Vinyliodonium salt

In order to strengthen evidence in favour of the proposition that concerted inplane 5n2 displacement reactions can occur at vinylic carbon the kinetics of reactions of some /3-alkyl-substituted vinyliodonium salts (17) with chloride ion have been studied. Substitution and elimination reactions with formation of (21) and (22), respectively, compete following initial formation of a chloro-A, -iodane reaction intermediate (18). Both (17) and (18) undergo bimolecular substitution by chloride ion while (18) also undergoes a unimolecular (intramolecular) jS-elimination of iodoben-zene and HCl. The [21]/[22] ratios for reactions of (18a-b) increase with halide ion concentration, and there is no evidence for formation of the -isomer of (Z)-alkene (21) iodonium ion (17d) forms only the products of elimination, (22d) and (23). 

Vinyliodonium salts.3 Reaction of vinylsilanes (2) with iodosylbenzene catalyzed by BF3 etherate results in vinyliodonium tetrafluoroborates (3) in generally... 

Since the 1983 publication of the chapter on halonium ions in The Chemistry of Functional Groups, Supplement D some of the most significant developments in halonium ion chemistry have been associated with the alkynyliodonium and vinyliodonium salts. Much new information has been generated, and because of the considerable promise of alkynyl- and... 

The treatment of alkynyliodonium salts not amenable to cyclopentene formation with sodium azide in methanol affords vinyliodonium salts and/or enol ethers (equation 107)". Enol ether formation also occurs when glyme is employed as the solvent (equation 108)". Finally, regeneration of the vinylidene-iodonium ylide, PhC (N3)=C—IPh, from (Z)-(/ -azido-/ -phenylvinyl)phenyliodonium tosylate with potassium J-butoxide in glyme likewise affords an enol ether (equation 109). 

Vinyliodonium ions, 35 and 36, are hypervalent iodine species in which one or two alkenyl ligands are bound to a positively charged iodine(III) atom. Although they are reactive with nucleophilic reagents, they are less labile than alkynyliodonium ions, and stable halide salts of vinyliodonium ions can be prepared. The first vinyliodonium compounds [i.e. (a, / -dichlorovinyl)iodonium salts] were synthesized by the treatment of silver acetylide-silver chloride complexes with (dichloroiodo)arenes or l-(dichloroiodo)-2-chloroethene in the presence of water (equation 152). The early work was summarized by Willgerodt in 1914115. This is, of course, a limited and rather impractical synthetic method, and some time elapsed before the chemistry of vinyliodonium salts was developed. Contemporary synthetic approaches to vinyliodonium compounds include the treatment of (1) vinylsilanes and vinylstannanes with 23-iodanes, (2) terminal alkynes with x3-iodanes, (3) alkynyliodonium salts with nucleophilic reagents and (4) alkynyliodonium salts with dienes. 

The preparation of vinyliodonium salts from vinyl(trichloro)stannanes with (dichloroiodo)arenes was also explored during this period (equations 156 and 157)119 122. By this approach, the vinyliodonium compounds are available in unexceptional yields as the hexachlorostannate salts other counterions (X , BF4 ) can be introduced by anion metathesis. 

While vinylsilanes and -stannanes have been used primarily for the synthesis of vinyliodonium salts with one or two / -alkyl substituents in the vinyl moiety, the treatment of alkynes with oxyiodanes permits the introduction of oxygen functionality at jft-carbon. The conversion of terminal alkynes with [hydroxy(tosyloxy) iodo]benzene (HTIB) to alkynyliodonium tosylates (equation 8) and/or (j5-tosyloxyvinyl)iodonium tosylates [TsOC (R)=CHiPh, "OTs R = n-Pr, n-Bu, n-C5Hn, i-Pr, i-Bu] (equation 9), depending on the size of R, has already been discussed8,11. In at least three cases, E Z mixtures were... 

As discussed in Section II.D, the ability of alkynyliodonium salts to undergo Michael additions with nucleophilic reagents provides access to / -functionalized vinyliodonium salts (equation 177). However, this approach will not succeed unless the intermediate vinylidene-iodonium ylides can be captured by protonation. Thus, the best results are obtained when the nucleophile bears an acidic hydrogen or when the reactions are conducted in an acidic medium. 

These reactions invariably afford -substituted vinyliodonium salts in the Z-configura-tion (i.e. anti-introduction of the nucleophile and proton) and are generally regarded as nucleophilic additions. However, it seems plausible in the case of HX in methanol that addition is initiated by protonation of the triple bond. 

Diels-Alder reactions of alkynyl(phenyl)iodonium triflates (i.e. containing electron-withdrawing groups in the alkynyl moiety) and [bis(phenyliodonium)] ethyne ditrifiate have been employed for the synthesis of cyclic vinyliodonium salts (equations 143 and 144)17,41. The availability of such compounds offers considerable potential for the elaboration of densely functionalized cyclic molecules. 

Structures of vinyliodonium salts that have appeared in the literature since 1945 are shown in Table 8. For compounds that were reported earlier, the reader is directed to Willgerodt s monograph115 and to the compilation of polyvalent iodine compounds by Beringer and Gindler141. Table 8 includes a number of vinyliodonium ions whose stereoiso-meric configurations (i.e. is or Z) have been reported. Most of these assignments are based on NMR information and require some discussion. 

TABLE. 9 Single-crystal X-ray studies of vinyliodonium salts... 

The vinyliodonium salts 52,55 and 56 exist as head-to-tail dimers in the solid state. The dimeric unit of 52 exhibits nearly equidistant intra- and intermodular P—0--T contacts and has been described as a pseudo-octahedral 12-1-4 system95. The dimeric structures of 55 and 56 are held together by P=0--T contacts collinear with the vinyl ligands, while the fluoroborate and perchlorate ions are nearly collinear with the phenyl ligands140. 

Reactions of vinyliodonium salts with nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and phosphorus nucleophiles have been reported only sporadically and have not been examined in a systematic way. The earliest studies are qualitative, while later investigations are based on rather atypical vinyliodonium structures. Such reactions usually result in the replacement of iodobenzene by the nucleophile (equation 184). The MC pathway, a common mode of reactivity for alkynyliodonium salts, has not been documented for any vinyliodonium compound. 

In an effort to demonstrate the synthetic utility of vinyliodonium salts, small-scale reactions of (4-rm-butyl-1 -cyclohexenyl)phenyliodonium tetrafluoroborate (62) with various nucleophilic species, especially copper(I) reagents, have been conducted125,126. The copper(I)-assisted reactions include the conversions of 62 to 1-cyano-, 1-halo-, 1-alkyl- and 1-phenyl-4-ter r-butylcyclohexenes (equation 215). The alkylation and phenylation of the cyclohexenyl ligand in 62 with lithium diorganocuprates is noteworthy, since the treatment of 62 with H-butyllithium leads to fragmentation of the iodonium ion and affords only a 0.2% yield of 1 -w-butyl-4-terr-butylcyclohexene (equation 216)126. 

The synthetic potential of coupling reactions between vinyliodonium salts and organocuprates has not been exploited. However, some indication of their promise is provided by reported syntheses of bicyclic enediynes in the norbornadiene and 7-oxanor-bornadiene series from the appropriate bisiodonium triflates and lithium dialkynyl-cuprates (equation 221)148. 

Apart from copper(I)-mediated reactions, few studies of the treatment of vinyliodonium salts with carbanions have appeared. The vinylations of the 2-phenyl- and 2- -hexyl-l,3-indandionate ions shown in equations 222 and 223 are the only reported examples of vinyliodonium-enolate reactions known to this author26,126. ( ,)-l-Dichloroiodo-2-chloroethene has been employed with aryl- and heteroarvllithium reagents for the synthesis of symmetrical diaryliodonium salts (equation 224)149,150. These transformations are thought to occur via the sequential displacement of both chloride ions with ArLi to give diaryl (/ -chlorovinyl)iodanes which then decompose with loss of acetylene (equation 225). That aryl(/ -chlorovinyl)iodonium chlorides are viable intermediates in such reactions has been shown by the conversion of ( )-(/ chlorovinyl)phenyliodonium chloride to diaryliodonium salts with 2-naphthyl- and 2-thienyllithium (equation 226)149,150. 

Although alkyne formation from / ,/ -disubstituted vinyliodonium salts via the a-elimination-alkylidenecarbene pathway is expected, the generation of 1-decyne from ( )-l-decenyl(phenyl)iodonium fluoroborate (equation 230) might also occur via syn -elimination. That a-elimination is dominant, even in this case, has been demonstrated by treatment of the a- and / -deuterio-l-decenyl isotopomers with triethylamine (equations 233 and 234)128. 

Reported a-elimination studies of vinyliodonium salts are limited to the substrates shown in Table 10. While aryl migrations might be expected, a-elimination reactions of (/2-arylvinyl)iodonium salts have not been described. Thus far, migrations of /2-hydrogen atoms (equations 230,233 and 234)128, /2-halogen atoms (Cl, Br)104, /2-ArS(0) groups (n = 0,1,2)32 and the methyl group128 have been reported. 

Palladium(II)-copper(I) cocatalyzed couplings of several (/ ,/ -dialkylvinyl)phenyliodo-nium triflates with 4-isopropoxy-3-tri- -butylstannyl-3-cyclobutene-l,2-dione (71) in DMF at room temperature have recently been described (equation 259)157. As observed in earlier studies of Cu(I)- or Pd(II)-promoted reactions of vinyliodonium salts, the vinyl ligands are introduced with retention of configuration. Since iodobenzene is a byproduct of ligand coupling, the production of 3-phenyl-4-isopropoxy-3-cyclobutene-1,2-dione might also be expected. However, the (/ ,/ -dialkylvinyl)iodonium ions are much more reactive... 

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