The Suzuki Reaction

Several 100 tons have been made using this process. Further functionalisation of 62 proceeds via bromination of the methyl group, followed by substitution with a 

The Suzuki reaction has also been used extensively for the production of biaryl compounds for liquid crystals [78, 79]. 

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Bromoquinolines behave in the Suzuki reaction similarly to simple carbocyclic aryl bromides and the reaction is straightforward. Examples include 3-(3-pyridyl)quinoline (72) from 3-bromoquinoline (70) and 3-pyridylboronic acid (71) (91JOC6787) and 3-phenyl-quinoline 75 from substituted 3,7-dibromoquinoline 73 and (2-pivaloylaminophenyl)boronic acid 74 (95SC4011). Notice that the combination of potassium carbonate and ethanol resulted in debromination at the C(7) position (but the... 

Palladium-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond forming reactions like the Suzuki reac-tion as well as the Heck reaction and the Stille reaction, have in recent years gained increased importance in synthetic organic chemistry. In case of the Suzuki reaction, an organoboron compound—usually a boronic acid—is reacted with an aryl (or alkenyl, or alkynyl) halide in the presence of a palladium catalyst. 

The mechanism " of the Suzuki reaction is closely related to that of the Stille coupling reaction, and is also best described by a catalytic cycle ... 

Many types of functional groups are tolerated in a Suzuki reaction, and the yields are often good to very good. The presence of a base, e.g. sodium hydroxide or sodium/potassium carbonate, is essential for this reaction. The base is likely to be involved in more than one step of the catalytic cycle, at least in the transmetal-lation step. Proper choice of the base is important in order to obtain good results." In contrast to the Heck reaction and the Stille reaction, the Suzuki reaction does not work under neutral conditions. 

This method has been applied to a large-scale preparation of 6-bromoindole, which reacts with various arylboronic acids via the Suzuki reaction to afford 6-aryhndoles fEq. 10.50. 6-Bromo-5-methoxyindole for use in the synthesis of marine bromoindole " and 5-amino-7-ethoxycarbonyhndole for use in synthesis of l//-pyrrolo[3,2-g quina2ohne ring system fEq. 10.51 " have been prepared from the appropriate o-nitrotoluene. 

The utility of the Suzuki reaction in the challenging arena of natural product total synthesis has been explored. The constitution of bombykol (106) (see Scheme 26), a well-known pheromone, lends itself to a Suzuki coupling. Indeed, in a short stereospecific synthesis of 106, Suginome et al. demonstrated that ( )-vinylboronic acid ( )-104 can be smoothly cross-coupled with (Z)-l-pentenyl bromide [(Z)-105] 44 the configurations of both coupling partners are preserved in the C-C bond forming process. 

The Suzuki reaction was also used to prepare the polyketone since this particular reaction tolerates the subsequent step (Scheme 6.19).135 Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of aromatic diacid chlorides and bis(trimethylstannane) monomers was utilized to prepare poly(arylene ether ketone)s.136... 

Bromo-6,7-dichloro-2-quinoxalinamine (60, R = Br) gave 6,7-dichloro-3-phenyl-2-quinoxalinamine (60, R = Ph) by the Suzuki reaction [PhB(OH)a,... 

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... 

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. 

The Suzuki reaction has proved extremely versatile and has found extensive use in natural product. synthesis. " Arylboronic acids [ArB(OH)2 are the usual substrates in this reaction together with arylhalides or triflates (Ar X, X = halogen... 

Recently, Suzuki-type reactions in air and water have also been studied, first by Li and co-workers.117 They found that the Suzuki reaction proceeded smoothly in water under an atmosphere of air with either Pd(OAc)2 or Pd/C as catalyst (Eq. 6.36). Interestingly, the presence of phosphine ligands prevented the reaction. Subsequently, Suzuki-type reactions in air and water have been investigated under a variety of systems. These include the use of oxime-derived palladacycles118 and tuned catalysts (TunaCat).119 A preformed oxime-carbapalladacycle complex covalently anchored onto mercaptopropyl-modified silica is highly active (>99%) for the Suzuki reaction of p-chloroacetophenone and phenylboronic acid in water no leaching occurs and the same catalyst sample can be reused eight times without decreased activity.120... 

So far we have considered olefins and alkynes as terminating agents. Another reaction, however, was available to effect C-C coupling in the last step, the Suzuki reaction. Results were satisfactory under the conditions shown in the Table (28). 

The Suzuki reaction (the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of aryl halides with boronic acids) is arguably one of the most versatile and at the same time also one of the most often used cross-coupling reactions in modern organic synthesis [32], Carrying out high-speed Suzuki reactions under controlled microwave conditions can today be considered almost a routine synthetic procedure, given the enormous literature precedent for this transformation [7]. 

The same Suzuki couplings could also be performed under microwave-heated open-vessel reflux conditions (110 °C, 10 min) on a ten-fold larger scale, giving nearly identical yields to the closed-vessel runs [33, 35], Importantly, nearly the same yields were obtained when the Suzuki reactions were carried out in a pre-heated oil bath (150 °C) instead of using microwave heating, clearly indicating the absence of any specific or non-thermal microwave effects [34],... 

This modification proved generally applicable and the Suzuki reaction is arguably the most versatile of modern cross-coupling reactions. The reaction has, for example, attracted the interest of groups involved in high-throughput chemistry, because a large variety of boronic acids are commercially available. 

Interestingly, the Suzuki reaction worked smoothly on solid supports and high yields of a variety of products were reported under these reaction conditions (Eq. 11.22) [36]. 4-Bromo- and 4-iodobenzoic acid linked to Rink-amide TentaGel re-... 

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