Vinyl halides cross-coupling with zincs

Because the vinylzinc and vinylcadmium reagents can be prepared directly from the vinyl halides (I, Br) with zinc or cadmium metal, this route avoids cross coupling processes and provides a one-pot in situ preparation of perfluo-rovinylcopper compounds Table 7 shows examples of this method of preparation of vinylcopper reagents from the indicated cadmium or zinc reagent [145]... 

Bromination of the enol ether product with two equivalents of bromine followed by dehydrobromination afforded the Z-bromoenol ether (Eq. 79) which could be converted to the zinc reagent and cross-coupled with aryl halides [242]. Dehydrobromination in the presence of thiophenol followed by bromination/dehydrobromination affords an enol thioether [243]. Oxidation to the sulfone, followed by exposure to triethylamine in ether, resulted in dehydrobromination to the unstable alkynyl sulfone which could be trapped with dienes in situ. Alternatively, dehydrobromination of the sulfide in the presence of allylic alcohols results in the formation of allyl vinyl ethers which undergo Claisen rearrangements [244]. Further oxidation followed by sulfoxide elimination results in highly unsaturated trifluoromethyl ketonic products (Eq. 80). 

Trifluoro-2-propenyl zinc reagent can undergo palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction with aryl or vinyl halides [169,170], which provides a novel method for the introduction of the trifluoromethyl group into organic molecules (Scheme 59). The trifluoro analogue of Naproxen has been prepared by this method [169] (Scheme 60). 

With the development of the cross coupling methodology, many 6-C-substituted purines have been prepared in the past decade. Thus, 6 halopurine derivatives react with arylmagnesium halides,25 alkyl(aryl)zinc or tin reagents,26 trialkylaluminum,27 or alkylcuprates28 to give the 6-alkylpurine derivatives. Also a reverse approach based on the reaction of purine-6-zinc iodide with aryl or vinyl halides has recently been described.29 For the synthesis of 6-arylpurines, an alternative approach makes use of radical photochemical reactions of adenine derivatives with aromatic compounds,30 but this method is very unselective and for substituted benzenes, mixtures of ortho-, meta-, and para substituted derivatives were obtained. 

The most important palladium-catalyzed processes include Heck vinylation of halides and sulfonates and various cross-coupling reactions in which a nucleophilic intermediate (stannane, organo-zinc halide or boronic acid) is coupled with an electrophile (halide or sulfonate). These coupling reactions are usually restricted to arylation and vinylation because of the tendency of alkylpalladium species to undergo elimination. The pyrrole and indole rings can participate in cross-coupling as either the nucleophilic or electrophilic component. 

Cross-coupling of perfluoroalkyl halides (Fig. 35) with vinyl and allyl bromides in the presence of zinc occurs in the presence of palladium(O) or (II)... 

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