With palladium

In 2013, Feringa s group [182] reported the application of hindered aryllithium reagents as substrates (or intermediates) in palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling, this in fact allowed access to tri- and tetra-ortfio-substituted products. This group used the Pd-PEPPSI-IPent catalyst for this transformation. 

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J. Tsuji. Organic Synthesis with Palladium Compounds, Springer. Berlin. 1980. 

The 2-alkylideneindanone 282 is formed by carbopalladation via ring expansion of the alkynylcyclobutenol 280 with palladium trifluoroacetate to yield an intermediate 281 and its protonolysis. 4-Oxygenated 5-alkylidenecyclopente-nones react similarly[139]. 

With palladium chloride catalyst, carbon monoxide, and an alcohol the labile hydroxyl is alkylated during carbonylation (199). 

Other useful references are R. E. Heck, Palladium Reagents in Organic Synthesis Academic Press, New York, 1985, and J. Tsuji, Organic Synthesis with Palladium Compounds, Sptinger-Vedag, New York, 1980. 

Oxidation of Sucrose. Sucrose can be oxidized by HNO, KMnO, and peroxide. Under selected conditions using oxygen with palladium or platinum, the 6- or 6 -hydroxyls can be oxidized to form sucronic acid derivatives (29). 

Diacetone-L-sorbose (DAS) is oxidized at elevated temperatures in dilute sodium hydroxide in the presence of a catalyst (nickel chloride for bleach or palladium on carbon for air) or by electrolytic methods. After completion of the reaction, the mixture is worked up by acidification to 2,3 4,6-bis-0-isoptopyhdene-2-oxo-L-gulonic acid (2,3 4,6-diacetone-2-keto-L-gulonic acid) (DAG), which is isolated through filtration, washing, and drying. With sodium hypochlorite/nickel chloride, the reported DAG yields ate >90% (65). The oxidation with air has been reported, and a practical process was developed with palladium—carbon or platinum—carbon as catalyst (66,67). The electrolytic oxidation with nickel salts as the catalyst has also... 

An acidic solvent is recommended for use with palladium. Other catalysts that have been used for this reduction include copper chromite and any of the three Raney catalysts, cobalt, iron, or nickel. 

Dechlorination can be done in the vapor phase with palladium, platinum, copper, or nickel catalysts (23—26) or in the Hquid phase with palladium catalysts (27). The vapor-phase dechlorination of 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene is reported to give good yields of 1,3-dichlorobenzene (24,26). 

Hydroxycoumarias can be obtained by reaction of methyl acrylate [96-33-3] with diphenols ia the preseace of aluminum chloride followed by dehydrogeaatioa with palladium oa carboa (43). 

Platinum, as an alloying element, is used in many dental casting golds (Tables 6 and 7) to improve hardness and elastic qualities. Platinum in combination with palladium and iridium has limited use for dental pins and wires. 

Pyrazine 1,4-dioxides are available by the direct self-condensation of 1,2-hydroxyaminooximes (70JOC2790). 1,2-Nitrooximes are obtained by the isomerization of alkene initrogen trioxide adducts, which are reduced with palladium on charcoal to the hydroxyaminooximes which undergo acid-catalyzed auto-condensation to the pyrazine 1,4-dioxides (Scheme 19). 

There are reports of an increasing number of palladium-assisted reactions, in some of which the palladium has a catalytic function. Thus furan and thiophene undergo facile palladium-assisted alkenylation giving 2-substituted products. Benzo[6 Jfuran and TV- acetyl-indole yield cyclization products, dibenzofurans and carbazoles respectively, in addition to alkenylated products (8UOC851). The arylation of pyrroles can be effected by treatment with palladium acetate and an arene (Scheme 86) (81CC254). 

Hydrocracking is catalyzed by substances that promote cracking and hydrogenation together. In commercial use are Ni, Co, Cr, W, and V or their oxides, presulfided before use, on acid supports. Zeolites loaded with palladium also have been used. 

It was found that sorbed palladium might catalyse reaction of Mn(III) reduction by Cf not only after it s removing from coal, but AC with palladium, Pd/AC, has also his own catalytic effect. On the base of dependence between characteristics of AC, chemical state of palladium on AC surface and catalytic action of Pd/AC in indicator reaction it might establish, that catalytic action concerns only to non-reduced or partly reduced palladium ions connected with chloride ions on coal surface. The presence or absence of catalytic action of Pd/AC in above-mentioned reaction may be proposed for determination of chemical state of palladium on AC surface. Catalytic effect was also used for palladium micro-amounts determination by soi ption-catalytic method. 

CH2=C(OBn)CH2F, PdCl2(COD), CH3CN, it, 24 h, 89-100% yield. Protic acids can also be used to introduce this group, but the yields are sometimes lower. A primary alcohol can be protected in the presence of a secondary alcohol. This reagent also does not give cyclic acetals of 1,3-diols with palladium catalysis. 

A route to phenol has been developed starting from cyclohexane, which is first oxidised to a mixture of cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone. In one process the oxidation is carried out in the liquid phase using cobalt naphthenate as catalyst. The cyclohexanone present may be converted to cyclohexanol, in this case the desired intermediate, by catalytic hydrogenation. The cyclohexanol is converted to phenol by a catalytic process using selenium or with palladium on charcoal. The hydrogen produced in this process may be used in the conversion of cyclohexanone to cyclohexanol. It also may be used in the conversion of benzene to cyclohexane in processes where benzene is used as the precursor of the cyclohexane. 

Displacement of aromatic halogen in 2,4-diiodo-estradiol with tritiated Raney nickel yields 2,4-ditritiated estradiol. Aromatic halogen can also be replaced by heating the substrate with zinc in acetic acid-OD or by deuteration with palladium-on-charcoal in a mixture of dioxane-deuterium oxide-triethylamine, but examples are lacking for the application of these reactions in the steroid field. Deuteration of the bridge-head position in norbornane is readily accomplished in high isotopic purity by treatment of the... 

The Hegedus indole synthesis involves one of the earlier (formal) examples of olefin hydroamination. An ortho-vinyl or ortho-nllyl aniline derivative 1 is treated with palladium(II) to deliver an intermediate resulting from alkene aminopalladation. Subsequent reduction and/or isomerization steps then provide the indoline or indole unit 2, respectively. 

Reduction of quinazoline with hydriodic acid gives 3,4-dihydro-quinazoline but this can be achieved more satisfactorily by catalytic means. With palladium-charcoal it was found possible to reduce quinazoline to 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinazoline. ... 

Further reduction of 3,4-dihydroquinazoline to l,2,3,Jt-tetTahydro-quinazoline is more difficult, but it can be accomplished with sodium amalgam or by catalytic reduction with palladium-charcoal. 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroquinazolines have also been prepared by condensing o-aminobenzylamines with various aldehydes and with formaldehyde or methylenediamines (see 3b). 

A different type of tautomeric relationship exists between compounds of types 323 and 324. Both types of structure can be isolated, pyridones (324, Z = N—Me) and pyrones (324, Z = 0) being formed when 323 (Z = N—Me or 0) is heated with palladium on charcoal in ethylene glycol. Similar isomerizations in the quinol-4-one series have been reported."... 

Recently Swan has employed tetrachloro-o-benzoquinone in the oxidation of the 3,4-dihydro-j8-carbolinium cation 124 to the j8-carbo-linium cation 252. Dehydrogenation with palladium black at 175° or at a higher temperature and with selenium has also been successfully used for the purpose. 

Catalytic reduction of 3-nitro-7-phenyl-l,8-naphthyridin-2(lH)-one (136) with palladium on carbon in 2-ethoxyethanol gave the l,2-di(l,8-... 

The first example of an indolo[2,3-a]carbazole derivative reported with a reasonably estabhshed structure was the mono N-methylated system 9, prepared via dehydrogenation with palladium on charcoal of the octahydro derivative 10, available via reaction of the aminocarbazole 11 with 2-hydroxycyclohexanone in the presence of a trace amount of anihnium bromide (Scheme 1). An approach toward the parent compound 1 using the same method has also been attempted, although without success (56JCS4783). The utility of this route is impaired by the complexity of the starting material, which requires multistep preparation, and the harsh conditions of the final step. 

In a related study, the precursor 41 could be amiulated either by irradiation or by treatment with palladium acetate in acetic acid to provide indolocarbazoles 42 and 43 in yields of 37% and 55%, respectively (Scheme 8). Both products were eventually deprotected efficiently to give 44 and transformed further under reductive conditions to staurosporinone 45, the aglycone of 8, Alternatively, a shorter route encompassing deprotection of 41, followed by cychzation by irradiation in the presence of iodine and subsequent reduction, gave 45 in an even better overall yield (98T6909). 

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