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Palladium-catalyzed arylation of malonates and cyanoesters using sterically hindered trialkyl- and ferrocenyldialkylphosphine ligands
Beare, Neil A.,Hartwig, John F.
, p. 541 - 555 (2002)
Palladium-catalyzed reactions of aryl bromides and chlorides with two common stabilized carbanions - enolates of dialkyl malonates and alkyl cyanoesters - are reported. An exploration of the scope of these reactions was conducted, and the processes were shown to occur in a general fashion. Using P(t-Bu)3 (1), the pentaphenylferrocenyl ligand (Ph5C5)Fe(C5H4)P(t-Bu) 2 (2), or the adamantyl ligand (1-Ad)P(t-Bu)2 (3), reactions of electron-poor and electron-rich, sterically hindered and unhindered aryl bromides and chlorides were shown to react with diethyl malonate, di-tertbutyl malonate, diethyl fluoromalonate, ethyl cyanoacetate, and ethyl phenylcyanoacetate. Although alkyl malonates and ethyl alkylcyanoacetates did not react with aryl halides using these catalysts, the same products were formed conveniently in one pot from diethylmalonate by cross-coupling of an aryl halide in the presence of excess base and subsequent alkylation.
A Unified and Desymmetric Approach to Chiral Tertiary Alkyl Halides
Huang, Zhongxing,Low, Kam-Hung,Zhang, Suihan,Zheng, Yin,Zi, Weiwei
, p. 1951 - 1961 (2022/02/09)
Enantioenriched tertiary alkyl halides are prevalent in bioactive molecules and can serve as versatile synthetic intermediates to construct complex structures. While conventional access to these motifs often hinges on stereoselective carbon-halogen or carbon-carbon bond formation reactions, desymmetric approaches using halogenated and prochiral tetrasubstituted carbons are largely elusive in comparison. Here, we report that a suite of dinuclear zinc catalysts with a prolinol- or pipecolinol-derived tetradentate ligand can reductively desymmetrize a large collection of easily available halomalonic esters to α-halo-β-hydroxyesters. These polyfunctionalized tertiary alkyl fluorides, chlorides, and bromides proved to be useful intermediates toward fluorinated drug analogs and polyhalogenated monoterpenes. The facile intramolecular epoxidation of the chiral chloride and bromide products has also enabled expeditious access to natural products containing tertiary alcohol motifs.
