SYNTHESIS 2-triflate

Coupling of Vinyl Phosphonates and Triflates to Organometallic Reagents - vinyl phosphates review Synthesis 1992, 333,... 

Carboxylic acids are produced in water. Selection of solvents is crucial and the carbonylation of the enol triflate 480 can be carried out in aqueous DMF, and that of the aryl triflate 481 in aqueous DMSO using dppf as a ligand[328,334]. The carbonylation of the enol triflate 482 to form the a, 0. unsaturated acid 483 using dppf as a ligand in aqueous DMF has been applied in the total synthesis of multifunctionalized glycinueclepin[335]. 

The coupling of the enol triflate 703 with the vinylstannane 704[397] has been applied to the synthesis of glycinoeclepin[576]. The introduction of a (Z)-propenyl group in the / -lactam derivative 705 proceeds by use of tri-2-furylphosphine[577]. However, later a smooth reaction to give the propenyl-iactam in 82% yield was achieved simply by treating with Pd(OAc)2 in NMP or CH2CI2 for 3-5 min without addition of LiCI and the phosphine ligand[578]. 

The intramolecular coupling of organostannanes is applied to macrolide synthesis. In the zearalenone synthesis, no cyclization was observed between arylstannane and alkenyl iodide. However, intramolecular coupling take.s place between the alkenylstannane and aryl iodide in 706. A similar cyclization is possible by the reaction of the alkenylstannane 707 with enol triflate[579]. The coupling was applied to the preparation of the bicyclic 1,3-diene system 708[580]. 

Aryl, heteroaryl, and alkenyl cyanides are prepared by the reaction of halides[656-658] or triflates[659,660] with KCN or LiCN in DMF, HMPA, and THF. Addition of crown ethers[661] and alumina[662] promotes efficient aryl and alkenyl cyanation. lodobenzene is converted into benzonitrile (794) by the reaction of trimethylsiiyl cyanide in EtiN as a solvent. No reaction takes place with aryl bromides and chlorides[663]. The reaction was employed in an estradiol synthesis. The 3-hydroxy group in 796 was derived from the iodide 795 by converting it into a cyano group[664]. 

Lewis acids such as zinc triflate[16] and BF3[17] have been used to effect the reaction of indole with jV-proiected aziridine-2-carboxylate esters. These alkylations by aziridines constitute a potential method for the enantioselective introduction of tryptophan side-chains in a single step. (See Chapter 13 for other methods of synthesis of tryptophans.)... 

Tri.-nethylsilyl triflate (TMSOTf), PhSCH, CF3COOH. These conditions also cleave the following protective groups used in peptide synthesis (MeO)Z-, Bn-, Ts-, CI2C6H3CH2-, BOM (benzyloxymethyl)-, Mts-, MBS-, r-Bu-SR, Ad-SR, but not a BnSR, Acm, or Arg(N02) group. The rate of cleavage is reported to be faster than with TfOH/TFA. 

Oxo-bridged diiodonium triflate [Zefirov s reagent), a useful reagent for the synthesis of triflate esters and iodonium salts, can be prepared by the treatment of lodosobenzene with triflic anhydride [92] or by the reaction of lodobenzene diacetate with tnflic acid [93] (equation 44). 

Tnflrc anhydride is a useful reagent for the preparation of covalent triflate esters from alcohols, ketones, and other organic substrates [66] In many cases, very reactive triflates can be generated m situ and subjected to subsequent transformation without isolation [94, 95, 96, 97] Typical examples are cyclization of amides into dihydroisoqumolines (equation 45) and synthesis of Al-hydroxy-a-amino acid denvatives (equation 46) via the intermediate covalent triflates... 

Trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate (trimethylsilyl triflate) is the most synthetically useful representative of the family of trialkylsilyl perfluoroalkane-sulfonates (for a review, see reference 101) This reagent is commercially available or can be prepared easily by the reaction of chlorotrimethylsilane and triflic acid [101] It has wide application in organic synthesis as an excellent silylating reagent... 

Another triflate ester that recently has found growing application in organic synthesis is commercially available trimethylsilylmethyl trifluoromethanesul fonate. This powerful alkylating reagent can be used for the synthesis of various methylides by an alkylation-desilylation sequence A representative example is the generation and subsequent trapping by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of indolium methanides from the corresponding indole derivatives and trimethylsilylmethyl trifluoromethanesulfonate [108] (equation 54)... 

A large variety of salts of triflic acid formed both from metals and nonmetals are known Many of these salts are versatile reagents for organic synthesis because of such properties of the tnflate anion as very low nucleophilicity and low coordinating ability However, despite low nucleophilicity, the triflate anion can combine with carbocationic intermediates under appropriate conditions to form triflate esters [116, 117, II8. ... 

Triflates of titanium and tin are effective catalysts for various condensations of carbonyl compounds [I2I, 122, 123, 124, 125] Claisen and Dieckmann type condensations between ester functions proceed under mild conditions in the presence of dichlorobis(trifluoromethanesulfonyloxy)titaiiiuin(rV) and a tertiary amine (equations 59 and 60) These highly regio- and stereoselective condensations were used successfully m the synthesis of carbohydrates [122]... 

In contrast to the previous method (equation 70), reaction 72 made possible the preparation of iodonium triflates from functionalized acetylenes bearing an electron-withdrawing group such as tosyl, cyano, or carbonyl [138]. Of special interest is the application of this method to the synthesis of the bisiodonium acetylenic salt [139, 140] (equation 73). 

Transition metal-catalyzed synthesis of hetarylamines and hetaryl ethers from triflates and aryl/hetaryl halides or heterocyclic amines 98AG(E)2046. 

The Stille coupling of an aryl triflate normally calls for the addition of at least one equivalent of LiCl. Presumably, the transmetallation is facilitated by replacing triflate with CP at the palladium intermediate generated from oxidative addition. As Stille demonstrated in 1988, 4-quinolinyl triflate 100 was coupled with phenylstannane 101 in the presence of Pd(Ph3P)4 and LiCl in refluxing 1,4-dioxane to furnish biaryl 102, which was used as an intermediate for the first total synthesis of antibiotic amphimedine (88JA4051). 

The original Sonogashira reaction uses copper(l) iodide as a co-catalyst, which converts the alkyne in situ into a copper acetylide. In a subsequent transmeta-lation reaction, the copper is replaced by the palladium complex. The reaction mechanism, with respect to the catalytic cycle, largely corresponds to the Heck reaction.Besides the usual aryl and vinyl halides, i.e. bromides and iodides, trifluoromethanesulfonates (triflates) may be employed. The Sonogashira reaction is well-suited for the synthesis of unsymmetrical bis-2xy ethynes, e.g. 23, which can be prepared as outlined in the following scheme, in a one-pot reaction by applying the so-called sila-Sonogashira reaction ... 

Of particular synthetic importance is the coupling of aryl- and hetarylboronic acids to aryl- and hetaryl halides (or triflates), allowing for a convenient synthesis of biphenyls, even sterically demanding derivatives such as 14, hetaryl phenyls and Zj/ -hetaryls. With appropriately disubstituted aromatic substrates, the Suzuki coupling reaction can be applied in the synthesis of polyphenylene materials. 

The second element of general importance in the synthesis of a task-specific ionic liquid is the source of the functional group that is to be incorporated. Key to success here is the identification of a substrate containing two functional groups with different reactivities, one of which allows the attachment of the substrate to the core, and the other of which either is the functional group of interest or is modifiable to the group of interest. Functionalized alkyl halides are commonly used in this capacity, although the triflate esters of functionalized alcohols work as well. 

In an extension of this work, the Shibasaki group developed the novel transformation 48—>51 shown in Scheme 10.25c To rationalize this interesting structural change, it was proposed that oxidative addition of the vinyl triflate moiety in 48 to an asymmetric palladium ) catalyst generated under the indicated conditions affords the 16-electron Pd+ complex 49. Since the weakly bound triflate ligand can easily dissociate from the metal center, a silver salt is not needed. Insertion of the coordinated alkene into the vinyl C-Pd bond then affords a transitory 7t-allylpalladium complex 50 which is captured in a regio- and stereocontrolled fashion by acetate ion to give the optically active bicyclic diene 51 in 80% ee (89% yield). This catalytic asymmetric synthesis by a Heck cyclization/ anion capture process is the first of its kind. 

The key step in a short and efficient synthesis of pleraplysillin-1 (127) is the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of vinylstannane 125 with vinyl triflate 126 (see Scheme 33). This synthesis is noteworthy in two respects. First, vinyl triflate 126 is generated regio-specifically from the kinetic enolate arising from a conjugate reduction of enone 124 the conjugate reduction of an enone is, in fact, a... 

For a review of vinyl triflate chemistry, see Ritter, K. Synthesis 1993, 735. 

The reaction processes shown in Scheme 8 not only accomplish the construction of an oxepane system but also furnish a valuable keto function. The realization that this function could, in an appropriate setting, be used to achieve the annulation of the second oxepane ring led to the development of a new strategy for the synthesis of cyclic ethers the reductive cyclization of hydroxy ketones (see Schemes 9 and 10).23 The development of this strategy was inspired by the elegant work of Olah 24 the scenario depicted in Scheme 9 captures its key features. It was anticipated that activation of the Lewis-basic keto function in 43 with a Lewis acid, perhaps trimethylsilyl triflate, would induce nucleophilic attack by the proximal hydroxyl group to give an intermediate of the type 44. 

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