Suzuki atropisomer selective

Restricted rotation about the biaryl axis as a result of bulky substituents leads to the existence of atropisomers. Depending upon the degree of steric hindrance due to the ortho substituents, three or four substituents are needed to produce a sufficient barrier to rotation at room temperature. This particular form of axial chirality is not generally resistant to heat. To produce acceptable yields of hindered biaryls under Suzuki conditions, high temperatures (60-110 °C) [78, 85] and reaction times of several hours are required. In atropisomer-selective reactions, these conditions would be deleterious to the discrimination between dia-stereomeric transition states and could racemize the biaryls formed. As a consequence, it is necessary to carry out such Suzuki reactions at ambient temperature. Recently, conditions employing Pd(OAc)2 and 95 % ethanol were used to generate mono-ortho-substituted biaryls at 20 °C (Eq. (54)) [86],... 

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