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Wacker-Type Oxidation of Alkynes Into 1,2-Diketones Using Molecular ORGANIC LETTERS 2009 Wacker-Type Oxidation of Alkynes into Vol. 11, No. 8 1,2-Diketones Using Molecular Oxygen 1841-1844 Wei Ren,† Yuanzhi Xia,† Shun-Jun Ji,† Yong Zhang,‡ Xiaobing Wan,*,† and Jing Zhao§ Key Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of Jiangsu ProVince, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow UniVersity, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China, Testing and Analysis Center of Soochow UniVersity, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China, and State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing UniVersity, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China [email protected] Received February 16, 2009 ABSTRACT An intriguing new Wacker-type oxidation of alkynes catalyzed by PdBr2 and CuBr2 is described, which opens an efficient access to 1,2-diketones using molecular oxygen. Under the optimized conditions, a variety of alkynes, including diarylalkynes, arylalkylalkynes, and dialkylalkynes, were compatible substrates in this transformation. The mechanism of this reaction was preliminarily investigated by control experiments. Pd-catalyzed Wacker oxidation of alkenes consists of one Compared with the impressive development of alkenes, of the most important industrial processes employing transi- Wacker-type oxidation of alkyne has not been explored thus tion metal catalysts.1 Owing to its high selectivity and far.7 We speculate this dichotomy in progress between excellent functional group tolerance, this transformation has alkenes and alkynes may be attributable to the differences found widespread application in synthetic chemistry.2 Recent in the assumed catalytic cycles. It seems to us that -hydride research in this field mainly focused on asymmetric versions,3 elimination, the key step for Wacker oxidation of alkenes, the use of molecular oxygen as the sole oxidant,4 and/or might be difficult for similar reactions of alkynes. Thus, nucleophiles other than oxygen-based groups,5,6 which have led to remarkable progress in this field. (3) For representative examples, see: (a) Hosokawa, T.; Uno, T.; Inui, S.; Murahashi, S.-I. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1981, 103, 2318–2323. (b) Uozumi, † Soochow University. Y.; Kato, K.; Hayashi, T. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 5063–5064. (c) ‡ Testing and Analysis Center of Soochow University. Uozumi, Y.; Kato, K.; Hayashi, T. J. Org. Chem. 1998, 63, 5071–5075. § Nanjing University. (d) Uozumi, Y.; Kyota, H.; Kato, K.; Ogasawara, M.; Hayashi, T. J. Org. (1) For recent reviews, see: (a) Tsuji, J. Pure Appl. Chem. 1999, 71, Chem. 1999, 64, 1620–1625. (e) Arai, M. A.; Kuraishi, M.; Arai, T.; Sasai, 1539–1547. (b) Takacs, J. 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Optimization of Reaction Conditions more, the 1,2-diketones, oxidation products of alkynes, are very important structural moieties in numerous biologically interesting compounds8 and are broadly utilized for construc- tion of complex structures in organic synthesis.9 Although several methods have been reported for the oxidation of b entry Pd(OAc02 cocatalyst oxidant solvent yield alkynes,10 these reactions are still suffering from drawbacks 1 PdCl CuCl O DMF/H O 21% such as harsh conditions, narrow substrate scope, low yield, 2 2 2 2 2 Pd(OAc)2 Cu(OAc)2 O2 DMF/H2O0% and/or chemoselectivity. Thus, developing a new and efficient 3 PdBr2 CuBr2 O2 DMF/H2O 72% protocol for clean catalytic oxidation of alkynes is still highly 4 PdBr2 CuBr2 O2 Dioxane/H2O 97% 5 - CuBr2 O2 Dioxane/H2O0% c desirable. In this communication, we report the Wacker-type 6 PdBr2 -- Dioxane/H2O0% - oxidation of alkynes, which affords 1,2-diketones using 7 PdBr2 CuBr2 Dioxane/H2O8% 8 PdBr CuBr O THF/H O 48% molecular oxygen as the stoichiometric oxidant under mild 2 2 2 2 9 PdBr2 CuBr2 O2 DMF/H2O 72% conditions. 10 PdBr2 CuBr2 O2 DME/H2O 52% 11 PdBr2 CuBr2 O2 EA/H2O 15% We launched our efforts to develop the Wacker-type i 12 PdBr2 CuBr2 O2 PrOH/H2O 15% oxidation of alkynes under typical conditions employed for 13 PdBr2 CuBr2 O2 MeCN/H2O 28% 14 PdBr CuBr O CH NO /H O0% alkenes. Reaction of 1,2-diphenylethyne in DMF/H2Ointhe 2 2 2 3 2 2 15 PdBr CuBr O Acetone/H O 18% presence of a catalytic amount of PdCl and CuCl afforded 2 2 2 2 2 2 16 PdBr2 CuBr2 air Dioxane/H2O 76% benzyl 2a in 21% yield (Table 1, entry 1). Despite the modest 17 PdBr2 CuBr2 benzoquinone Dioxane/H2O 89% yield obtained, the initial test result was quite encouraging 18 PdBr2 CuBr2 PhI(OAc)2 Dioxane/H2O 30% 19 PdBr2 CuBr2 H2O2 Dioxane/H2O 12% d since it attested the feasibility of Wacker-type oxidation of 20 PdBr2 CuBr2 TBHP Dioxane/H2O 18% alkynes. An extensive screening of the reaction parameters 21 PdBr2 CuBr2 DMSO Dioxane/H2O 14% 22e PdBr CuBr O Dioxane/H O 91% indicated that the catalysts, cocatalysts, oxidants, and solvents 2 2 2 2 a 0.2 mmol 1a, 5 mol % catalyst, 10 mol % cocatalyst. b Isolated yield. all play critical roles on the reaction efficiency. The best c Deoxybenzoin 3 was achieved in 30% yield. d TBHP: tert-butyl result was obtained by treating 1,2-diphenylethyne with 5 hydroperoxide. e 60 mmol 1a was used. mol % of PdBr2 and 10 mol % of CuBr2 in dioxane/H2O under 1 atm of oxygen atmosphere, with a yield of 97% for functional groups, including halide, ketone, aldehyde, nitro, 2a. It should be noted that using air in place of oxygen could benzylic C-H bond, trifluoromethyl, ester, etc., could be also give good yield of the product (Table 1, entry 16). Next, tolerated. Apart from the diarylalkynes, alkynes bearing one the practical utility of this oxidation process was evaluated, or two aliphatic substituents were also suitable substrates and up to 91% yield could be achieved on a scale of 60 under standard oxidation conditions, affording the corre- mmol 1a (Table 1, entry 22). Another feature of the reaction sponding diketone products in moderate to good yields (Table was that the use of molecular oxygen as the oxidant was 2, entries 9-12). Although alkyne with a fused aromatic ring essential for high conversion, as demonstrated by the fact showed lower reactivity under the optimal conditions, product that the yields decreased when other oxidants were employed 2g was isolated in high yield at elevated temperature (Table (Table 1, entries 17-21). 2, entry 6). With the optimized reaction conditions in hand, we began It is remarkable that the aryl bromide was a compatible to examine the scope of this new Wacker-type oxidation of substrate in this transformation given its important synthetic alkynes. As shown in Table 2, this transformation was highly application, as C-Br of the product could be further efficient for a broad scope of substrates, wherein various functionalized (Table 2, entry 2). It was also mechanistically - (5) (a) Hegedus, L. S.; Allen, G. F.; Bozell, J. J.; Waterman, E. L. J. Am. interesting, as it is well-known that the C Br bond is quite Chem. Soc. 1978, 100, 5800–5807. (b) Hosokawa, T.; Takano, M.; Kuroki, sensitive under a Pd(0)/(II) catalytic cycle. Furthermore, Y.; Murahashi, S.-I. Tetrahedron Lett. 1992, 33, 6643–6646. (c) Larock, R. C.; Hightower, T. R.; Hasvold, L. A.; Peterson, K. P. J. Org. Chem. when alcohol and aldehyde, usually reactive under tradi- 1996, 61, 3584–3585. (d) Lei, A.; Liu, G.; Lu, X. J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 974–980. (e) Bar, G. L. J.; Lloyd-Jones, G. C.; Booker-Milburn, K. I.
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