Author : Boran Xu
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Book Synopsis The Design of Palladium and Copper-catalyzed Atom- Economical Reactions by : Boran Xu
Download or read book The Design of Palladium and Copper-catalyzed Atom- Economical Reactions written by Boran Xu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis describes the development of novel metal-catalyzed reactions in two different areas: palladium-catalyzed multicomponent coupling reactions, and copper-catalyzed aerobic oxidations of alcohols and amines. The goal of this work is to discover efficient processes to rapidly generate useful products with minimal waste. In chapter 2, we describe a straightforward new synthesis of 2-imidazolines. This reaction couples the palladium-catalyzed multicomponent formation of 2-imidazolium carboxylates, with subsequent decarboxylation. Polysubstituted imidazolines have useful applications in therapeutics, but are typically prepared in a multistep sequence. We report that the use benzoic acid and water as additives affords good yields and diastereoselectivities for the decarboxylation step. Combining this reaction with subsequent nitrogen deprotection, allows access to imidazolines from four available reagents: two imines, an acid chloride and CO. In chapter 3, we describe the three component palladium-catalyzed synthesis of [alpha]-amidostannanes from imines, acid chlorides and a bis-stannane. The reaction affords product in good yields, proceeds in 1 h, and uses simple Pd2(dba)3 as the catalyst. Mechanistically, this transformation occurs via a Stille-type cross-coupling of an in situ generated iminium salt with the bis-stannane. This represents a mild alternative to traditional syntheses of these products, with strong nucleophilic reagents. Subsequent lithiation and carboxylation can generate various [alpha]-amino acid derivatives in two steps from imines, acid chlorides and CO2. In chapter 4, we describe the copper-catalyzed aerobic oxidation of alcohols without the use nitroxyl co-catalysts. We demonstrate that a Cu/di-tert-butylethylenediamine (DBED) catalyst can generate active copper-oxygen species capable of mediating alcohol oxidation. This catalyst operates at ambient pressure and temperature and retains activity for challenging substrates such as secondary unactivated alcohols. Notably, this system likely operates via a distinct mechanistic pathway compared to nitroxyl based oxidations, and as a result, shows different alcohol chemoselectivity. In chapter 5, we describe the effects of the counterion (X-) in copper-catalyzed aerobic oxidation, and apply these to the oxidation of primary amines. By manipulating the copper salt employed, we have been able to design active catalysts for the oxidation of amines to nitriles (with CuI/DBED), or to imines (with CuPF6). Both of these reactions occur at unusually mild conditions (ambient temperature and pressure), and provide a practical approach to selective amine oxidation without added nitroxyl co-catalysts. " --
