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Suzuki cross-coupling of hexachlorobenzene promoted by the Buchwald ligands
Burukin, A. S.,Vasil’ev, A. A.,Zhdankina, G. M.,Zlotin, S. G.
, p. 169 - 172 (2022/02/17)
The study of cross-coupling between hexachlorobenzene and phenylboronic acid comprised five Buchwald ligands, from which 2-dicyclohexylphosphino-2′-(dimethylamino)biphenyl (DavePHOS) provided the best conversion. When excess of phenylboronic acid was used, a mixture of isomeric tri-, tetra- and pentaphenyl-substituted derivatives in the ～10:70:20 ratio was obtained, along with minor amounts of hydrodechlorination products.
Mechanisms of the thermal cyclotrimerizations of fluoro- and chloroacetylenes: Density functional theory investigation and intermediate trapping experiments
Yao, Zhong-Ke,Yu, Zhi-Xiang
supporting information; experimental part, p. 10864 - 10877 (2011/09/20)
Theoretical studies of the mechanisms of the thermal cyclotrimerization of fluoro- and chloroacetylenes, which were reported by Viehe and Ballester, respectively, were conducted with the aid of density functional theory calculations of the (U)B3LYP functional, indicating that the thermal cyclotrimerizations of fluoro- and chloroacetylenes involve tandem processes of regioselectively stepwise [2+2] and stepwise [4+2] cycloadditions. These tandem processes generate 1,2,6-trihalo-Dewar benzenes and 1,2,4-trihalo-Dewar benzenes, which then isomerize to the corresponding benzenes when heated. The rate-determining step of the cyclotrimerizations of haloacetylenes is the dimerization step involving open-shell singlet diradical transition states and intermediates. The substituent effects in the thermal cyclotrimerization of haloacetylenes have been rationalized using frontier molecular orbital theory. The higher reactivity of fluoroacetylenes compared to that of chloroacetylenes is due to the fact that fluoroacetylenes have lower singlet-triplet gaps than chloroacetylenes and more easily undergo dimerization and cyclotrimerization. In this report, additional experiments were performed to verify the theoretical prediction about the cyclotrimerization of chloroacetylene and to trap the proposed 1,4-dichlorocyclobutadiene intermediate. Experiments revealed that the thermal reaction of phenylchloroacetylene at 110 °C gave 1,2,3-triphenyltrichlorobenzene and 1,2,4-triphenyltrichlorobenzene together with a tetramer, cis-1,2,5,6-tetrachloro-3,4,7,8-tetraphenyltricyclo[4.2.0. 02,5]octa-3,7-diene. The proposed 1,4-diphenyldichlorocyclobutadiene intermediate in the thermal cyclotrimerization of phenylchloroacetylene was successfully trapped using dienophiles of maleic anhydride and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate.
