Catalytic carbonylation reactions of benzyne derivatives
Catalytic carbonylation reactions of benzyne derivatives
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DOI:
10.1021/ja011923c
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发表时间:
2001-12-19
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15
通讯作者:
Murai, S
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作者:
Chatani, N;Kamitani, A;Murai, S
Alkynes can be used as two-carbon assembling units in cycloaddition reactions, and a variety of transition metal-catalyzed cycloaddition reactions using alkynes have been reported. 1 In contrast, benzyne derivatives (arynes) have not been used extensively in the area of transition metal-catalyzed cycloaddition chemistry despite their ability to undergo cycloaddition reactions. 2 The high reactivity and short lifetime of benzyne suggest that its use as a component of a catalytic reaction might be difficult. During our ongoing studies of catalytic carbonylative cycloaddition reactions, 3 we have investigated the use of benzyne as a reactive partner in carbonylative cycloadditions. In 1999, Pérez and Guitián reported that the treatment of 2-trimethylsilylphenyl trifluoromethansulfonate (1a) with CsF and a catalytic amount of Pd (0) in CH3CN gives triphenylene, possibly via the [2+ 2+ 2] homo-cyclotrimerization of benzyne. 4 They also reported on the preparation of phenanthrene or naphthalene derivatives via the Pd-catalyzed [2+ 2+ 2] co-cyclotrimerization of benzyne-benzyne-alkyne or benzyne-alkyne-alkyne. 5, 6 Yamamoto independently reported on a similar co-cyclotrimerization of benzyne-benzyne-alkyne, catalyzed by a Pd (0) complex. 7 Yamamoto later confirmed that these co-cyclotrimerization reactions do not proceed via an all-free benzyne mechanism; rather, the initial step of the catalytic cycle involves the oxidative addition of an Ar-OTf bond in benzyne precursor 1a to Pd (0). 8 Yamamoto also reported that the Pd-catalyzed reaction of 1a with allyl chlorides in the presence of CsF gives phenanthrene derivatives and that this reaction proceeded via a free benzyne mechanism. 8, 9 On the other hand, no report on the catalytic carbonylation of benzyne has appeared in the literature to date. Stoichiometric reactions of benzyne-transition metal complexes with CO are, however, known. 10 If benzyne could be utilized as a two-carbon assembly unit in the same manner as alkynes, a new type of carbonylative cycloaddition reaction is possible. We wish to report, to the best of our knowledge, the first example of transition metal-catalyzed carbonylation reactions of benzyne.Although a wide variety of reaction systems were examined in the hope of achieving the three-component cycloaddition of benzyne, various alkenes (or alkynes), and CO, we were not able to achieve the carbonylative cycloaddition reaction. However, it was found that a few complexes show catalytic activity for carbonylation reactions of benzyne itself. A cobalt complex was found to be extremely active for the carbonylation of benzyne. Thus, the reaction of 1a (0.5 mmol) with CO (5 atm) in CH3CN (3 mL) in the presence of Co2 (CO) 8 (0.01 mmol) and CsF (1 mmol) at 60 C for 12 h gave anthraquinone (2a) 11 in 71% isolated yield, along with a trace amount of triphenylene (eq 1). It was