Phosphane-free rhodium catalyst in an anionic micellar system for [4+2] annulation of dienynes.
Phosphane-free rhodium catalyst in an anionic micellar system for [4+2] annulation of dienynes.
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10.1002/anie.200353123
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2004-03
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Dai Motoda;H. Kinoshita;H. Shinokubo;K. Oshima
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Dai Motoda;H. Kinoshita;H. Shinokubo;K. Oshima
Cationic complexes often exhibit marked catalytic activity in a number of transition-metal-catalyzed reactions because they have more available vacant sites for coordination of substrates than the corresponding neutral complexes. In particular, cationic rhodium catalysts are frequently employed as homogeneous catalysts for hydrogenation, asymmetric hydrogenation, hydrosilylation, hydride transfer, cycloaddition, and so forth.[1] Cationic rhodium catalysts are usually prepared by treatment of the corresponding chloro complex with silver salts with outer-sphere counteranions, such as BF4 À or PF6 À.[2] Herein we report a phosphane-free cationic rhodium species that forms a highly active catalyst in an aqueous anionic micellar system for the [4+ 2] annulation of dienynes.[3]We investigated the rhodium-catalyzed intramolecular [4+ 2] annulation of 1, 3-dien-8-ynes 1a in aqueous media (Table 1).[4, 5] This process often employs cationic rhodium complexes as the catalyst. The presence of phosphane ligands is also crucial, and it was reported that 1, 4-diphenylphosphanylbutane provides a highly efficient catalyst.[5g] A water-soluble rhodium catalyst was prepared in situ from [{RhCl (cod)} 2] and the trisodium salt of tris (m-sulfonatophenyl) phosphane (tppts).[6, 7] The addition of dienyne 1a to a solution of the catalyst at 508C provided the cycloaddition product 2a in 51% yield after stirring for 12h (Table1, entry 1). The aromatized product 3a was also obtained. The reaction system was heterogeneous, and the addition of surfactants was examined.[8] An anionic surfactant, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), enhanced the efficiency of the reaction, and the yield of 2a was improved to 91%(Table 1, entry 4). Cationic and neutral surfactants did not work as effectively as SDS (Table 1, entries 2 and 3). We then tried to lower the reaction temperature to room temperature (Table 1, entries 5–12). None of the cycloaddition product was observed at 258C with the catalyst combination of [{RhCl (cod)} 2]–tppts (Table 1, entry 5). The use of diphenylphosphanylbutane (dppb) yielded a small amount of 2a (Table 1, entry 6). After several experiments, we found that the rhodium chloride dimer without any phosphane ligands led to quantitative conversion (Table1, entry7). Mixing the rhodium chloride dimer and SDS in water afforded a clear yellow homogeneous solution, although [{RhCl (cod)} 2] itself is insoluble in water. Several rhodium complexes were tested in 20-min reactions (Table 1, entries 8–12). The Wilkinson complex and [{RhOH (cod)} 2] did not exhibit catalytic activity (Table 1, entries 9 and 10, respectively). The norbornadiene (nbd) complex proved to be a more efficient catalyst precursor than the corresponding cyclooctadiene complex (Table 1, entry 11). Almost quantitative conversion within 20 min at room temperature was observed. In contrast, the ethylene complex did not work at all (Table 1, entry 12). On the basis of the difference between these rhodium complexes we speculate that the alkene ligand is still associated with the rhodium atom in water. With an efficient reaction protocol in hand for the rhodium-catalyzed [4+ 2] annulation in water, the reaction with several dienynes 1 was examined. Table 2 summarizes the results. Hydrophilic dienyne 1b was very reactive and was converted quantitatively within 10 min. Notably, the reaction can be conducted under an air atmosphere (Table 2, entry 5). Nitrogen-tethered dienyne 1e also afforded the annulation product in excellent yield (Table 2, entry 6). It seems that