Seven phenyl-substituted vinylstannanes have been prepared. (Z)-beta-(trimethylstannyl)styrene, alpha-(trimethylstannyl)styrene, and 1,1-diphenyl-2-(trimethylstannyl)ethene were prepared by Grignard coupling between the appropriate phenyl-substituted vinyl bromide and chlorotrimethylstannane. (E)-beta-(Trimethylstannyl)styrene and (Z)-(trimethylstannyl)stilbene were prepared by AIBN catalyzed hydrostannation of the appropriate phenyl-substituted acetylene. (E)-(Trimethylstannyl)stilbene and methyl (E)-2-(trimethylstannyl)cinnamate were prepared by palladium(0) catalyzed hydrostannation of diphenylacetylene and methyl phenylpropiolate, respectively. Each compound was characterized by H-1, C-13, and Sn-119 NMR. Reactivity of each compound to protodestannylation was determined by spectrophotometric or H-1 NMR measurement of second order rate constants. The relative reactivity is interpreted on the basis of the electronic and steric effects of the phenyl substituents. The stereochemistry of destannylation resulted in retention of configuration for four of the compounds, consistent with an S(E)2 mechanism. However, methyl (E)-2-(trimethylstannyl)cinnamate gave an E/Z product ratio of essentially. This result is consistent with an allenol mechanism for protodestannylation of this compound.
Regio- and stereo-selective synthesis of vinylstannanes. Transition-metal catalyzed stannylmetalation of acetylenes and conversion of enol triflates and vinyl iodides into vinylstannanes
Two new methods for the regio- and stereo-selective synthesis of vinylstannanes are described. (i) The reaction of terminal acetylenes with n-Bu3SnMgMe, n-Bu3SnAlEt2, or (n-Bu3Sn)2Zn in the presence of various transition-metal catalysts provides vinylstannanes in good yields. Whereas copper-catalyzed stannylmagnesation of 4-benzyloxy-1-butyne gives (E)-4-benzyloxy-1-tributylstannyl-1-butene exclusively
Under palladium(0) catalysis, Ph(R3Sn)CCH2 (R = Me, Et and Bu) easily reacted with ArN2BF4 (Ar = XPh, X = H, 4-Me, 4-I, 4-MeCO, 4-EtOCO, 3-NO2 and 4-NO2) and selectively produced (Z)-PhCHCHAr but not Ph(Ar)CCH2. An addition-elimination mechanism instead of the transmetallation from tin to palladium is postulated for this unusual regiochemistry.
1-(2-Indolyl)vinylstannane 1b has been transmetallated into both the corresponding HO mixed cyanocuprate and the Cu-catalysed organomagnesium reagent, and the reactivity of these species towards N-alkyl-3-acylpyridinium salts 8 and 17 has been tested.