A general and efficient method for the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of 2-pyridyl nucleophiles
A general and efficient method for the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of 2-pyridyl nucleophiles
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200801465
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发表时间:
2008-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Buchwald, Stephen L.
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作者:
Billingsley, Kelvin L.;Buchwald, Stephen L.
The Suzuki-Miyaura reaction has become one of the most valuable synthetic processes for the construction of carbon-carbon bonds,[1] and our laboratories has developed many highly active catalyst systems that efficiently process challenging combinations of aryl halides and boronic acids.[2] Recently, we have been able to extend our methodology to the cross-coupling of heteroaryl boronic acids and esters, which serve as important building blocks for the assembly of biologically active molecules.[3]-[4] However, 2-substituted nitrogen-containing heteroaryl organoboranes, which are of importance for the construction of numerous natural products and pharmaceutically interesting compounds,[5] were not effectively coupled using our standard conditions. Further examination of the literature indicated that only a few methods have been developed that allow for the Suzuki-Miyaura reaction of 2-pyridyl nucleophiles with aryl halides, and in these examples, only aryl iodides have been demonstrated as suitable coupling partners.[3],[6]-[10] The difficulty can be attributed to several factors:(1) electron-deficient heteroaryl boron derivatives undergo transmetallation at a relatively slow rate (2) these reagents rapidly decompose via a protodeboronation pathway. The lack of an efficient method to process this class of nucleophiles led us to develop a technique specifically designed to accomplish this transformation.We found that catalysts based upon phosphite or phosphine oxide ligands (1-4) were highly active for the Suzuki-Miyaura reaction of 2-pyridyl boron derivatives with 1-bromo-4-butylbenzene (Scheme 1).[6] The use of these has been pioneered by the work of Li, and elegant applications by Ackermann and Wolf have appeared more recently. However, the reaction remained sensitive to the nature of the nucleophile and base. For example, the reaction of commercially-available reagents, such as 2-pyridyl boronic acid,[7] pinacol boronate ester [8] or N-phenyl diethanolamine boronate ester,[9] with 4-n-butylbromobenzene produced low yields of the desired biaryl product (Table 1, Entries 1-3). Similarly, attempts to use organotrifluoroborates resulted in a low conversion of the aryl bromide (Table 1, Entry 4).[10] Although 2-pyridylboronates have been employed in Suzuki-Miyaura reactions, the crosscoupling processes result in only poor to modest yields of the desired biaryl product.[11] However, when lithium triisopropyl 2-pyridyl boronate (A) was employed as the nucleophile,