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Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Alkenyl Carboxylates
Becica, Joseph,Heath, Oliver R. J.,Leitch, David C.,Zheng, Cameron H. M.
, p. 17277 - 17281 (2020)
Carboxylate esters have many desirable features as electrophiles for catalytic cross-coupling: they are easy to access, robust during multistep synthesis, and mass-efficient in coupling reactions. Alkenyl carboxylates, a class of readily prepared non-aromatic electrophiles, remain difficult to functionalize through cross-coupling. We demonstrate that Pd catalysis is effective for coupling electron-deficient alkenyl carboxylates with arylboronic acids in the absence of base or oxidants. Furthermore, these reactions can proceed by two distinct mechanisms for C?O bond activation. A Pd0/II catalytic cycle is viable when using a Pd0 precatalyst, with turnover-limiting C?O oxidative addition; however, an alternative pathway that involves alkene carbopalladation and β-carboxyl elimination is proposed for PdII precatalysts. This work provides a clear path toward engaging myriad oxygen-based electrophiles in Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling.
