Theoretical Elucidation of Potential Enantioselectivity in a Pd-Catalyzed Aromatic C-H Coupling Reaction

Yoshio Nishimoto, Hiroki Kondo, Kazuya Yamaguchi, Daisuke Yokogawa, Junichiro Yamaguchi, Kenichiro Itami, Stephan Irle

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Abstract

The mechanism of an aromatic C-H coupling reaction between heteroarenes and arylboronic acids using a Pd catalyst was theoretically and experimentally investigated. We identified the C-B transmetalation as the rate-determining step. The (S)-catalyst-reactant complex was found to be stabilized by hyperconjugation between π-orbitals on the tolyl group and the S-O σ* antibonding orbital in the catalyst ligand. Our findings suggest routes for the design of new, improved Pd catalysts with higher stereoselectivity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4900-4906
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Organic Chemistry
Volume82
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - May 5 2017
Externally publishedYes

Funding

The authors thank Prof. Odile Eisenstein for helpful discussions and the Research Center for Computational Science, Okazaki, Japan, for providing computational resources. Y.N. was supported by a Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science for Young Scientists (DC1). Y.N. and H.K. thank IGER Program in Green Natural Sciences, Nagoya University for a fellowship. S.I. acknowledges partial support by a CREST grant from JST.

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