Regiocontrol in Catalytic Reductive Couplings through Alterations of Silane Rate Dependence
摘要:
Combinations of ligand, reducing agent, and reaction conditions have been identified that allow alteration in the rate- and regioselectivity-determining step of nickel-catalyzed aldehyde-alkyne reductive couplings. Whereas previously developed protocols involve metallacycle-forming oxidative cyclization as the rate-determining step, this study illustrates that the combination of large ligands, large silanes, and elevated reaction temperature alters the rate- and regiochemistry-determining step for one of the two possible product regioisomers. These modifications render metallacycle formation reversible for the minor isomer pathway, and sigma-bond metathesis of the metallacycle Ni-O bond with the silane reductant becomes rate limiting. The ability to tune regiocontrol via this alteration in reversibility of a key step allows highly regioselective outcomes that were not possible using previously developed methods.
A General Strategy for Regiocontrol in Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Couplings of Aldehydes and Alkynes
作者:Hasnain A. Malik、Grant J. Sormunen、John Montgomery
DOI:10.1021/ja102262v
日期:2010.5.12
a broad range of couplings, without relying on substrate biases or directing effects. The complementary use of small cyclopropenylidene carbene ligands or highly hindered N-heterocyclic carbene ligands allows the regiochemical reversal with unbiased internal alkynes, aromatic internal alkynes, conjugatedenynes, or terminalalkynes.