PdII- and PtII-mediated polycyclization reactions of 1,5- and 1,6-dienes:: Evidence in support of carbocation intermediates
PdII- and PtII-mediated polycyclization reactions of 1,5- and 1,6-dienes:: Evidence in support of carbocation intermediates
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200453913
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发表时间:
2004-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Gagné, MR
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作者:
Koh, JH;Gagné, MR
Biomimetic polyolefin cascade reactions [1, 2] represent some of the most challenging problems in reaction design, and their products are ubiquitous in the natural world.[3] Since the Brønsted–Lewis acids (BLAs) of Yamamoto et al. are the only known synthetic catalysts for asymmetric catalytic initiation of cation–olefin cyclizations,[4, 5] we became interested in an alternative CÀC bond-forming cascade wherein activation of a terminal alkene occurs with an electrophilic PdII source. Although this process is uncommon, it is precedented in the catalysis of the Cope rearrangement with [PdCl2 (RCN) 2][Eq.(1)] by Overman et al.[6] Fragmentation of a cationic intermediate in the opposite regiodirection was proposed to generate a new diene and a PdII complex. More recently, Widenhoefer et al.[7] and Toyota, Ihara et al.[8] demonstrated that nucleophilic enols lead to carbocyclic products by β-hydride elimination [9] or protonation.[10]Although substituent effects [11] and stereochemical studies [6c] support a cationic and cyclic intermediate, respectively, the exact nature of this intermediate is unclear, and direct evidence for this cation is lacking.[12] We therefore initiated a plan that first gathered evidence supporting the intermediacy of the carbocyclic cation, while also determining whether it could function as a point for initiating new metal-mediated reactivity. The key to our pursuit was a recent report by Vitagliano et al. of a dicationic Pt complex of a pyridyl bisphosphane pincer ligand [Pt (PNP)](BF4) 2 (PNP= 2, 6-bis (diphenylphosphanylmethyl) pyridine) that catalyzes the dimerization of ethylene and 2-methyl-2-butene.[13, 14] Intermolecular nucleophilic addition of 2-methyl-2-butene to coordi-