Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction by PdII-catalyzed aromatic C-H bond activation directed by an N-alkyl acetamino group
Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction by PdII-catalyzed aromatic C-H bond activation directed by an N-alkyl acetamino group
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200700590
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Wang, Yang
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作者:
Shi, Zhangjie;Li, Bijie;Wang, Yang
CÀC bond formation is an important process in organic synthesis. The Suzuki–Miyaura coupling is one of the most useful methods to construct CÀC bonds and has been broadly applied in syntheses of natural products, synthetic drugs, and materials.[1] In a traditional palladium-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura coupling, CÀX (X= Br, I, OTf; Tf= trifluoromethanesulfonyl) groups were required as substrates to initiate the oxidative addition of Pd0 to produce PdII-containing intermediates. Recent advances have allowed the use of the relatively cheap and readily available organic chlorides,[2] but an ideal and environmentally friendly method to construct CÀ C bonds would be the direct functionalization of CÀH bonds. Over the past several decades, extensive efforts have been made to develop a transition-metal-catalyzed CÀH functionalization.[3] Direct arylation of aromatic CÀH bonds has been developed with or without directing groups to construct a biaryl structural motif, which is an important scaffold in many pharmaceutically relevant and biologically active compounds.[4] In many cases, CÀH bond activation by transitionmetal complexes can offer a direct route to CÀM (M= metal) intermediates that are also accessible through the oxidative addition of a low-valent transition-metal complex to organic halides. However, the direct activation of CÀH bonds could lead to the same valuable products but avoid the requirement of the presence of halides in the starting material. Although the CÀC bond could be constructed by transition-metalcatalyzed CÀH bond activation of arenes by using other methods,[5] processes to form CÀC bonds by Suzuki–Miyauratype coupling were rarely reported. Very recently, the research group of Yu reported the alkylation of sp3 or sp2 CÀH bond directed by pyridinyl and carboxylic groups.[6] A number of research groups, including that of Sames, have reported the arylation of sp3 CÀH bonds catalyzed by ruthenium complexes with an aromatic boronic ester and by using a heterocyclic directing group.[7] Herein we report a palladium-catalyzed CÀC bond formation to afford highly regioselective ortho arylation of aromatic CÀH bond in a Suzuki—Miyaura-type coupling reaction with aromatic boronic acids directed by an acetyl amino group. We previously developed a highly regioselective halogenation of acetanilides by using a PdII-catalyzed reaction [Eq.(1)].[8] A Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reaction mediated by Pd could occur from this halide under basic conditions [Eq.(2)].[9] In our halogenation reaction, we proposed the palladacycle 5 as a key intermediate, identical to that generated from the oxidative addition of 4 to Pd0 in the traditional Suzuki–Miyaura coupling. This intermediate 5, if formed, will undergo transmetalation with boronic acids and reductively eliminate to form the CÀC bond. Thus, we hypothesized that a Suzuki–Miyaura coupling by using CÀH functionalization of acetanilides with aryl boronic acids might proceed under the proper conditions (Scheme 1). However, the reaction conditions of the halogenation reaction and Suzuki–Miyaura coupling may not be compatible because, although both may go through the same intermediate 5, they were catalyzed by different palladium species. The halogenation was carried out under acidic conditions to enhance the electrophilic ability of the PdII species that is important for cyclopalladation. However, most Suzuki–Miyaura couplings proceed under basic conditions.[1, 2] This difference makes it difficult to combine these two processes and construct a CÀC bond from a CÀH bond. We have to overcome this problem if we want to directly