Efficient N-heterocyclic carbene nickel pincer complexes catalyzed cross coupling of benzylic ammonium salts with boronic acids
作者:Xi-Yu Liu、Hai-Bo Zhu、Ya-Jing Shen、Jian Jiang、Tao Tu
DOI:10.1016/j.cclet.2016.09.006
日期:2017.2
Abstract Pyridine-bridgedbis-benzimidazolylidene nickel complexes exhibited very high catalytic activity toward cross coupling of inactive (hetero)aryl benzylic ammonium salts with (hetero)aryl and alkenyl boronic acids under mild reaction conditions. Even at 2 mol% catalyst loading, a wide range of substrates for both coupling partners with different steric and electronic properties were well tolerated
Scandium(<scp>III</scp>) trifluoromethanesulfonate-catalysed reductive Friedel–Crafts benzylation of aromatic compounds using arenecarbaldehydes and propane-1,3-diol
Scandium(III) trifluoromethanesulfonate catalyses the Friedel-Crafts benzylation of aromatic compounds with arenecarbaldehydes and propane-1,3-diol to produce, through a clean redox process, diarylmethanes in high to excellent yields.
Superacid-Catalyzed Reductive Friedel−Crafts Reaction of Arenes Using Arenecarbaldehyde Acetals
Reaction of 2-aryl-1,3-dioxane with arenes in the presence of a catalytic amount of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid gave the corresponding diarylmethanes in good to excellent yields. The acid-catalyzed Friedel-Crafts benzylation of arenes could altenatively be carried out using arenecarbaldehyde and 1,3-propanediol. The reaction was assumed to proceed through a redox process involving hydride shift from the cyclic acetal moiety to the benzylic carbon. The hydride shift was confirmed by the reaction with 5-ethyl-2-phenyl-4,4,6,6-tetradeuterio-1,3-dioxane, wherein more than 90% deuterium was incorporated into the benzylic carbon of the diphenylmethane. Diphenylmethyl ether Ph(2)CHOCH(2)CH(2)CH(2)OH also reacted with benzene to afford diphenylmethane under the same reaction conditions, suggesting that the ether should be the plausible intermediate that underwent the hydride shift.
The Sc(OTf)(3)-catalyzed Friedel-Crafts alkylation reaction with an alcohol, an arenecarbaldehyde or an arenecarbaldehyde acetal as the alkylating agent affords a diarylmethane or an allylbenzene derivative highly selectively. The salient feature of this reaction is that only a catalytic amount of Sc(OTf)(3) can effect the reaction. Furthermore, Sc(OTf)(3) is recoverable and reusable after the synthetic reaction. The Sc(OTf)(3)-catalyzed benzylation using an arenecarbaldehyde and 1,3-propanediol or their acetal affords diarylmethane as a sole product in excellent yields in sharp contrast to the original Friedel-Crafts reaction. Since no reaction occurs in the absence of 1,3-propanediol, the reaction is considered to proceed through a redox process including a hydride shift. The hydride shift mechanism is strongly supported by the experimental evidence. The reaction of benzaldehyde with benzene in the presence of 1,3-propanediol-1,1,3,3,-d(4) gives rise to the deuterium incorporation into the benzylic carbon of diphenylmethane. Worthy of note is that 1,3-propanediol acts as the hydride source. Herein, diphenylmethyl 3-hydroxypropyl ether is assumed to be the most likely intermediate. In this reaction, Sc(OTf)(3) catalyst effectively promotes initial acetal formation, electrophilic aromatic substitution, and successive intramolecular hydride transfer.