Phosphine Adducts of 1,2-Dibromo-1,2-dimesityldiborane(4): Between Bridging Halides and Rearrangement Processes
Phosphine Adducts of 1,2-Dibromo-1,2-dimesityldiborane(4): Between Bridging Halides and Rearrangement Processes
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.201201673
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发表时间:
2012-01-01
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16.6
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Radacki, Krzysztof
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作者:
Braunschweig, Holger;Damme, Alexander;Radacki, Krzysztof
Modern organic chemistry and the production of high-value chemicals strongly rely on the possibility to incorporate a manifold of different functionalities into the organic framework. In this regard, the boryl group has been established a long time ago, combining versatile accessibility with a unique chemical diversity. Valuable secondary products include for example alkenes, alcohols, and ketones. Of equal importance is their outstanding significance as reagents in Suzuki–Miyaura-type coupling reactions. Various synthetic approaches, such as salt elimination, hydroboration, or diboration reactions, have been developed to enable a convenient introduction of the boryl group. In particular, the diboration has been of great interest in facilitating the simultaneous generation of two reactive sites from commercially available diborane (4) reagents, that is, B2cat2 (cat= catecholato) and B2pin2 (pin= pinacolato).[1] One major drawback of this approach is the requirement of transition-metal catalysis in almost all cases, except for highly reactive diborane (4) derivatives.[2] The first example of such diboration reactivity was published back in 1954 for B2Cl4, which readily adds to the double bond of ethylene in the absence of any additive.[2a] However, catalytic processes are by far predominant, for which reason current research focuses on alternative metal-free systems. Hoveyda et al. recently reported the efficient metal-free β-boration of α, β-unsaturated ketones promoted by an N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC).[3] A neutral 1: 1 NHC adduct of B2pin2 (1; Scheme 1) was proposed as the catalytically active species, even though its exact structure remained unknown at that time. Nevertheless, these findings stimulated research in this area and other metal-free systems for the borylation of organic substrates have been developed based on both neutral and anionic sp2–sp3 diboron compounds.[4] As a result, more detailed information on the actual composition of the organic catalyst is now available, which clearly emphasizes the high relevance of sp2–sp3 diboranes as intermediates in both transition-metal [5] and organocatalyzed [4] borylation reactions. Elegant spectroscopic and theoretical studies by Marder et al. eventually verified the existence of the neutral NHC adduct 1 both in solution and in the solid state.[6] Furthermore, Kleeberg etal. recently succeeded in the isolation of related anionic species B2pin2· XÀ(2; XÀ= OMeÀ, OtBuÀ, 4-tBu-C6H4OÀ, FÀ; Scheme 1), which showed a high potential in the metal-free borylation of organic electrophiles.[7]With these fundamental developments in mind, it appears rather surprising that simple 1: 1 adducts of diboranes (4) with Lewis bases have been neglected for a long time. Accordingly, the number of fully characterized sp2–sp3 diboron compounds is still comparatively small. Initially, Marder and Norman studied the reactivity of B2cat2 and B2 (1, 2-S2C6H4) towards nitrogen and phosphorus donors to afford the corresponding mono-and bis-adducts B2 (1, 2-E2C6H4)· L (3; E= O, S; L= 4-picoline, PMe2Ph, PEt3; Scheme1) and B2 (1, 2-E2C6H4)· L2 (4).[8] Later on, intramolecular Lewis base coordination was established for pinacolato (diisopropanolaminato) diboron (5; PDIPA-diboron; Scheme 1), which was shown to be a highly useful sp2–sp3 diboron reagent in the copper-catalyzed βboration of α, β-unsaturated substrates.[9] Together with the more recently published derivatives 1 and 2, it becomes evident that the few known sp2–sp3 diboranes are exclusively derived from oxo-and sulfurbased diborane (4) precursors. We became interested in the coordination chemistry of more reactive halide-substituted diboranes (4 …