Vinyl iodides chromium chloride

The Ni(ii)/Cr(n)-mediated coupling reaction employs an excess of chromium(ii) chloride and a catalytic amount of nickel(n) chloride (0.1 %). The preferred solvent for this reaction is usually DMF, although THF, DMF/THF, or DMF/Me2S may also be used. The ability to activate the vinyl iodide (or related) substrate at ambient... 

A plausible mechanism accounting for the catalytic role of nickel(n) chloride has been advanced (see Scheme 4).10 The process may be initiated by reduction of nickel(n) chloride to nickel(o) by two equivalents of chromium(n) chloride, followed by oxidative addition of the vinyl iodide (or related substrate) to give a vinyl nickel(n) reagent. The latter species may then undergo transmetala-tion with a chromium(m) salt leading to a vinyl chromium(m) reagent which then reacts with the aldehyde. The nickel(n) produced in the oxidative addition step reenters the catalytic cycle. 

Chromium adds oxidatively not only to vinylic iodides, but also to allylic, aryl, and alkynyl iodides, as well as to CHE (see Chap ter 13).18 The corresponding triflates can be employed equally well. On the other hand the reactivity of bromides and chlorides is usually too limited. Reaction is carried out in the polar aprotic sol vent DMF because this is capable of dissolving both of the salts, and homogeneous conditions accelerate the reaction. 

Lactone carbaldehyde 143 was treated with vinyl iodide in the presence of chromium(ll) chloride and Me2SO to provide allyl alcohol 144 in 59% yield as a 2 1 diastereomeric mixture (Scheme 26 major isomer shown) <2000CC631>. Further deprotection, conversion into cyclic carbonate, and final treatment with dimethyltitanocene provided /rawr-fused bicyclic lactone 145 in 25% yield. 

Vinyl halides represent yet another important class of intermediates in the conversion of ketones to alkenes. The most widely applied conditions for the conversion of ketones into vinyl halides are those developed by Barton et a/. ° for the conversion of 3p-acetoxyandrost-5-ene-17-one into 3P-hydroxyandrosta-5,16-diene (Scheme 44). These conditions of vinyl halide formation and subsequent reduction have been useful in a number of steroid systems for the introduction of a A -carbon-carbon double bond and have been shown to be compatible with such functional groups as alcohols, isolated double bonds and acetals. The scope of vinyl iodide formation from hydrazones has been studied by Pross and Stemhell, and recently the original reaction conditions were improved by using sterically hindered guanidine bases rather than triethylamine. Haloalkenes have also been prepared from the corresponding ketones by treatment with iodoform and chromium chloride or with phosphorous penta-halides. ... 

In 1983, Nozaki, Takai, Hiyama, and their coworkers disclosed that vinyl and aryl iodides or bromides are reduced with chromium(n) chloride, and that the resulting organochromium(in) species react smoothly with a host of aldehydes to give allylic or benzylic alcohols in excellent yields.6 As shown in Scheme 1, the chromium(n) chloride-mediated carbonyl addition can be conducted efficiently at... 

Reaction of vinyl or aryl iodides or bromides with chromium(II) chloride produces chromium(III) species that react chemoselectively with aldehydes to give allylic or benzylic alcohols, respectively, in high yields. 

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