Preparation of mono-substituted malonic acid half oxyesters (SMAHOs).

The use of mono-substituted malonic acid half oxyesters (SMAHOs) has been hampered by the sporadic references describing their preparation. An evaluation of different approaches has been achieved, allowing to define the best strategies to introduce diversity on both the malonic position and the ester function. A classical alkylation step of a malonate by an alkyl halide followed by a monosaponification gave access to reagents bearing different substituents at the malonic position, including functionalized derivatives. On the other hand, the development of a monoesterification step of a substituted malonic acid derivative proved to be the best entry for diversity at the ester function, rather than the use of an intermediate Meldrum acid. Both these transformations are characterized by their simplicity and efficiency, allowing a straightforward access to SMAHOs from cheap starting materials

Couplages C-C utilisant des triarylbismuthines catalysés par le PEPPSI

Les réactions de couplage métallocatalysées mises en avant par l'attribution du Prix Nobel de Chimie 2010 permettent la création de liaison C-C impossible par les réactions de type SN1 ou SN2. Or, les composés auxquels elles donnent accès sont très utilisés dans le domaine pharmaceutique, agrochimique ou encore dans celui de la chimie supramoléculaire. Si les réactions sont efficaces, les agents de couplages sont souvent peu accessibles et/ou peu éco(nomique/logique)-compatibles. Les triarylbismuthines lèvent en partie ces limitations, car tous les atomes de ces organométalliques participent aux processus et ces composés sont considérés comme non toxiques mais les réactions engageant ce type d'organométalliques souffrent de leur dimérisation. Afin de lever cette limitation, nous avons développé un système catalytique plus " vert" utilisant le PEPPSI comme pré-catalyseur sur une réaction test. Ces nouvelles conditions donnent généralement d'excellents rendements en série biarylique comme hétérobiarylique. La gamme des substituants sur le dérivé halogéné est très étendue mais plus limitée sur la bismuthine. Ce système catalytique a ensuite été utilisé sans modification dans les réactions domino d'élimination/couplage. Une étude cinétique comparative par GC/MS et RMN 13C a permis de montrer qu'une élimination d'ordre 2 avait lieu avant le couplage. De plus il y a un effet coopératif entre les ions fluorures et la bismuthine : celle-ci joue donc un double rôle : agent organométallique doux de couplage et base. L'ambiguïté mécanistique ainsi levée, il a été permis d'envisager une chimiosélectivité en fonction des divers états d'hybridation du carbone portant le brome au moment du couplage. Plusieurs méthodes d'accès à des molécules de structures Ar-Ar-C C-Ar à géométries variables peuvent être obtenues rapidement. Le système catalytique a également permet l'activation de liaison C-Br de bromocoumarines. Ainsi, il est possible de réaliser le couplage sur les positions 3-, 4- et 6-. L'ordre de réactivité a été déterminé ce qui a permis de réaliser des monocouplages parfaitement sélectifs sur les 3,4- ou 3,6- dibromocoumarines, dont les applications biologiques suscitent un grand intérêt. Le nouveau système catalytique a donc éliminé le problème de dimérisation des triarylbismuthines et donne potentiellement accès à des molécules intéressantes pour leurs propriétés physiques ou biologiquesMetallocatalysed crosscoupling reactions have been highlighted by the attribution of the 2010 Nobel Chemistry Price since they allow CC bond formation when classical SN1 or SN2 do not permit it. Furthermore, they give access to many pharmaceutics and agronomic compounds but also molecules used for their supramolecular properties. Nowadays, reactions are really efficient but reactants are not always readily accessible and can't be classified as green reagents. Since all its atoms act over the catalytic process and because they are not considered as toxic so far, triarylbismuthines may be a good alternative to circumvent the limitation described above. However, they suffer a main drawback, their reductive dimerisation. In order to avoid this side-reaction, a new greenest process has been developed on a benchmark reaction based on PEPPSI, an NHC/Pd catalyst. These conditions gave usually excellent yields, either for the biaryle or heterobiaryle crosscoupling reaction. The range of substituents is really wide on the aryle halide moiety but slightly more limited on the triarylbismuthine reagents. Then, this catalytic process has been applied without modification to an elimination/crosscoupling domino reaction. A GC/MS and 13C NMR supported comparative kinetic study showed that a 2nd order elimination take place before the C-C bond formation. Fluoride anion and triarylbismuthine act together. Therefore triarylbismuthine play a dual role: base and aryl transfer reagent. This mechanism study led to chimioselective reactions that allow many paths for the synthesis of Ar-Ar-C C-Ar containing compounds with a good control on geometry of this highly conjugated structure. This catalytic process allows also bromocoumarine C-Br bond activation. Thus, crosscoupling may be selectively performed at the 3-, 4- or 6- position of coumarines. The reactivity order difference of these positions even allow hightly selective mono crosscoupling reaction on 3,4- or 3,6-dibromocoumarines for further biological application. To conclude, our PEPPSI based greenest process avoid the dimerisation of bismuthines and give easy access to many compounds of great interest either for their biological or physical propertiesPARIS-EST-Université (770839901) / SudocSudocFranceF

Préparation de dérivés aryl- et hétéroaryl- pyridazine(s) par voies organométalliques chimiques ou électrochimiques

Les hétérocycles aromatiques sont des motifs structuraux rencontrés dans un grand nombre de substances d'intérêts biologiques ou pharmacologiques. Plus particulièrement, les pyridazines substituées font l'objet d'un intérêt grandissant pour leurs propriétés pharmaceutiques (antibactériens, anti-inflammatoires, médicaments cardiovasculaires ). De plus, les structures comportant des pyridazines peuvent également être utilisées en tant qu'agents chélatants de cations métalliques et s'ordonner en édifices utilisés en chimie supramoléculaire.Nous nous sommes donc intéressés à l'élaboration d'éléments de base comportant des cycles pyridaziniques de type aryl ou hétéroarylpyridazines. La mise au point de méthodes impliquant des espèces organométalliques a été l'un de nos objectifs primordial. L'élaboration de ces composés a été réalisée par formation de liaisons C-C. Une approche électrochimique d'hétérocouplage associé à une catalyse au nickel a été utilisée. Quelques limites à cette méthode ont cependant été observées dans le cas des couplages mettant en jeu des 3,6-dihalogénopyridazines. Une étude par électrochimie analytique a permis d'en comprendre les raisons. La seconde partie de notre travail a consisté en l'étude de la réactivité d'arylzinciques ou de triarylbismuths vis-à-vis de 3,6-dihalogénopyridazinesHeteroaromatic rings are present in various biological and pharmacological active molecules. Substituted aryl-pyridazines have given rise to considerable interest because of their diverse pharmacological properties (antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, cardiovascular drugs ). Moreover, structures which contain pyridazines are used in supramolecular chemistry for their applications through self-assembly processes in the presence of metal ions. In order to elaborate building blocks containing pyridazine rings such as aryl or heteroaryl-pyridazines, we turned our intention on the development of complementary methods involving organometallic reagents. Transition metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of organometallic compounds with organic halides is one of the most powerful methods for the generation of C-C bonds.We chose to develop the most straightforward method involves heterocoupling reaction of aryl/heteroaryl compounds under electrochemical conditions (sacrificial anode process) associated to a nickel catalysis. However some limitations have been pointed out when 3,6-dihalogenopyridazines are involved in the cross-coupling reaction. An electrochemical study was investigated in order to propose some mechanistic considerations. A second part of this work consisted in the study of arylzinc and triarylbismuths reagents toward 3,6-dihalogenopyridazinesPARIS-EST-Université (770839901) / SudocSudocFranceF

Cobalt-Salen Catalyzed Electroreductive Alkylation of Activated Olefins

Cobalt-Salen mediated electroreductive and regioselective alkylation of electron deficient olefins is reported in one step in an undivided electrochemical cell, in the presence of an iron rod as sacrificial anode. Although the reactivity depends on the class of alkyl halides, the reported study offers a green and expeditious electrosynthetic route for Csp3-Csp3 bond formation in mild conditions. This study also confirms the possible formation of the heterobinuclear cobalt-Salen-iron complex previously reported as the effective catalyst

Access to a new family of medium ring aromatic lactones

We report a new method for preparation of hydroxyacids as precursors of benzolactones using a simple and an efficient electrochemical step. This gives in only four steps six-to eleven-membered lactones with high isolated yields from conveniently substituted aryl bromides. The lactonisation was performed according to the Yamamoto's process

Three-phenyl transfer in palladium-catalyzed C C coupling reactions by triarylbismuths: A mechanistic study

International audienceThe unusual reactivity of organobismuth compounds in cross-coupling processes, where they act as multi-aryl sources, opens up new and exciting possibilities in the field of organic synthesis. In particular, the high reactivity of arylbismuths in multifold couplings with arylhalides suggests that three catalytic cycles occur simultaneously. Here, we carry out a computational investigation of a cross-coupling model reaction between bromobenzene (Ph-Br) and triphenylbismuthine (Ph3Bi), catalyzed by Pd(0). The energetic profile evidences the exergonic behavior of the overall reaction with a ΔrG of −38.2 kcal mol−1, in good agreement with the experimental results. Moreover, the largest activation energy (39.8 kcal mol−1) is found for the first Ph3Bi aryl transfer (PhP’1Ph1 → PhP’2Ph1), identified as the rate-determining step. Additional dynamical computations on these potential profiles are needed to confirm these findings. We expect this research to allow for a better understanding of organobismuth palladium-catalyzed CC coupling reactions and organobismuth chemistry in general

On the planarity of benzyl cyanide

International audienceThe microwave spectra of benzyl cyanide, C6H5CH2CN, were recorded using a molecular jet Fourier transform microwave spectrometer operating in the frequency range 2–26.5 GHz. Analyses of the 14N quadrupole hyperfine structures were performed simultaneously with the rotational frequencies. Rotational constants, centrifugal distortion constants, and nuclear quadrupole coupling constants χaa and χbb − χcc were all determined with very high accuracy in a fit containing 465 lines with standard deviation within the measurement accuracy. Results from quantum chemical calculations at many levels of theory employing the MP2 method indicate a non-planar heavy atom skeleton structure, where the CH2CN group is tilted up to 50° with respect to the phenyl ring. This conflicts with results from many calculations employing density functional theory methods and also with the conclusion of a previous microwave spectroscopic work (X.-Z. Liu, R.K. Bohn, S.A. Sorenson, N.S. True, J. Mol. Struct. 243 (1991) 325–339), stating that the CH2CN group and the phenyl ring are in-plane. By comparing the planar defect with those of several planar molecules reported in the literature, and with extensive support from quantum chemistry, we present for the first time evidence suggesting that the heavy atom structure of benzyl cyanide is probably not planar

Some mechanistic aspects of a nickel-catalyzed electrochemical cross-coupling between aryl halides and substituted chloropyridazines

The nickel-2,2'-bipyridine catalyzed electrochemical cross-coupling reaction between an aryl halide and a chloropyridazine was investigated by an electrochemical study The electrochemical behavior of the divalent nickel complex is affected by the presence of pyridazine rings which act as co-ligands of nickel Cyclic voltammetry indicates that the cross-coupling reaction involves first a rapid oxidative addition of the chloropyridazine on the electrogenerated zerovalent nickel complex. The coupling product is then obtained by reaction with the aryl halide. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved