A New Palladium Precatalyst Allows for the Fast Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling Reactions of Unstable Polyfluorophenyl and 2- Heteroaryl Boronic Acids

Boronic acids which quickly deboronate under basic conditions, such as polyfluorophenylboronic acid and five-membered 2-heteroaromatic boronic acids, are especially challenging coupling partners for Suzuki−Miyaura reactions. Nevertheless, being able to use these substrates is highly desirable for a number of applications. Having found that monodentate biarylphosphine ligands can promote these coupling processes, we developed a precatalyst that forms the catalytically active species under conditions where boronic acid decomposition is slow. With this precatalyst, Suzuki−Miyaura reactions of a wide range of (hetero)aryl chlorides, bromides, and triflates with polyfluorophenyl, 2-furan, 2-thiophene, and 2-pyrroleboronic acids and their analogues proceed at room temperature or 40 °C in short reaction times to give the desired products in excellent yields.National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (GM46059)Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowshi

Contrasting reactivity of fluoropyridines at palladium and platinum: C-F oxidative addition at palladium, P-C and C-F activation at platinum

The divergent behavior of palladium(0) and platinum(0) is revealed in the reactivity of [M(PR3)2] (M = Pd or Pt; R = Cy or iPr) toward pentafluoropyridine and 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoropyridine. The palladium complexes react with pentafluoropyridine at 100 °C to yield the fluoride complexes trans-[Pd(F)(4-C5NF4)(PR3)2]. They do not react with 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoropyridine. The reaction of platinum(0) complexes [Pt(PR3)2] with pentafluoropyridine in THF at ambient temperature yields trans-[Pt(R)(4-C5NF4)(PR3)(PFR2)] complexes, whereas the reaction of [Pt(PCy3)2] with 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoropyridine results in C−H activation to form cis-[Pt(H)(4-C5NF4)(PCy3)2]; this complex may be converted to the trans isomer by photolysis. The cis-hydride also forms during the reaction of [Pt(PCy3)2] with C5NF5 in hexane. These reactions also contrast with earlier studies of the reactivity of the same substrates toward {Ni(PEt3)2}, which yield [Ni(F)(2-C5NF5)(PEt3)2] with pentafluoropyridine and [Ni(F)(2-C5NF4H)(PEt3)2] with tetrafluoropyridine. Thus palladium has different regioselectivity from nickel and is the least reactive. Platinum is capable of both C−F and C−H activation and is alone in the triad in undergoing rearrangement to the alkyl complex with the fluorophosphine ligand. Mechanisms for the rearrangement are proposed. The platinum dihydride complex trans-[Pt(H)2(PR3)2] reacts with pentafluoropyridine at room temperature, yielding a 1:1:1 mixture of trans-[PtH(FHF)(PR3)2], trans-[Pt(H)(4-C5NF4)(PR3)2], and trans-[Pt(R)(4-C5NF4)(PR3)(PFR2)]. Crystal structures are reported for trans-[Pd(F)(4-C5NF4)(PCy3)2]·H2O·C6H6, trans-[Pd(F)(4-C5NF4)(PiPr3)2], trans-[Pt(C6H11)(4-C5NF4)(PCy3)(PFCy2)]· CH2Cl2, and cis-[Pt(H)(4-C5NF4)(PCy3)2]