 126 as intermediates, which are usually trapped by acceptor-substituted olefins in a subsequent cycloaddition, providing adducts 127a/b in moderate to good overall yields (Scheme 14.30). 

The reaction of iodo-substituted aryltriazenes 594 with /-PrMgCl LiCl afforded functionalized carbazoles 596. In this reaction, evaporation of i-Prl resulting from the 1/Mg-exchange is important before heating otherwise, unwanted cross-coupling products with i-Prl are observed. Mechanistically, this reaction could proceed with the formation of an arylmagnesium derivative 595 followed by intramolecular addition of the triazene onto nitrogen with the elimination of hydroxylamine (569) (Scheme 5.31). 

Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions are not restricted to stannane derivatives, however, and other azaheterocyclic carbanion derivatives to have been investigated include l-methyl-2-pyrrolylmagnesium bromide and l-methyl-2-pyrrolylzinc chloride (81TL5319), l-methyl-2-indolymagnesium bromide (81TL5319), l-substituted-2- and 5-imidazolyl-... 

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