Suzuki aryl halides

The Suzuki coupling of arylboronic acids and aryl halides has proven to be a useful method for preparing C-aryl indoles. The indole can be used either as the halide component or as the boronic acid. 6-Bromo and 7-bromoindolc were coupled with arylboronic acids using Pd(PPh3)4[5]. No protection of the indole NH was necessary. 4-Thallated indoles couple with aryl and vinyl boronic acides in the presence of Pd(OAc)j[6]. Stille coupling between an aryl stannane and a haloindole is another option (Entry 5, Table 14.3). 

D. O., Micro-reactor synthesis synthesis of cyanobiphenyls using a modified Suzuki coupling of an aryl halide and aryl boronic acid, in Ehefeld, W. (Ed.), Microreaction Technology 3rd International Conference on Microreaction Technology, Proc. of... 

The Suzuki-Miyaura synthesis is one of the most commonly used methods for the formation of carbon-to-carbon bonds [7]. As a palladium catalyst typically tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0) has been used, giving yields of44—78%. Recently, Suzuki coupling between aryl halides and phenylboronic acid with efficient catalysis by palladacycles was reported to give yields of 83%. 

A closely related reaction that is currently receiving much attention is the palladium-catalysed Suzuki coupling of arylboronic acids with aryl halides (Fu and Littke, 1998). For example, this technology has recently been applied by Clariant workers for the production of o-tolyl-benzonitrile (Eqn. (13)), an intermediate to a series of so-called angiotensin-II antagonists, a new class of antihypertensive drugs (Bernhagen, 1998). 

Under all the conditions studied, addition of bare Si02-SH to Heck or Suzuki coupling reactions using a variety of bases, aryl halides and solvents resulted in complete cessation of the catalytic activity (35). These results suggest that catalysis with this precatalyst is also associated with labile palladium species that... 

Suzuki coupling reactions with aryl halides. Two as-prepared BaCei cPd c03. ( materials (x = 0.05 and 0.10) were successfully utihzed in several Suzuki coupling reactions. Both aryl iodides and aryl bromides react smoothly with 4-phenylboronic acid, eq 1, to yield the corresponding biatyls in high yields (> 95%). For both 4-bromoanisole and 4-iodoanisole, the biatyl yields reached nearly 100% in 3 min with BaCeo 95Pdoo503 5 as the catalyst, corresponding to an effective TON of ca. 2,000 and an effective TOF of nearly 50,000 h. Resnlts are smmnarized in Table 27.1. 

A potentially interesting development is the microwave-assisted transition-metal-free Sonogashira-type coupling reaction (Eq. 4.10). The reactions were performed in water without the use of copper(I) or a transition metal-phosphine complex. A variety of different aryl and hetero-aryl halides were reactive in water.25a The amount of palladium or copper present in the reaction system was determined to be less than 1 ppm by AAS-MS technique. However, in view of the recent reassessment of a similarly claimed transition-metal-free Suzuki-type coupling reaction, the possibility of a sub-ppm level of palladium contaminants found in commercially available sodium carbonate needs to be ruled out by a more sensitive analytical method.25 ... 

Transition metal-catalyzed transformations are of major importance in synthetic organic chemistry [1], This reflects also the increasing number of domino processes starting with such a reaction. In particular, Pd-catalyzed domino transformations have seen an astounding development over the past years with the Heck reaction [2] - the Pd-catalyzed transformation of aryl halides or triflates as well as of alkenyl halides or triflates with alkenes or alkynes - being used most often. This has been combined with another Heck reaction or a cross-coupling reaction [3] such as Suzuki, Stille, and Sonogashira reactions. Moreover, several examples have been published with a Tsuji-Trost reaction [lb, 4], a carbonylation, a pericyclic or an aldol reaction as the second step. 

The scope of Suzuki-Miyaura reactions is extremely broad, covering practically all types of organic residues. The cross-coupling of arylboronic acids with aryl halides or triflates is the most... 

The Suzuki reaction (the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of aryl halides with boronic acids) is arguably one of the most versatile and at the same time also one of the most often used cross-coupling reactions in modern organic synthesis [32], Carrying out high-speed Suzuki reactions under controlled microwave conditions can today be considered almost a routine synthetic procedure, given the enormous literature precedent for this transformation [7]. 

Several microwave-assisted protocols for soluble polymer-supported syntheses have been described. Among the first examples of so-called liquid-phase synthesis were aqueous Suzuki couplings. Schotten and coworkers presented the use of polyethylene glycol (PEG)-bound aryl halides and sulfonates in these palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings [70]. The authors demonstrated that no additional phase-transfer catalyst (PTC) is needed when the PEG-bound electrophiles are coupled with appropriate aryl boronic acids. The polymer-bound substrates were coupled with 1.2 equivalents of the boronic acids in water under short-term microwave irradiation in sealed vessels in a domestic microwave oven (Scheme 7.62). Work-up involved precipitation of the polymer-bound biaryl from a suitable organic solvent with diethyl ether. Water and insoluble impurities need to be removed prior to precipitation in order to achieve high recoveries of the products. 

The group of Ley has reported on the use of palladium-doped perovskites as recyclable and reusable catalysts for Suzuki couplings [151]. Microwave-mediated cross-couplings of phenylboronic acid with aryl halides were achieved within 1 h by utilizing the supported catalyst (0.25 mol% palladium) in aqueous 2-propanol (Scheme 7.127). The addition of water was crucial as attempted transformations in non-aqueous mixtures did not proceed. 

Scheme 12.16 Microwave-assisted aqueous Suzuki couplings with PEG-bound aryl halides or sulfonates.

Today, the Suzuki cross coupling of aryl halides and arylboronic acids is also carried out in aqueous-biphasic operation starting from chlorinated derivatives instead of their more costly bromo or iodo equivalents (Equation 5.6, [39]). 

The pyrrole component can also be employed as the aryl halide in Suzuki coupling with aryl boronic acids. Thus, Chang has effected several such reactions using phenylboronic acid and halopyrroles such as 70 and 71 [60]. 

Ishikura and co-workers have done extensive work on the utility of indolylborates such as lithium triethyl(l-methylindol-2-yl)borate (136), prepared as shown from 1-methylindole, in Suzuki-like Pd-catalyzed reactions [147-157]. For example, 136 couples smoothly with aryl halides to afford 2-arylindoles 137 [147]. The amount of 2-ethyl-1-methylindole by-product, formed by ethyl group migration, can be minimized by refluxing the mixture. At room temperature 2-ethyl-1-methylindole is the major product. More recent work by Ishikura extended these couplings to the (removable) A-Boc analog of 136 with comparable yields to those obtained with 136 [157]. 

In addition, arylthiophene 70 was obtained by a one-pot Suzuki coupling of p-methoxyiodobenzene and 3-bromothiophene via an in situ boronate formation using one equivalent of the thermally stable diborane 69 [55], This method avoids the isolation of boronic acids and is advantageous when base-sensitive groups such as aldehyde, nitriles and esters are present. However, the cross-coupling yields are low when both aryl halides are electron-poor because of competitive homocoupling during the reaction. 

Like simple aryl halides, furyl halides take part in Suzuki couplings as electrophiles [41, 42]. Young and Martin coupled 2-bromofuran with 5-indolylboronic acid to prepare 5-substituted indole 37 [43]. Terashima s group cross-coupled 3-bromofuran with diethyl-(4-isoquinolyl)borane 38 to make 4-substituted isoquinoline 39 [44]. Similarly, 2- and 3-substituted isoquinolines were also synthesized in the same fashion [45]. 

Unlike simple aryl halides, a regioselective Suzuki coupling of 2,4-dibromofuran may be achieved at C(2) [46]. The coupling between 2,4-dibromofuran and pyrimidylboronic acid 40 provided furylpyrimidine 41, which was then hydrolyzed to 5-substituted uracil 42. 

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