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Ester Formation via Symbiotic Activation Utilizing Trichloroacetimidate Electrophiles
Mahajani, Nivedita S.,Meador, Rowan I. L.,Smith, Tomas J.,Canarelli, Sarah E.,Adhikari, Arijit A.,Shah, Jigisha P.,Russo, Christopher M.,Wallach, Daniel R.,Howard, Kyle T.,Millimaci, Alexandra M.,Chisholm, John D.
, p. 7871 - 7882 (2019/06/27)
Trichloroacetimidates are useful reagents for the synthesis of esters under mild conditions that do not require an exogenous promoter. These conditions avoid the undesired decomposition of substrates with sensitive functional groups that are often observed with the use of strong Lewis or Br?nsted acids. With heating, these reactions have been extended to benzyl esters without electron-donating groups. These inexpensive and convenient methods should find application in the formation of esters in complex substrates.
Direct C(sp2)-C(sp3) cross-coupling of diaryl zinc reagents with benzylic, primary, secondary, and tertiary alkyl halides
Dunsford, Jay J.,Clark, Ewan R.,Ingleson, Michael J.
supporting information, p. 5688 - 5692 (2015/05/19)
The direct C(sp2)-C(sp3) cross-coupling of diaryl zinc reagents with benzylic, primary, secondary, and tertiary alkyl halides proceeded in the absence of coordinating ethereal solvents at ambient temperature without the addition of a catalyst. The C(sp2)-C(sp3) cross-coupling showed excellent functional-group tolerance, and products were isolated in high yields, generally without the requirement for purification by chromatography. This process represents an expedient, operationally simple method for the construction of new C(sp2)-C(sp3) bonds. Zinc and you'll miss it. Direct C(sp2)-C(sp3) cross-coupling of diaryl zinc reagents with alkyl halides proceeded rapidly at ambient temperature without a coordinating ethereal solvent or an added catalyst (see scheme). This versatile, operationally simple approach to C(sp2)-C(sp3) bond formation enables the expedient construction of a diverse array of carbon-based structural motifs.
On the mechanism of the palladium-catalyzed β-arylation of ester enolates
Larini, Paolo,Kefalidis, Christos E.,Jazzar, Rodolphe,Renaudat, Alice,Clot, Eric,Baudoin, Olivier
supporting information; experimental part, p. 1932 - 1944 (2012/03/22)
The palladium-catalyzed β-arylation of ester enolates with aryl bromides was studied both experimentally and computationally. First, the effect of the ligand on the selectivity of the α/β-arylation reactions of ortho- and meta-fluorobromobenzene was described. Selective β-arylation was observed for the reaction of o-fluorobromobenzene with a range of biarylphosphine ligands, whereas α-arylation was predominantly observed with m-fluorobromobenzene for all ligands except DavePhos, which gave an approximate 1:1 mixture of α-/β-arylated products. Next, the effect of the substitution pattern of the aryl bromide reactant was studied with DavePhos as the ligand. We showed that electronic factors played a major role in the α/β-arylation selectivity, with electron-withdrawing substituents favoring β-arylation. Kinetic and deuterium-labeling experiments suggested that the rate-limiting step of β-arylation with DavePhos as the ligand was the palladium-enolate-to-homoenolate isomerization, which occurs by a β-H-elimination, olefin-rotation, and olefin-insertion sequence. A dimeric oxidative-addition complex, which was shown to be catalytically competent, was isolated and structurally characterized. A common mechanism for α- and β-arylation was described by DFT calculations. With DavePhos as the ligand, the pathway leading to β-arylation was kinetically favored over the pathway leading to α-arylation, with the palladium-enolate-to-homoenolate isomerization being the rate-limiting step of the β-arylation pathway and the transition state for olefin insertion its highest point. The nature of the rate-limiting step changed with PCy3 and PtBu3 ligands, and with the latter, α-arylation became kinetically favored. The trend in selectivity observed experimentally with differently substituted aryl bromides agreed well with that observed from the calculations. The presence of electron-withdrawing groups on these bromides mainly affected the α-arylation pathway by disfavoring C-C reductive elimination. The higher activity of the ligands of the biaryldialkylphosphine ligands compared to their corresponding trialkylphosphines could be attributed to stabilizing interactions between the biaryl backbone of the ligands and the metal center, thereby preventing deactivation of the β-arylation pathway.
Photostimulated Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution for Halides with Carbon Nucleophiles. Preparative and Mechanistic Aspects
Semmelhack, M. F.,Bargar, Thomas
, p. 7765 - 7774 (2007/10/02)
The photo-SRN1 reaction operates efficiently with enolate anions derived from simple ketones and esters, but 2-lithio-1,3-dithiane gives low yields.The sluggish and inefficient reaction of dialkyl-substituted ketone and ester enolates is traced to hydrogen atom transfer from the carbon adjacent to the enolate anion to the transient phenyl radical.The first systematic survey of intramolecular coupling of keton enolate anions shows that six-, seven-, eight-, and ten-membered rings can be formed, although the β-hydrogen transfer becomes important in certain cases.
