Rhodium-catalyzed hydroarylation of alkynes with arylboronic acids: 1,4-shift of rhodium from 2-aryl-1-alkenylrhodium to 2-alkenylarylrhodium intermediate
Rhodium-catalyzed hydroarylation of alkynes with arylboronic acids: 1,4-shift of rhodium from 2-aryl-1-alkenylrhodium to 2-alkenylarylrhodium intermediate
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DOI:
10.1021/ja0165234
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发表时间:
2001-10-10
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15
通讯作者:
Ogasawara, M
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作者:
Hayashi, T;Inoue, K;Ogasawara, M
Since Miyaura reported the addition of aryl-and alkenylboronic acids to R, β-unsaturated ketones in an aqueous solvent under catalysis by a rhodium-phosphine complex in 1997, 1 this rhodium-catalyzed reaction has been successfully extended to catalytic asymmetric 1, 4-addition by use of binap as a chiral ligand. 2-5 Recently, it has been also reported that the reaction of arylboronic acids takes place with norbornene giving a multiple alkylation product6 and with terminal olefins such as styrenes and vinylpyridines. 7 Here we report, as another example of the rhodium-catalyzed reaction of organoboronic acids, the hydroarylation of alkynes which proceeds with high syn-selectivity and whose catalytic cycle involves an interesting 1, 4-shift of rhodium from an alkenyl carbon to an aryl carbon. The reaction of 4-octyne (1a) with phenylboronic acid (2m) was examined under several reaction conditions (Scheme 1). It was found that hydrophenylation of the alkyne takes place smoothly in an aqueous solvent in the presence of a bisphosphine-rhodium catalyst. Thus, a mixture of 1a, 2m (1.2 equiv to 1a), and 3 mol% of a rhodium catalyst generated from Rh-(acac)(C2H4) 2 and dppb8 in dioxane/water (10/1) was heated at 100 C for 3 h. Evaporation of the solvent followed by silica gel chromatography (hexane) gave 87% yield of (E)-4-phenyl-4-octene9 (4am), whose isomeric purity determined by NMR analyses is over 97%(entry 1 in Table 1). The formation of the E isomer indicates that hydrogen and phenyl add to the triple bond in a syn fashion. The use of an excess of boronic acid 2m slightly increased the yield of 4am, the yield being 93 and 95% with 2.0 and 5.0 equiv of 2m, respectively (entries 2 and 3). Some other chelating bisphosphine ligands, dppf, 8 dppe, 8 and binap, 8 gave essentially the same high chemical yield as dppb, while the yield was much lower with triphenylphosphine (entries 4-7). Triphenylcyclotriboroxane (3m, phenylboroxine) 3e which is a cyclic anhydride of phenylboronic acid (2m) can be used as well as the boronic acid (entry 8). Arylboronic acids, 2n and 2o, which have trifluoromethyl and methyl, respectively, at the 4-position of the phenyl gave the corresponding hydroarylation products (E)-4an and-4ao in over 90% yield (entries 9 and 10). In the reaction with 4-methoxyphenylboronic acid (2p) or its boroxine 3p, the yield of 4ap was low at 100 C, because the hydrolysis giving anisole is fast at this temperature. Lowering the reaction temperature to 60 C greatly improved the yield of 4ap (97%)(entry 12). The hydroarylation of diphenylethyne (1c) also proceeded with syn-selectivity, giving (E)-1, 2-diphenyl-1-(4-trifluoromethylphenyl) ethene (4cn)(> 99% E) in the reaction with 4-trifluoromethylphenylboronic acid (2n)(entry 14). In the reaction of acetylenes substituted with an ester or phosphonate group, the regio-and syn-selectivity was so high that no regio-or geometrical isomers were detected by NMR analysis (entries 16-18). The aryl group was introduced selectively at the β position to the electron-withdrawing group.