Suzuki microwave assisted

We have subsequently revisited this reaction and successfully optimized the Suzuki microwave-assisted coupling conditions using the Smith synthesizer. Several parameters were investigated, including the palladium catalysts, the reaction temperatures, and the reaction times (Table I). Optimization reactions were run in the Smith synthesizer using 50 mg of resin 7 and 6 equivalents of 4-methoxyphenylboronic acid to afford oxa-zolidinone 8. In just a few days, optimized conditions were identified that afforded the desired product in excellent yields and purities with reactions times of only 5-10 min.8... 

The Suzuki reaction has been successfully used to introduce new C - C bonds into 2-pyridones [75,83,84]. The use of microwave irradiation in transition-metal-catalyzed transformations is reported to decrease reaction times [52]. Still, there is, to our knowledge, only one example where a microwave-assisted Suzuki reaction has been performed on a quinolin-2(lH)-one or any other 2-pyridone containing heterocycle. Glasnov et al. described a Suzuki reaction of 4-chloro-quinolin-2(lff)-one with phenylboronic acid in presence of a palladium-catalyst under microwave irradiation (Scheme 13) [53]. After screening different conditions to improve the conversion and isolated yield of the desired aryl substituted quinolin-2( lff)-one 47, they found that a combination of palladium acetate and triphenylphosphine as catalyst (0.5 mol %), a 3 1 mixture of 1,2-dimethoxyethane (DME) and water as solvent, triethyl-amine as base, and irradiation for 30 min at 150 °C gave the best result. Crucial for the reaction was the temperature and the amount of water in the... 

Scheme 13 Microwave-assisted Suzuki coupling of 4-chloro-2-quinolones...

A one-pot synthesis of thiohydantoins has been developed using microwave heating [72]. A small subset of p-substituted benzaldehydes, prepared in situ from p-bromobenzaldehyde by microwave-assisted Suzuki or Negishi reactions, was reacted in one pot by reductive amination followed by cyclization with a thioisocyanate catalyzed by polystyrene-bound dimethyl-aminopyridine (PS-DMAP) or triethylamine, all carried out under microwave irradiation, to give the thiohydantoin products in up to 68% isolated yield (Scheme 16). 

Scheme 25). The introduction of greater diversity at C-2 and C-4 can be achieved by intercepting the tetrahydropyridinone intermediate in a multi-step sequence involving C-2 ammonolysis, microwave-assisted N-acylation, acid-catalyzed cyclization (to introduce diversity at C-2), treatment with POCI3, and either microwave-assisted nucleophiUc substitution or Suzuki couphng (to introduce diversity at C-4) [89]. 

Fig. 41 Representative example of microwave-assisted Suzuki couplings in fluorous phase. Reagents and conditions [Pd(dppf)Cl2], K2CO3, toluene/acetone/H20, MW 130°C, 10 min, closed system, 78%...

The first microwave-assisted Suzuki reactions involving heteroaromatic skeletons were reported in 1996 [35]. Hallberg et al. Hnked the substrates 4-iodo and 4-bromobenzoic acid to a TentaGel-Rink resin (Scheme 16). Suzuki reactions on these soUd-phase-Unked substrates were easily performed in less than 4 min using a constant microwave irradiation power (45 W) (no temperature control Standard acidic cleavage with TEA yielded the corresponding biaryls with an excellent yield. 

Solvent-free microwave-assisted Suzuki reaction on AI2O3 as soHd support using KF as base has also been described in the hterature by Villemin [38] (Scheme 20). Ligand-free Pd(OAc)2 was used as a precatalyst. In a reaction... 

AT-acetyltryptamines could be obtained via microwave-assisted transition-metal-catalyzed reactions on resin bound 3-[2-(acetylamino)ethyl]-2-iodo-lH-indole-5-carboxamide. While acceptable reaction conditions for the application of microwave irradiation have been identified for Stille heteroaryla-tion reactions, the related Suzuki protocol on the same substrate gave poor results, since at a constant power of 60 W, no full conversion (50-60%) of resin-bound 3-[2-(acetylamino)ethyl]-2-iodo-lH-indole-5-carboxamide could be obtained even when two consecutive cross-coupling reaction cycles (involving complete removal of reagents and by-products by washing off the resin) were used (Scheme 36). Also under conventional heating at 110 °C, and otherwise identical conditions, the Suzuki reactions proved to be difficult since two cross-coupling reaction cycles of 24 h had to be used to achieve full conversion. 

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 ... 

Table 1 Yields of microwave assisted, Pd/C catalyzed, Suzuki-Miyaura cross-...

General microwave assisted Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling procedure... 

A recent publication by the group of Barbarella has disclosed the rapid preparation of poorly soluble unsubstituted and modified a-quinque- and sexithiophenes by the extensive use of bromination/iodination steps and microwave-assisted Suzuki and Sonogashira cross-couplings (Scheme 6.16) [42]. Suzuki reactions were either carried out under solvent-free conditions on a strongly basic potassium fluoride/ alumina support for the synthesis of soluble oligothiophenes, or in solution phase for the preparation of the rather insoluble a-quinque- and sexithiophenes. In both cases, 5 mol% of [l,l -bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene]dichloropalladium(II)... 

The synthesis of fully conjugated semiconducting para-phenylene ladder polymers by microwave-assisted palladium-mediated double Suzuki and Stille-type reactions has been demonstrated by Scherf and coworkers (Scheme 6.27) [58], The procedure, which yields polymeric material in ca. 10 min, has no adverse effects on the quality of the polymers and displays a high degree of reproducibility. Compared... 

Further examples of microwave-assisted Suzuki cross-couplings involving supported substrates/catalysts or fluorous-phase reaction conditions are described in Chapter 7. 

For the solution-phase preparation of functionalized tropanylidenes, the authors simply dispensed solutions of the bromo N-H precursor in 1,2-dichloroethane (DCE) into a set of microwave vials, added the aldehydes (3 equivalents) and a solution of sodium triacetoxy borohydride in dimethylformamide (2 equivalents), and subjected the mixtures to microwave irradiation for 6 min at 120 °C. Quenching the reductive amination with water and subsequent concentration allowed a microwave-assisted Suzuki reaction (Section 6.1.2) to be performed directly on the crude products [295]. 

Combs and coworkers have presented a study on the solid-phase synthesis of oxa-zolidinone antimicrobials by microwave-mediated Suzuki coupling [38], A valuable oxazolidinone scaffold was coupled to Bal resin (PS-PEG resin with a 4-formyl-3,5-dimethoxyphenoxy linker) to afford the corresponding resin-bound secondary amine (Scheme 7.18). After subsequent acylation, the resulting intermediate was transformed to the corresponding biaryl compound by microwave-assisted Suzuki coupling. Cleavage with trifluoroacetic acid/dichloromethane yielded the desired target structures. 

In closely related work, similar solid-phase chemistry was employed by the same research group to prepare biaryl urea compound libraries by microwave-assisted Suzuki couplings followed by cleavage from the resin with amines (Scheme 7.47) [18]. The above described procedure enabled the generation of large biaryl urea compound libraries employing a simple domestic microwave oven. 

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. 

In a more recent study, Wang and coworkers have discussed microwave-assisted Suzuki couplings employing a reusable polymer-supported palladium complex [141]. The supported catalyst was prepared from commercial Merrifield polystyrene resin under ultrasound Bonification. In a typical procedure for biaryl synthesis, 1 mmol of the requisite aryl bromide together with 1.1 equivalents of the phenyl-boronic acid, 2.5 equivalents of potassium carbonate, and 10 mg of the polystyrene-... 

A microwave-assisted Suzuki reaction performed in a microreactor device has been discussed in Section 4.5 [153]. More examples of microwave-assisted transformations involving immobilized catalysts are described in ref. [154]. 

The first examples of microwave-assisted cross-couplings with organozinc compounds were recently reported [47]. In addition, the first high-speed synthesis of aryl boronates (Suzuki coupling reactants) has been performed under the action of single-mode irradiation with an in-situ-generated palladium carbene catalyst [48],... 

Several microwave-assisted procedures have been described for soluble polymer-supported syntheses. Polyethylene glycol) (PEG)-supported aryl bromides have been shown to undergo rapid palladium(0)-catalyzed Suzuki couplings with aryl boronic acids in water (Scheme 12.16) [63], The reaction proceeded without organic cosolvent... 

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

Baxendale IR, Griffiths-Jones CM, Ley SV, Tranmer GK (2006b) Microwave-assisted Suzuki coupling reactions with an encapsulated palladium catalyst for batch and continuous-flow transformations. Chem Eur J 12 4407-4416 Baxendale IR, Deeley J, Griffiths-Jones CM, Ley SV, Saaby S, Tranmer GK (2006c) A flow process for the multi-step synthesis of the alkaloid natural product oxomaritidine a new paradigm for molecular assembly. J Chem Soc Chem Commun 2566-2568... 

He, P. and Heswell, S.J. and Fletcher, P.D.I. (2004). Microwave-assisted Suzuki reactions in a continuous flow capillary reactor. Applied Catalysis A General, 274, 111-114. 

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