5558-67-8Relevant articles and documents
Design of an Electron-Withdrawing Benzonitrile Ligand for Ni-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Involving Tertiary Nucleophiles
Edjoc, Racquel K.,Mills, L. Reginald,Rousseaux, Sophie A. L.
, p. 10422 - 10428 (2021/07/26)
The design of new ligands for cross-coupling is essential for developing new catalytic reactions that access valuable products such as pharmaceuticals. In this report, we exploit the reactivity of nitrile-containing additives in Ni catalysis to design a benzonitrile-containing ligand for cross-coupling involving tertiary nucleophiles. Kinetic and Hammett studies are used to elucidate the role of the optimized ligand, which demonstrate that the benzonitrile moiety acts as an electron-acceptor to promote reductive elimination over β-hydride elimination and stabilize low-valent Ni. With these conditions, a protocol for decyanation-metalation and Ni-catalyzed arylation is conducted, enabling access to quaternary α-arylnitriles from disubstituted malononitriles.
Palladium-Catalyzed Direct α-Arylation of Arylacetonitriles with Aryl Tosylates and Mesylates
Yuen, On Ying,Chen, Xiangmeng,Wu, Junyu,So, Chau Ming
, p. 1912 - 1916 (2020/03/13)
The first general palladium-catalyzed α-arylation of arylacetonitriles with aryl and heteroaryl sulfonates are reported. Pd(OAc)2 associated with XPhos serves as the effective catalyst to facilitate this reaction. A broad range of electron-rich, -neutral, -deficient, and sterically hindered aryl/heteroaryl tosylates and mesylates are coupled with arylacetonitriles bearing different substituents to give the corresponding products in good to excellent yields. Catalyst loading down to 0.1 mol-% Pd was achieved, and 22 unprecedented compounds were synthesized from 43 demonstrated examples using this method. Its applicability with the modification of biological phenolic compounds was successfully demonstrated. The Pd/XPhos system catalyzed the α-arylation and followed by alkylation in one-pot sequential conditions, resulting in the direct synthesis of compounds containing quaternary center- and deuterium-containing compounds in good to excellent yields.
Transfer Hydrocyanation of α- and α,β-Substituted Styrenes Catalyzed by Boron Lewis Acids
Orecchia, Patrizio,Yuan, Weiming,Oestreich, Martin
supporting information, p. 3579 - 3583 (2019/02/05)
A straightforward gram-scale preparation of cyclohexa-1,4-diene-based hydrogen cyanide (HCN) surrogates is reported. These are bench-stable but formally release HCN and rearomatize when treated with Lewis acids. For BCl3, the formation of the isocyanide adduct [(CN)BCl3]? and the corresponding Wheland complex was verified by mass spectrometry. In the presence of 1,1-di- and trisubstituted alkenes, transfer of HCN from the surrogate to the C?C double bond occurs, affording highly substituted nitriles with Markovnikov selectivity. The success of this transfer hydrocyanation depends on the Lewis acid employed; catalytic amounts of BCl3 and (C6F5)2BCl are shown to be effective while B(C6F5)3 and BF3?OEt2 are not.
