Terminal palladium® bromide

Terminal propargylic bromides 5.12, mesylates, and phosphates are also transformed into palladium complexes that are hydrogenolyzed to allenes with a high regioselectivity. LiEt BH is the best reagent for this reaction [MT3] (Figure 5.7). However, 1,2-disubstituted alkynes lead to mixtures [MT3]. 

Kotschy et al. also reported a palladium/charcoal-catalyzed Sono-gashira reaction in aqueous media. In the presence of Pd/C, Cul, PPI13, and z -Pr2NH base, terminal alkynes smoothly reacted with aryl bromides or chlorides, such as 2-pyridyl chloride, 4-methylphenyl bromide, and so on, to give the expected alkyne products in dimethyl-acetamide (DMA)-H20 solvent. Wang et al. reported an efficient cross-coupling of terminal alkynes with aromatic iodides or bromides in the presence of palladium/charcoal, potassium fluoride, cuprous iodide, and triph-enylphosphine in aqueous media (THF/H20, v/v, 3/1) at 60°C.35 The palladium powder is easily recovered and is effective for six consecutive runs with no significant loss of catalytic activity. 

A palladium catalyst with a less electron-rich ligand, 2,2-dipyridyl-methylamine-based palladium complexes (4.2), is effective for coupling of aryl iodides or bromides with terminal alkynes in the presence of pyrrolidine and tetrabutylammonium acetate (TBAB) at 100°C in water.37 However, the reactions were shown to be faster in NMP solvent than in water under the reaction conditions. Palladium-phosphinous acid (POPd) was also reported as an effective catalyst for the Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction of aryl alkynes with aryl iodides, bromides, or chlorides in water (Eq. 4.18).38... 

Scheme 203 provides a methodology for the conversion of aryl bromides onto 4-aryl-l,2,3-triazoles. In the given example, palladium-copper catalyzed substitution of the bromine atom in indole 1226 by trimethylsilylacetylene provides intermediate 1227. Hydrolysis of the trimethylsilyl protecting group releases terminal alkyne 1228, isolated... 

Terminal allenes.1 A synthesis of 1,2-dienes (3) from an aldehyde or a ketone involves addition of ethynylmagnesium bromide followed by reaction of the adduct with methyl chloroformate. The product, a 3-methoxycarbonyloxy-l-alkyne (2), can be reduced to an allene by transfer hydrogenolysis with ammonium formate catalyzed by a zero-valent palladium complex of 1 and a trialkylphosphine. The choice of solvent is also important. Best results are obtained with THF at 20-30° or with DMF at 70°. 

In 1997, Backvall and Jonasson published a procedure for the 1,2-oxidation of terminal allenes 7 [5]. In this case the reaction conditions were chosen so that the (vinyl)palladium complex equilibrates back to the allene complex. Using bromide instead of chloride as a nucleophile, the 2-bromo-jt-allyl complex 9 is the major intermediate present in the reaction mixture. A catalytic reaction was developed with the use of 5 mol% palladium acetate and p-benzoquinone (BQ) as terminal oxidant (Scheme 17.5). 

The palladium-catalyzed arylation and alkenylation of terminal alkynes with aryl or alkenyl hahdes in presence of a copper(l) co-catalyst is called Sonogashira reaction. In the same way as in the other cross-coupling reactions described before, it is possible to immobihze the alkyne or the aromatic bromides, iodides or triflates on sohd supports (Scheme 3.15). 

The first direct coupling of terminal alkynes with aryl iodides or bromides without palladium was reported by Wang and Li in 2006.135 Silver iodide and triphenylphos-phane in polar solvents proved to be the best catalyst combination, while potassium carbonate proved to be the better base, giving diarylacetylenes in high yields (Table 10.8). 

Terminal alkynes can be alkenylated by alkenyl triflates (bromides, iodides) in the presence of catalytic amounts of a palladium(O) complex (or a precursor thereof) and usually an additional substoichiometric amount of copper(I) iodide (Cul), and they can be arylated by aryl triflates (bromides, iodides). These reactions are called Cacchi coupling reactions if triflate reagents are employed, and Sonogashira-Hagihara coupling reactions if halides are used. 

In a related transformation, a palladium-benzothiazole carbene complex has been reported to efficiently catalyze the arylation of allylic alcohols [79]. Carrying the reaction in an ionic liquid, the authors could couple aryl bromides and activated aryl chlorides with terminal allylic alcohols with remarkable regioselectivity (Scheme 10). The interest of this methodology was also highlighted by its application to the synthesis of three intermediates in the synthesis of medicinal products [80-82],... 

Ellman utilized the Suzuki coupling twice between a support-bound vinyl bromide and an alkyl 9-BBN derivative in a solid-phase synthesis of E- and F-series prostaglandins. The Suzuki reaction was performed in situ, with the hydroboration of a terminal olefin being followed by the palladium-mediated step. This sequence is attractive in library synthesis because of the wide range of suitable commercially available alkenes. The inspiration behind this chemistry was the solution-phase work of Johnson and Braun, where the couplings of 35 with 2-iodo-4-(silyloxy)cyclopent-2-enone 36 went well at room temperature with PdCljCdppO-AsPhj as catalyst (Scheme 41). The modular chemistry demonstrated in this paper was clearly amenable to adaptation to a solid-phase strategy. 

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