Vinylstannane

Three-component coupling with vinylstannane. norbornene (80). and bro-mobenzene affords the product 91 via oxidative addition, insertion, transme-tallation, and reductive elimination[85]. Asymmetric multipoint control in the formation of 94 and 95 in a ratio of 10 1 was achieved by diastereo-differ-entiative assembly of norbornene (80), the (5 )-(Z)-3-siloxyvinyl iodide 92 and the alkyne 93, showing that the control of four chiralities in 94 is possible by use of the single chirality of the iodide 92. The double bond in 92 should be Z no selectivity was observed with E form[86]. 

The coupling of the enol triflate 703 with the vinylstannane 704[397] has been applied to the synthesis of glycinoeclepin[576]. The introduction of a (Z)-propenyl group in the / -lactam derivative 705 proceeds by use of tri-2-furylphosphine[577]. However, later a smooth reaction to give the propenyl-iactam in 82% yield was achieved simply by treating with Pd(OAc)2 in NMP or CH2CI2 for 3-5 min without addition of LiCI and the phosphine ligand[578]. 

For coupling, the cheaper aryl fluorosulfonate 713 is used as an alternative to the expensive aryl triflates to give the same results[473]. The arenesulfonates 714 are active for the reaction with vinylstannanes when dppp and LiCI are used in DMSO[583], The bromide 715 attacks the arylstannane moiety selectively without reacting with the organoboron moiety in 716 in the absence of a base[584]. 

The alkenyl(phenyl) iodonium salt 725 undergoes the facile cross-coupling with vinylstannane to form the conjugated diene 726[594]. 

Unexpected cine substitution to afford 749. rather than ipso substitution, was observed in the reaction of the vinylstannane 748 derived from camphor with phenyl bromide[616]. 

The a-bromo-7-lactone 901 undergoes smooth coupling with the acetonyltin reagent 902 to afford the o-acetonyl-7-butyrolactone 903[763j. The o-chloro ether 904, which has no possibility of //-elimination after oxidative addition, reacts with vinylstannane to give the allyl ether 905, The o -bromo ether 906 is also used for the intramolecular alkyne insertion and transmetallation with allylstannane to give 907[764],... 

Vinylation can also be done by Pd-catalysed cross-coupling in which one component is used as a halide or triflate and the other as a stannane (Stille reaction) or boronic acid (Suzuki reaction). Entry 9, Table 11.3, is an example of the use of a vinylstannane with a haloindole. lndole-3-boronic acids, which can be prepared by mcrcuration/boration, undergo coupling with vinyl triflates (Entry 10). 

The ability to promote /S elimination and the electron-donor capacity of the /3-metalloid substituents can be exploited in a very useful way in synthetic chemistry. Vinylstannanes and vinylsilanes react readily with electrophiles. The resulting intermediates then undergo elimination of the stannyl or silyl substituent, so that the net effect is replacement of the stannyl or silyl group by the electrophile. An example is the replacement of a trimethylsilyl substituent by an acetyl group by reaction with acetyl chloride. 

Anotlier example is found in tlie lolal syntliesis of iso[7]-levuglandin Dz f30) by Salomon el al. [24]. Tbe cyanoctiprate 27 was prepared by iransmetalation of multifunctional vinylstannane 26 witli MezCuLi-LiCN (Sclieme 9.6) [25]. Addition of tlie enone 28 lo tlie mulbftinctional vinylctiprale 27 provided tlie conjugale addition product 29 in 6 596 yield ibased on tlie enone consumed). 

Scheme 32. Stille couplings of regioselectively generated enol triflates with a vinylstannane.

An important feature of the Stille reaction is that it is not particularly susceptible to steric effects. Indeed, vinyl triflate 120, despite its somewhat hindered nature, couples smoothly with the indicated vinylstannane in the presence of a catalytic amount of Pd(PPh3)4 and LiCl to give 1,3-diene 122 in 90% yield (see Scheme 32).49a As expected, vinyl triflate 119 is converted to the regioisomeric 1,3-diene 121 under identical conditions. 

The key step in a short and efficient synthesis of pleraplysillin-1 (127) is the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of vinylstannane 125 with vinyl triflate 126 (see Scheme 33). This synthesis is noteworthy in two respects. First, vinyl triflate 126 is generated regio-specifically from the kinetic enolate arising from a conjugate reduction of enone 124 the conjugate reduction of an enone is, in fact, a... 

The palladium-catalyzed cyclization of compound 138 amply demonstrates the utility of the Stille reaction as a macrocyclization method (see Scheme 37). This efficient ring closure is just one of many examples disclosed by J.E. Baldwin and his group at Oxford.58 Interestingly, compound 138 can be employed as a stereoisomeric mixture of vinylstannanes because both stereoisomers converge on the same cyclized product. To rationalize this result, it was suggested that the configuration of the vinylstannane moiety is conserved in the cyclization, but that the macrocycle resulting from the (Z)-vinylstannane stereoisomer isomerizes to the thermodynamically favored trans product under the reaction condi-... 

An intramolecular palladium(o)-catalyzed cross-coupling of an aryl iodide with a trans vinylstannane is the penultimate maneuver in the Stille-Hegedus total synthesis of (S)-zearalenone (142) (see Scheme 38).59 In the event, exposure of compound 140 to Pd(PPh3)4 catalyst on a 20% cross-linked polystyrene support in refluxing toluene brings about the desired macrocyclization, affording the 14-membered macrolide 141 in 54% yield. Acid-induced hydrolysis of the two methoxyethoxymethyl (MEM) ethers completes the total synthesis of 142. 

The synthesis of the key intermediate aldehyde 68 is outlined in Schemes 19-21. The two hydroxyls of butyne-l,4-diol (74, Scheme 19), a cheap intermediate in the industrial synthesis of THF, can be protected as 4-methoxybenzyl (PMB) ethers in 94% yield. The triple bond is then m-hydrostannylated with tri-n-butyl-tin hydride and a catalytic amount of Pd(PPh3)2Cl238 to give the vinylstannane 76 in 98 % yield. Note that the stereospecific nature of the m-hydrostannylation absolutely guarantees the correct relative stereochemistry of C-3 and C-4 in the natural product. The other partner for the Stille coupling, vinyl iodide 78, is prepared by... 

The conversion of a thiolactone to a cyclic ether can also be used as a key step in the synthesis of functionalized, stereochemically complex oxacycles (see 64—>66, Scheme 13). Nucleophilic addition of the indicated higher order cuprate reagent to the C-S double bond in thiolactone 64 furnishes a tetrahedral thiolate ion which undergoes smooth conversion to didehydrooxepane 65 upon treatment with 1,4-diiodobutane and the non-nucleophilic base 1,2,2,6,6-pentamethylpiperidine (pempidine).27 Regio- and diastereoselective hydroboration of 65 then gives alcohol 66 in 89 % yield after oxidative workup. Versatile vinylstannanes can also be accessed from thiolactones.28 For example, treatment of bis(thiolactone) 67 with... 

Ueno and coworkers10 have found that the facile displacement of sulfonyl group from a-alkylated allyl p-tolyl sulfones 18 by tri-n-butyltin radical in the presence of 2,2 -azobis[2-methylpropanenitrile] (AIBN) occurs smoothly in refluxing benzene (equation 11). In contrast, vinyl sulfones undergo the radical substitution reaction to give vinylstannanes in the presence of AIBN at a higher temperature11. 

Subsequently, an in situ Pd(OAc)j-imidazolium salt mixture, developed by Nolan and Grasa, has demonstrated its efficiency for the coupling of aryl bromides and even chlorides with aryl and vinylstannanes. This improved reactivity is due to the TBAF additive, whereby F anions coordinate to Sn forming hypervalent fluorostannate anions that are more reactive towards transmetallation to Pd [121] (Scheme 6.37). 

The absolute reactivity of vinalstannanes was evaluated by copolymerizing them in bulk with ethylene at 160 °C and 1400 kg/cm2 in the presence of dibuthyl peroxide. In the system triethyl-vinylstannane/ethylene, as in other systems, the reactivity of both vinylstannane and its radical is found to decrease due to conjugation within the molecule. The mean effective copolymerization constants are rt 0 and r2 = 3.5 + 1.0 52). 

Cyclic nitroalkenes are prepared from cyclic ketones via nitration of vinylstannanes with tetranitromethane in DMSO, as shown in Eq. 2.36, where DMSO is a critical choice of solvent for replacing tin by nitro at the unsaturated carbon. The conversion of ketones to vinylstannanes... 

There are only a few examples of displacement of a fluorine atom in a cross-coupling reaction. With tricarbonylchromium complexes of fluoroarenes as substrates, cross-coupling with both boronic acids and vinylstannanes has been realized. Interestingly, only PMe3 is effective as ligand in this reaction (89).2" See Section 9.6.3.4.10 for an example of the involvement of unactivated fluoroarenes in cross-coupling reactions. 

Bromoalkynes also couple with vinylstannanes readily to result in enynes. Synthesis of protected enynals via cross-coupling of vinylstannanes with 1-bromoalkynes in the presence of a catalytic amount of Pd(II) has been reported (equation 143)252. Hiyama and coworkers extended the Stille methodology for sequential three-component coupling of trimethylstannyl(trimethylsilyl)acetylene with a vinyl iodide in the first step and cross-coupling of the intermediate trimethylsilylethyne with another alkenyl iodide in the presence of tris(diethylamino)sulphonium trimethyldifluorosilicate in the second step to generate a dienyne (equation 144)253. Both steps occur under palladium catalysis, in one-pot, to result in stereodefined l,5-dien-3-ynes. 

Tetraalkylstannanes with an a-halo substituent undergo a, fi-elimination in the presence of l,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU, 90), yielding vinylstannanes with predominant -configuration, as shown in reaction 17273. 

The most typical derivatizing process for vinylstannanes would be cross-coupling, as shown in various examples in Section V.B. However, in certain cases other reactions may afford convenient derivatives preserving the stanyl moiety. 

Vinylstannanes with hydroxy groups in the allylic position undergo enantioselective and diasteroselective hydrogenation in the presence of rhodium catalysts, as illustrated in reaction 19275. Vinylstannanes can be converted into /1-stannylacrylic esters in a two-step synthesis, as shown in reaction 20276. 

Alkynylstannanes yield Z-vinylstannanes stereoselectively, when treated with zirconocene hydrochoride. This can be easily followed by other substitution processes, such a-iodination of the vinylstannane, as shown in reaction 22278. 

Vinylstannane compounds containing a remote vinyl halide moiety undergo a stereospecific internal coupling reaction, catalysed by cuprous iodide, leading to conjugated dienes, as illustated, for example, in reaction 66. ... 

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