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Palladium-NHC (NHC = N-heterocyclic Carbene)-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling of Alkyl Amides
Wang, Chang-An,Rahman, Md. Mahbubur,Bisz, Elwira,Dziuk, B?az?ej,Szostak, Roman,Szostak, Michal
, p. 2426 - 2433 (2022/02/17)
We report the Pd-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling of aliphatic amides. Although tremendous advances have been made in the cross-coupling of aromatic amides, C-C bond formation from aliphatic amides by selective N-C(O) cleavage has remained a major challenge. This longstanding problem in Pd catalysis has been addressed herein by a combination of (1) the discovery of N,N-pym/Boc amides as a class of readily accessible amide-based reagents for cross-coupling and (2) steric tuning of well-defined Pd(II)-NHC catalysts for cross-coupling. The methodology is effective for the cross-coupling of an array of 3°, 2°, and 1° aliphatic amide derivatives. The catalyst system is user-friendly, since the catalysts are readily available and are air- and bench-stable. Mechanistic studies strongly support an amide bond twist and external nN → π*C═O/Ar delocalization as a unified enabling feature of N,N-pym/Boc amides in selective N-C(O) bond activation. The method provides a rare example of Pd-NHC-catalyzed cross-coupling of aliphatic acyl amide electrophiles.
N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Alkylation of Aldehydes
Ishii, Takuya,Kakeno, Yuki,Nagao, Kazunori,Ohmiya, Hirohisa
supporting information, p. 3854 - 3858 (2019/04/25)
We found that N-heterocyclic carbene catalysis promoted the unprecedented decarboxylative coupling of aryl aldehydes and tertiary or secondary alkyl carboxylic acid-derived redox-active esters to produce aryl alkyl ketones. The mild and transition-metal-free reaction conditions are attractive features of this method. The power of this protocol was demonstrated by the functionalization of pharmaceutical drugs and natural product. A reaction pathway involving single electron transfer from an enolate form of Breslow intermediate to a redox ester followed by recombination of the resultant radical pair to form a carbon-carbon bond is proposed.
An evaluation of substituent effects on aromatic edge-to-face interactions and CF-π versus CH-π interactions using an imino torsion balance model
Jennings, W. Brian,O'Connell, Niamh,Malone, John F.,Boyd, Derek R.
, p. 5278 - 5291 (2013/08/23)
A selection of imines derived from phenyl t-butyl ketones and substituted 2-phenylethylamines or phenylalanine exhibit slow rotation around the aryl-imino bond at ambient temperature, resulting in a large non-equivalence of the ortho hydrogens in the 1H NMR spectra. This facilitates assessment of aryl substituent effects on the face tilted-T CH-π interaction between a phenyl ring (A) on the imino carbon proximate to the terminal phenyl ring (B). Analysis of the marked temperature dependence of the chemical shift of the interacting ortho hydrogen affords estimates of the opposing enthalpic and entropic factors involved in the rapid equilibrium between the closed edge-to-face conformation and alternative open conformations devoid of a CH-π interaction while in solution. Above ca. 80 °C the entropy term (TΔS) cancels out the enthalpy (ΔH) favouring the closed conformation and open conformations are preferred. Accordingly, commonly reported binding free energies may not be a good measure of the energetic strength of intramolecular aromatic interactions. Investigation of an ortho fluoro substituted compound indicates that a CF-π interaction is at least 1.0 kcal mol-1 weaker in enthalpy than the CH-π interaction. Several X-ray crystal structures depicting an intramolecular edge-to-face interaction are presented.
