Suzuki coupling indoles

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). 

The first example of microwave-promoted solid-phase methodology in heterocyclic chemistry was the arylation of thiophene and indole via Suzuki couplings on TentaGel S RAM resin, as demonstrated by Hallberg and coworkers in 1996, before temperature- and pressure-controlled microwave instruments were even available [189]. Three years later Schotten and coworkers presented analogous but aqueous Suzuki couplings of 5-bromo-thiophene anchored to PEG soluble support via a carboxylic function at its C-2 position [116]. Unfortunately, this work was performed in a do-... 

Another example of a one-pot indole synthesis, which proceeds through a Heck carbonylation and a Suzuki coupling, is shown below. The reaction conditions are similar to the previous example however microwave heating is employed [174] (Scheme 6.54). 

The Fukuyama indole synthesis involving radical cyclization of 2-alkenylisocyanides was extended by the author to allow preparation of2,3-disubstituted derivatives <00S429>. In this process, radical cyclization of 2-isocyanocinnamate (119) yields the 2-stannylindole 120, which upon treatment with iodine is converted into the 2-iodoindole 121. These N-unprotected 2-iodoindoles can then undergo a variety of palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions such as reaction with terminal acetylenes, terminal olefins, carbonylation and Suzuki coupling with phenyl borate to furnish the corresponding 2,3-disubstituted indoles. 

Another Suzuki coupling reaction was described by Zhang et al., to produce arylindoles 116a and b, using solid-phase synthesis [76]. The synthesis was achieved by palladium-mediated coupling/intramolecular indole cycli-zation of resin-bound 2-trimethylsilylindole 117, Scheme 29. 

Snieckus described short syntheses of ungerimine (121) and hippadine by Suzuki couplings of boronic acid 118 with 7-bromo-5-(methylsulfonyloxy)indoline (116) and 7-iodoindoline (117), respectively [130]. Cyclization and aerial oxidation also occur. Treatment of 119 with Red-Al gave ungerimine (121) in 54% yield, and oxidation of 120 with DDQ afforded hippadine in 90% yield. Indoline 116 was readily synthesized from 5-hydroxyindole in 65% overall yield by mesylation, reduction of the indole double bond, and bromination. Indoline 117 was prepared in 67% yield from N-acetylindoline by thallation-iodination and basic hydrolysis. 

Martin effected the synthesis of several 3,5-diarylated indoles by a tandem Stille-Suzuki sequence [131]. The latter reaction involves exposure of 3-(3-pyridyl)-5-bromo-l-(4-toluenesulfonyl)indole with arylboronic acids (aryl = 3-thienyl, 2-furyl, phenyl) under typical conditions to give the expected products in 86-98% yield [131], Carrera engaged 6- and 7-bromoindole in Pd-catalyzed couplings with 4-fluoro- and 4-methoxyphenylboronic acids to prepare 6- and 7-(4-fluorophenyl)indole (90% and 74% yield) and 6-(4-methoxyphenyl)indole (73% yield) [29]. Banwell and co-workers employed 7-bromoindole in a Suzuki coupling with 3,4-dioxygenated phenylboronic acids en route to the synthesis of Amaryllidaceae alkaloids [132], Yields of 7-arylated indoles are 93-99%. Moody successfully coupled 4-bromoindole... 

The medicinal importance of 2-aryltryptamines led Chu and co-workers to develop an efficient route to these compounds (130) via a Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling of protected 2-bromotryptamines 128 with arylboronic acids 129 [137]. Several Suzuki conditions were explored and only a partial listing of the arylboronic acids is shown here. In addition, boronic acids derived from naphthalene, isoquinoline, and indole were successfully coupled with 128. The C-2 bromination of the protected tryptamines was conveniently performed using pyridinium hydrobromide perbromide (70-100%). 2-Phenyl-5-(and 7-)azaindoles have been prepared via a Suzuki coupling of the corresponding 2-iodoazaindoles [19]. 

Indolyltriflates have been used in Suzuki couplings by Mdrour [138, 139]. Thus, the readily available l-(phenylsulfonyl)indol-2-yl triflate (131) smoothly couples with arylboronic acids in 65-91% yield. Similarly, Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling of phenylboronic acid with l-benzyl-2-carbomethoxyindol-3-yl triflate affords the 3-phenyl derivative (62% yield) [139]. 

Adapting Gribble s method for synthesizing indol-3-yl triflate [37], Mdrour et al converted 2-formyl- l-(phenylsulfonyl)- l//-indole (31) to indol-2-yl triflate 32 in two steps. 32 was subsequently coupled with benzofuryl-2-boronic acid to furnish 2-benzofurylindole 33 [38, 39]. In another case, 2-bromoacetaniline was coupled with 2-formyl-3-furylboronic acid 35 [40]. The resulting Suzuki coupling adduct underwent a spontaneous cyclization, forming tricyclic furo[2,3-c]quinoline 36. 

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]. 

Equation 5.2. describes a transformation, where the palladium catalysed Suzuki coupling was used to establish the first carbon-carbon bond between an indole ring and an acetophenone moiety en route to benzo[c]carbazole. The carbacycle was established in a potassium er -butoxide mediated photochemical transformation.2... 

The bromo derivative of A -mcthylsuccinimide did also undergo Suzuki coupling when treated with naphthylboronic acid in the presence of palladium acetate, triphenylphosphine and potassium carbonate (6.3.). The coupled product was deprotected under the reaction conditions and an indole derivative was isolated in good yield, which was successfully converted into the hexacyclic naphthopyrrolo[3,4-c]carbazole structure. Using the analogous trimethylstannyl-naphthalene derivative and optimised Stille coupling conditions the desired product was isolated only in 56% yield.5... 

Tn addition to arylthiazoles, heteroarylthiazoles also have been synthesized using halothiazoles and heteroarylboronic acids. Suzuki coupling of 2-bromothiazole and 5-indolylboronic led to 5-substituted indole 32 [24]. The Suzuki coupling of 2,4-dibromothiazole with 2,4-di-f-butoxy-5-pyrimidineboronic acid (33) resulted in selective helreoarylation at the 2-position to give pyrimidylthiazole 34 although the yield was low [25-27]. 

C-Arylation of indoles can be accomplished by means of palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions, such as the Suzuki coupling (Entry 7, Table 15.7) or Stille coupling with resin-bound 2-bromoindoles [88] or 5-bromoindoles [75]. 2-Iodoindoles have been prepared on polystyrene by iododesilylation of 2-silylindoles with NIS (Entry 8, Table 15.7), and these can be C-arylated with arylboronic acids [73]. 

Several other examples of the utility of Pd-mediated reactions in synthesis of aryl and vinyl derivatives of pyrrole and indole were reported. Schmidt and coworkers examined arylation of 1-vinylpyrroles under Heck conditions. Reaction took place at the A-vinyl group. While the parent compound gave a mixture of -and -arylation, 2,3-dialkyl-1-vinylpyrroles preferred -substitution. <95RCB767> Grieb and Ketcha used Suzuki coupling conditions to prepare several 1-... 

A Suzuki coupling of 5-chloro-2-methyl-6-phenyl-2H-pyridazin-3-one (10) ultimately led to diazino-fused indole 11 and cinnoline 12 and allowed access to a novel pyrimidoisoquinoline ring system in a one-pot fashion <02T10137>. Mn(II)-azido networks of the type [Mn(N3)2(L)] like 13 with new 3-D topologies were obtained using both pyridazine and pyrimidine ligands <02CC64>. 

Indole-fused, or indole-benzo-fused azepinone derivatives have attracted synthetic attention and examples include the preparation of 85 in 84% yield from 84 by intramolecular Heck coupling [01SL848], as well as the preparation of paullone 87 (a CDK inhibitor) by cyclisation of 86 under basic conditions borylation/Suzuki coupling technology was used to access 86 [02JOC1199]. Acid-catalysed cyclisation with polyphosphoric acid was used to prepare the racemic reduced azepino[4,5-6]indoles 92a,b from the precursors 91, which were obtained in turn from CDl-mediated coupling of 88 and 89, followed by reduction of the amide with lithium aluminium hydride [01H1455]. 

Finally, ortho- 2,2-dibromovinyl)-aniline or -acetanilide can successfully be applied in a sequential cyclizing amination-cross coupling reaction with diethyl phosphonate to furnish the indolyl phosphonic ester 136 or the N-acetyl 2-aryl indole 137 as recently shown by Bisseret and coworkers [ 105] (Scheme 50). This sequence can be also performed with corresponding phenol derivatives furnishing benzofurans. For the N-acetyl 2-aryl indole 137 it can be shown that the Suzuki coupling occurs prior to the intramolecular animation as a consequence of the gradual difference in reactivity between trans-and czs-carbon-bromine bonds. 

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