Intramolecular Catalyst Transfer over Sterically Hindered Arenes in Suzuki Cross-Coupling Reactions

Yu Xing Zhu, En Ci Li, Kang Shen, Xiaochun Hang, Peter V. Bonnesen, Kunlun Hong, Hong Hai Zhang, Wei Huang

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Abstract

The intramolecular catalyst transfer over sterically hindered arenes in Suzuki cross-coupling reaction was investigated by the reaction of ortho-substituted dibromoarenes with equimolar ortho-substituted phenylboronic acid in the presence of NHC based PEPPSI-IPr as catalyst. The diarylarene species of the form Ar’−Ar−Ar’ were observed as major product, which suggested the intramolecular transfer of Pd(0) over sterically hindered arenes proceeded smoothly in Suzuki cross-coupling reaction. Furthermore, our studies also demonstrated that intramolecular catalyst transfer could be a useful tool to improve the polymerization efficiency, especially in the synthesis of ortho-linked polyarenes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1506-1512
Number of pages7
JournalAsian Journal of Organic Chemistry
Volume8
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2019

Funding

We thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Numbers 21704041) for the support. Part of the syntheses was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

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Office of Science
National Natural Science Foundation of China21704041

    Keywords

    • Controlled Polymerization
    • Intramolecular Catalyst Transfer
    • Sterically Hindered Substrate

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