Synthesis of Allenes by Catalytic Coupling of Propargyl Carbonates with Aryl Iodides in the Presence of Diboron Species

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/acs.joc.5b01842

Bimetallic copper-/palladium-catalyzed multicomponent reaction of propargyl carbonates, aryl iodides, and diboron species was studied. This procedure can be used for synthesis of di-, tri-, and tetra-substituted allenes. Using diboronic acid, the reaction

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Synthesis of Allenes by Catalytic Coupling of Propargyl
Carbonates with Aryl Iodides in the Presence of Diboron Species
Yuzhu Yang, and Kalman J. Szabo
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Synthesis of Allenes by Catalytic Coupling of
Propargyl Carbonates with Aryl Iodides in the
Presence of Diboron Species
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Yuzhu Yang, and Kálmán J. Szabó*
Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
kalman@organ.su.se
Abstract: Bimetallic copper/palladium catalyzed multicomponent reaction of propargyl carbonates,
aryl iodides and diboron species was studied. This procedure can be used for synthesis of di-, tri-
and tetra-substituted allenes. Using diboronic acid the reaction is supposed to proceed via
allenylboronic acid intermediate.
Allenes are important substrates in advanced organic synthesis1-6 and in natural product
synthesis.7 Therefore, development of new methodology for allene synthesis from simple
starting materials is an important area. Most of the reported synthetic methodology is based
on transformation of propargyl alcohol derivatives or allenyl halides.1-6 The groups of
Sawamura,8 Lalik9 and Molander10 presented useful Suzuki-Miyaura type transformations of
propargyl phosphates and carbonates with aryl and vinyl boronates.11 Many of these
processes are suitable for synthesis of enantioenriched allenes from chiral propargyl alcohol
derivatives.8 Burke and co-workers12 employed Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of allenyl iodides
with aryl boronates for synthesis of functionalised allenes. Many of these reactions also
proceed with useful levels of chirality transfer, which could be exploited for natural product
synthesis.6
In addition, many excellent catalytic transformations have been presented for allene
synthesis.13-21 These transformations are usually based on coupling reactions of propargyl
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substrates with organometallic reagents and reduction or rearrangement of the propargyl or
allenyl substrates. Organoboron reagents, which are often used for synthesis of
functionalized allenes,8-10,12,15,21-24 are usually air-stable and fairly easy to purify. However,
the synthesis of the organoboron reagents often requires a couple of additional synthetic
steps involving reactive organometallic reagents.25 Therefore, it would be desirable to
develop multi-component reactions, in which the in-situ formed organoboronates would
directly react forming allenyl products.
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Table 1. Cross-coupling of propargyl carbonate 1a with phenyl iodide 2a.a
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Standard conditions (entry 1): 1a (0.2 mmol), 2a ( 0.3 mmol), 3 (0.01 mmol), 4 (0.004 mmol), 5 (0.4 mmol) and 6a
(0.3 mmol) were stirred in a mixture of MeOH (0.8 mL) and toluene (0.2 mL) under Ar at room temperature for 16 h.
Recently, we have reported a new Pd/Cu bimetallic catalytic reaction for synthesis of allenyl
boronates from propargyl carbonates and acetates.21 We have now found that this reaction
can easily be combined with the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling.11,26 After optimization we have
found that propargyl carbonate 1a undergoes cross-coupling reaction with phenyl iodide 2a
with good yield in the presence of catalytic amounts of palladium (
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catalysts and base ( ). An essential component of the coupling reaction is (commercially
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B2pin2 6b, the yield was significantly dropped from 68% to 21% (entry 2). Without any
diboron reagent (6a-b) product formation was not observed (entry 3). When palladium
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Pd(PPh3)4 was not efficient (entry 5). We could not observe any reaction without palladium
catalyst (entry 6). Replacement of CuCl with CuI slightly reduced the yield (entry 7).
3 was replaced by Pd2(dba)3 the yield was dropped to 39% (entry 4), while
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affording 7. We have also varied the applied base (5). However, changing of Na2CO3 to
NaOMe, Cs2CO3 or Li2CO3 led to lowering of the yield by 20-30% (entries 9-11).
Change of the methyl-carbonate to ethyl-carbonate leaving group led to a slight decrease of
the yield (entry 12). Phosphonate leaving group could also be used in the propargyl substrate
but the reaction proceeds with lower yield than with methyl carbonate (entry 13). However,
propargyl acetate or alcohol could not be used as substrates (entry 14). We have found that
the highest yield can be obtained when MeOH/toluene 4:1 mixture was used as solvent.
Increase or descrease of the amount of MeOH led to decrease of the yield (entries 15-17).
Under the applied conditions Ph-I substrate could not be replaced by Ph-Br.
With the optimized conditions in hand we studied the synthetic scope of the reaction. First
we studied the cross-coupling reactions of disubstiuted alkynes 1a
trisubstituted allenes 7a-j (Table 2). The coupling reaction can easily be performed with
propargyl carbonate 1a and various aryl iodides 2a . Aryl iodide with electron-
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withdrawing fluoro-substitutient 2b (entry 2) gave higher yield than methoxy substituted
substrate 2c (entry 3). A slight decrease of the yield was observed, when para-methyl
substituted aryl iodide 2d (entry 4) was replaced by the ortho-methyl substituted 2e (entry
5). Naphthyl (2f) and thiophenyl (2g) substituted substrates also reacted smoothly (entries 6-
7) albeit with lower yield than the parent phenyl iodide 2a (entry 1). Subsequently, we
varied the propargyl carbonate substrate. Pentyl analogue of 1a reacted with 2a in a clean
reaction resulting in 7h (entry 8) with good yield. Trisubstitued propargyl substrates 1c-d
also underwent cross-coupling reaction with phenyl iodide resulting in tetrasubstituted
allenes 7i-j (entries 9-10).
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Table 2. Tandem borylation and Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of propargyl carbonates with aryl
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a Conditions:
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6a (0.3 mmol), and were stirred in a mixture of MeOH (0.8 mL) and toluene (0.2 mL) at room temperature for
16 h. b Isolated yield.
In a previous study,21 we have pointed out that catalytic borylation of terminal alkynes (such
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and it may undergo various side reactions, in particular in the presence of palladium and
coper catalysts. When we attempted the cross-coupling of 1e with phenyl iodide (2a) under
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can be unstable under the reactions conditions. Therefore, we replaced diboronic acid 6a
with B2pin2 6b to obtain a less reactive but more stable allenyl-Bpin derivative as reaction
intermediate. Gratifyingly, the cross-coupling reaction of 1e and 2a in the presence of B2pin2
6b proceeded smoothly affording disubstituted allene 7k (Table 3, entry 1).
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Table 3. Cross-coupling reactions with terminal alkyne derivatives.a
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Isolated yield.
Fluoro derivative 2b was also readily reacted with 1e (entry 2) similarly to propargyl
substrate 1a (Table 2, entry 2). The reaction could be extended to further terminal propargyl
compounds as well. Compound 1f reacted readily with 2a affording 7m (entry 3).
Disubstituted terminal alkynes 1g and 1h also reacted with 2a affording trisubstituted
allenes 7n and 7o (entries 4-5). Accordingly, by variation of the propargyl substrate two
different types of trisubstituted allenes can be synthetized. Using 1g-h as substrates the aryl
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Figure 1. Suggested mechanism for the cross-coupling reaction.
Exploration of the exact mechanism of the cross-coupling reaction requires further studies.
However, considering the previous papers on borylation of propargyl alcohol derivatives
and the results of the above studies at least a presumed mechansitic scheme can be given
(Figure 1). We suggest that the first reaction is a copper catalysed borylation of the
propargyl carbonate substrate 1 21,24 Sawamura and co-workers24 have shown that this
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reaction can be performed using CuOtBu as catalyst. The active copper catalyst is probably
formed in situ from CuCl, base and MeOH under the above reaction conditions. After
transmetallation with diboronate27
with to give the intermediate allenyl boron species
coupling of and . In this process undergoes oxidative addition with palladium (12) and
then transmetallation with to give 13, which after reductive ellimination gives product
Recent studies on synthesis of allenyl boron species21,24 (such as
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Another alternative could be that the aryl halide undergoes to palladium-catalysed formation
of arylboronic acid, which subsequently react with . However, according to our
experiments under the applied reaction conditions Ph-I 2a was failed to undergo borylation
with diboronic acid 6a
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Figure 2. Reaction of 9a with 2a under the reaction conditions identical to the one-pot
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In case of using diboronic acid 6a as reagent (Table 2) the allenyl boron species
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probably allenyl boronic acid ( , R = H). These species are supposed to be very instable and
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corresponding allyl-Bpin compounds. In particular for tetrasubstituted allenyl boron species,
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for these type of intermediates proceeded with higher yield using B2(OH)4 (6a) than with
B2pin2 (6b) (c.f. entries 1 and 2 in Table 1). For example, when 9a21 was reacted with 2a
under the reaction condition of one-pot reaction, a very poor (18%) yield of 7a was obtained
(Figure 2). The higher yield (68%) in case of the one-pot reaction (Table 2, entry 1) is
probably due to intermediary formation of the allenyl boronic acid analog of 9a
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In summary, we have shown that propargyl carbonates, aryl iodides and diboron species
undergo a multicomponent coupling reaction to allenes. We suggest that the reaction
proceeds via allenyl boronic acid or allenyl-Bpin intermediates depending on the applied
diboron reagent. The presented method extends the scope of allene synthesis using simple
starting materials in the coupling reaction.
Experimental Section
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All reactions were performed under argon unless otherwise stated. The solvents were dried
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before use by standard procedures. H NMR and C NMR spectra were recorded in CDCl3
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technique. All column chromatography was performed using silica gel (35-70 microns).
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General Procedure for Synthesis of Arylated allenes from Non-terminal Propargylic
Carbonates 1a-d (General Method I). Inside a glove box, a 8 mL screw top vial equipped
with a Teflon coated stirring bar was charged with CuCl (0.004 mmol), PdCl2(PPh3)2 (0.01
mmol), Na2CO3 (0.4 mmol), B2(OH)4 (0.3 mmol), aromatic iodide (0.3 mmol), MeOH (0.8
mL) and toluene (0.2 mL). The mixture was pre-stirred for 10-15 seconds after which the
non-terminal propargylic carbonate (0.2 mmol) was added to the mixture. The vial was then
closed and stirred at room temperature for 16 hours. After the reaction was finished the
content of the vial was washed out with pentane and concentrated under reduced pressure.
The remaining content was purified by flash column chromatography.
Nona-3,4-diene-1,5-diyldibenzene (7a).
Following general method I, 7a was purified by flash column chromatography using pentane
as eluent. The product was isolated as colorless oil (37.6 mg) in 68% yield. The spectral data
is in agreement with the corresponding literature values:8 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3): δ
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Hz, 3H). C NMR (100 MHz, CDCl3): δ 204.1, 141.9, 137.5, 128.7, 128.5, 128.4, 126.4,
126.0, 125.9, 106.1, 93.7, 35.7, 31.1, 30.3, 29.8, 22.7, 14.6. HRMS (ESI): m/z calcd. for
[C21H24Na]+ 299.1770, found 299.1769.
1-Fluoro-4-(1-phenylnona-3,4-dien-5-yl)benzene (7b).
Following general method I, 7b was purified by flash column chromatography using pentane as
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eluent. The product was isolated as colorless oil (45.2 mg) in 77% yield. H NMR (400 MHz,
CDCl3): δ 7.31-7.27 (m, 2H), 7.25-7.18 (m, 5H), 6.99-6.91 (m, 2H), 5.51 (ddt, J = 10.4, 3.2, 2.8 Hz,
1H), 2.88-2.72 (m, 2H), 2.54-2.40 (m, 2H), 2.34 (dt, J = 7.2 , 3.1 Hz, 2H), 1.50-1.34 (m, 4H), 0.93
(t, J = 7.1 Hz, 3H). 13C NMR (100 MHz, CDCl3): δ 203.8 (d, J = 1.9 Hz), 161.7 (d, J = 245.3 Hz),
141.8, 133.4 (d, J = 3.1 Hz), 128.6 (d, J = 24.2 Hz), 127.5, 127.4, 126.0, 115.1 (d, J = 21.4 Hz),
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Following general method I, 7c was purified by flash column chromatography using pentane as
eluent. The product was isolated as colorless oil (28.2 mg) in 46% yield. The spectral data is in
agreement with the corresponding literature values:8 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.32-7.27 (m,
2H), 7.25-7.20 (m, 5H), 6.86-6.80 (m, 2H), 5.51 (ddt, J = 10.4, 3.2, 3.0 Hz, 1H), 3.81 (s, 3H), 2.81
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(t, J = 7.3 Hz, 3H). 13C NMR (100 MHz, CDCl3): δ 203.5, 158.4, 142.0, 129.8, 128.7, 128.4, 127.1,
126.0, 113.9, 105.6, 93.6, 55.4, 35.8, 31.2, 30.3, 29.9, 22.7, 14.2. HRMS (ESI): m/z calcd. for
[C22H26ONa]+ 329.1876, found 329.1884.
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1-Methyl-4-(1-phenylnona-3,4-dien-5-yl)benzene (7d).
Following general method I, 7d was purified by flash column chromatography using pentane as
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eluent. The product was isolated as colorless oil (38.3 mg) in 66% yield. H NMR (400 MHz,
CDCl3): δ 7.33-7.27 (m, 2H), 7.25-7.17 (m, 5H), 7.13-7.07 (m, 2H), 5.51 (ddt, J = 10.0, 3.4, 2.8 Hz,
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m/z calcd. for [C22H26Na]+ 313.1927, found 313.1922.
1-Methyl-2-(1-phenylnona-3,4-dien-5-yl)benzene (7e).
Following general method I, 7e was purified by flash column chromatography using pentane as
eluent. The product was isolated as colorless oil (29.6 mg) in 51% yield. The spectral data is in
agreement with the corresponding literature values:8 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.31-7.25 (m,
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1-(1-Phenylnona-3,4-dien-5-yl)naphthalene (7f).
Following general method I, 7f was purified by flash column chromatography using pentane as
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125.5, 125.4, 104.4, 90.9, 35.8, 34.7, 31.0, 30.4, 22.6, 14.1. HRMS (ESI): m/z calcd. for
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Following general method I, 7g was purified by flash column chromatography using pentane as
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31.2, 30.5, 30.1, 22.7, 14.2. HRMS (ESI): m/z calcd. for [C19H22SNa]+ 305.1334, found 305.1344.
Deca-3,4-diene-1,3-diyldibenzene (7h).
Following general method I, 7h was purified by flash column chromatography using pentane as
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128.4, 126.5, 126.0, 126.0, 105.2, 95.3, 34.5, 32.0, 31.6, 29.2, 22.6, 14.2. HRMS (ESI): m/z calcd.
for [C22H26Na]+ 313.1927, found 313.1930.
(1-Cyclohexylidenehex-1-en-2-yl)benzene (7i).
Following general method I, 7i was purified by flash column chromatography using pentane as
eluent. The product was isolated as colorless oil (36.1 mg) in 75% yield. The spectral data is in
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26.4, 22.5, 14.2. HRMS (APCI/TOF-Q) m/z: [M+H]+calcd. for C18H25 241.1951, found 241.1958.
(3-Methylnona-3,4-dien-5-yl)benzene (7j).
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Carbonates 1f-h (General Method II).
Inside a glove box, a 8 mL screw top vial equipped with a Teflon coated stirring bar was charged
with CuCl (0.004 mmol), PdCl2(PPh3)2 (0.01 mmol), Na2CO3 (0.4 mmol), B2pin2 (0.3 mmol),
armomatic iodide (0.3 mmol), MeOH (1.6 mL) and toluene (0.4 mL). The mixture was pre-stirred
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mixture. The vial was then closed, taken out of glovebox and stirred at 50 oC for 6 hours. After the
reaction was finished the content of the vial was washed out with pentane and concentrated under
reduced pressure. The remaining content was purified by flash column chromatography.
Octa-1,2-dien-1-ylbenzene (7k).
Following general method II, 7k was purified by flash column chromatography using pentane as
eluent. The product was isolated as colorless oil (24.2 mg) in 65% yield. The spectral data is in
agreement with the corresponding literature values:12 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.32-7.27 (m,
4H), 7.22-7.15 (m, 1H), 6.12 (dt, J = 6.4, 3.0 Hz, 1H), 5.57 (dd, J = 13.2, 6.6 Hz, 1H), 2.17-2.08 (m,
2H), 1.55-1.44 (m, 2H), 1.40-1.20 (m, 4H), 0.89 (t, J = 7.2 Hz, 3H). 13C NMR (100 MHz, CDCl3):
δ 205.3, 135.3, 128.7, 126.7, 126.6, 95.3, 94.7, 31.5, 29.0, 28.9, 22.6, 14.2. HRMS (APCI/TOF-Q)
m/z: [M+H]+calcd. for C14H19 187.1481, found 187.1490.
Octa-1,2-dien-1-ylbenzene (7l).
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CDCl3): δ 7.26-7.21 (m, 2H), 7.02-6.95 (m, 2H), 6.09 (dt, J = 6.4, 3.0 Hz, 1H), 5.56 (dd, J = 13.3,
6.6 Hz, 1H), 2.16-2.08 (m, 2H), 1.53-1.40 (m, 2H), 1.38-1.340 (m, 4H), 0.89 (t, J = 7.1 Hz, 3H). 13C
NMR (100 MHz, CDCl3): δ 205.0 (d, J = 2.3 Hz), 161.9 (d, J = 245.2 Hz), 131.2 (d, J = 3.3 Hz),
128.1 (d, J = 8.0 Hz), 115.6 (d, J = 21.7 Hz), 95.5, 93.7, 31.5, 29.0, 28.9, 22.6, 14.2. HRMS
(APCI/TOF-Q) m/z: [M+H]+calcd. for C14H18F 205.1387, found 205.1385.
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[M+H]+calcd. for C17H17 221.1325, found 221.1314.
(2-Cyclohexylidenevinyl)benzene (7n).
Following general method II, 7n was purified by flash column chromatography using pentane as
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agreement with the corresponding literature values:30 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.30-7.26 (m,
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31.5, 27.9, 26.3. HRMS (APCI/TOF-Q) m/z: [M+H]+calcd. for C14H17 185.1325, found 185.1333.
(3-Methylpenta-1,2-dien-1-yl)benzene (7o).
Following general method II, 7o was purified by flash column chromatography using pentane as
eluent. The product was isolated as colorless oil (18.0 mg) in 57% yield. The spectral data is in
agreement with the corresponding literature values:31 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.70 (dd, J =
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2H), 1.80 (d, J = 3.0 Hz, 3H), 1.05 (t, J = 7.4 Hz, 3H). 13C NMR (100 MHz, CDCl3): δ 202.5, 137.5,
136.2, 130.2, 128.5, 127.5, 126.5, 126.4, 105.5, 94.4, 27.2, 18.8, 12.3. HRMS (APCI/TOF-Q) m/z:
[M+H]+calcd. for C12H15 159.1168, found 159.1167.
Ackonwledgement
Support from the Swedish Research Council and the Knut och Alice Wallenbergs
Foundation, as well as a post-doctoral fellowship for Y. Yang from the Olle Engkvist
Byggmästare foundation is gratefully acknowledged. The authors thank Dr. Jian Zhao for
help with preparation of this manuscript. Generous gift of B2pin2 from Allychem is
appreciated.
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