Next Article in Journal
The Effect of Chinese Agarwood Essential Oil with Cyclodextrin Inclusion against PCPA-Induced Insomnia Rats
Next Article in Special Issue
Recent Advances in Asymmetric Catalysis Associated with B(C6F5)3
Previous Article in Journal
Recent Advances on Small-Molecule Antagonists Targeting TLR7
Previous Article in Special Issue
Dimerization/Elimination of β-Styrylmalonates under Action of TiCl4
 
 
Search for Articles:
Title / Keyword
Author / Affiliation / Email
Journal
Article Type
 
 
Advanced Search
 
Section
Special Issue
Volume
Issue
Number
Page
 
Journals
Molecules
Volume 28
Issue 2
10.3390/molecules28020636
molecules-logo
Submit to this Journal Review for this Journal Propose a Special Issue
► Article Menu

Article Menu

share Share announcement Help format_quote Cite question_answer Discuss in SciProfiles thumb_up
...
Endorse textsms
...
Comment
first_page
settings
Order Article Reprints
Font Type:
Arial Georgia Verdana
Font Size:
Aa Aa Aa
Line Spacing:
Column Width:
Background:
Article

Nickel-Catalyzed Suzuki Coupling of Phenols Enabled by SuFEx of Tosyl Fluoride

by
Huimin Wang
,
Shuqin Zhang
,
Minling Xü
and
Gang Zou
*
School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Rd, Shanghai 200237, China
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Molecules 2023, 28(2), 636; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28020636
Submission received: 21 December 2022 / Revised: 3 January 2023 / Accepted: 4 January 2023 / Published: 7 January 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Organic Chemistry)
Browse Figures
Versions Notes

Abstract

:
A practical and efficient Suzuki coupling of phenols has been developed by using trans-NiCl(o-Tol)(PCy3)2/2PCy3 as a catalyst in the presence of tosyl fluoride as an activator. The key for the direct use of phenols lies in the compatibility of the nickel catalyst with tosyl fluoride (TsF) and its sulfur(VI) fluoride exchange (SuFEx) with CAr-OH. Water has been found to improve the one-pot process remarkably. The steric and electronic effects and the functional group compatibility of the one-pot Suzuki coupling of phenols appear to be comparable to the conventional one of pre-prepared aryl tosylates. A series of electronically and sterically various biaryls could be obtained in good to excellent yields by using 3–10 mol% loading of the nickel catalyst. The applications of this one-pot procedure in chemoselective derivatization of complex molecules have been demonstrated in 3-phenylation of estradiol and estrone.

Graphical Abstract

1. Introduction

Construction of biaryls has attracted the most interest in applications of Suzuki coupling because of their ubiquitousness in important fine chemicals, e.g., pharmaceuticals [1,2], advanced organic materials [3], pesticides, etc. [4]. Since the seminal report from Percec using aryl tosylates in Suzuki coupling [5], many efforts have been devoted to using O-based pseudohalides, e.g., triflates [6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14], sulfonates [15], carbonate [16], sulfamates [16], carbamates [16,17,18], etc., as an alternative to aryl halides because of the good diversity, abundance, and availability of phenols [19]. Obviously, from the practical point of view, it is desirable to in situ form these phenol derivatives in the very Suzuki coupling system, instead of pre-preparing them in a separate step. In fact, several reports had described direct use of phenols in palladium or nickel-catalyzed Suzuki coupling through in situ formation of tosylates [20,21], nonaflates [22], pivalates [23], heteroaryl ethers [24], and even phenolic salts [25,26]. Comparing with palladium, nickel-based catalysts are not only less expensive but also have shown higher activities in Suzuki coupling of O-based pseudohalides [27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35]. However, the rich redox chemistry of nickel often makes nickel-based catalysts less compatible with the conditions and reagents required for in situ derivatization of CAr-OH in one-pot processes. Therefore, it is important to further develop CAr-OH activation for one-pot nickel-catalyzed Suzuki coupling of phenols to practically construct biaryls.
Sulfur(VI) fluoride exchange (SuFEx), the so-called second generation of click reaction [36,37,38,39], has proven to be a privileged protocol in activating phenolic CAr-OH group via chemoselective formation of sulfonates with SO2F-containing reagents in the presence of various other nucleophiles [37,40]. As a part of our continuous efforts to develop practical procedures for construction of biaryls from pseudohalides [41,42,43,44], we report herein a SuFEx enabled, nickel/phosphine catalyzed Suzuki coupling of phenols via in situ formation of tosylates with tosyl fluoride (TsF) using trans-NiCl(o-Tol)(PCy3)2/2PCy3 as a catalyst to practically and efficiently synthesize various biaryls with good functional group comparability.

2. Results and Discussion

The cheap, readily available and easy-to-handle tosyl fluoride (TsF) has been chosen as the sulfur(VI) fluoride in SuFEx for practical purposes. Using the reaction of 4-hydroxyacetophenone (1a) with phenylboronic acid (2a) as a model, although the common nickel dichloride/phosphine complexes NiCl2(PR3)2Cl2 (R = PPh3, PCy3, dppf) were almost inactive, an aryl nickel/phosphine catalyst, trans-NiCl(Ph)(PPh3)2 (cat-1), which had been established for efficient Suzuki coupling of tosylates [42,45], offered a promising result, giving the desired product 3aa in 26% yield with 5 mol% catalyst loading in the presence of K3PO4·3H2O in aqueous THF (THF/H2O = 4/1, vol/vol) (Table 1). Encouraged by the preliminary result of trans-NiCl(Ph)(PPh3)2, structural effects of the nickel complexes with respect to aryl and phosphine ligands were briefly explored to increase catalytic efficiency. A delicate balance between the steric hindrance of the aryl group and catalytic activity of the nickel catalysts was observed. For example, the phenyl groups bearing a small ortho alkyl substituent, i.e., trans-NiCl(o-Tol)(PPh3)2 (cat-2, 59%) and trans-NiCl(o-EtPh)(PPh3)2 (cat-3, 56%), as well as anthracen-9-yl (cat-6, 46%) could increase 3aa yields while naphthalen-1-yl (cat-7, 30%) and more sterically demanding aryls, e.g., 2-isopropylphenyl (cat-4, 20%) and 2,6-dimethylphenyl (cat-5, 17%), gave no improvement or even poorer results (Table 1, entries 2–8). The supporting phosphine ligand also played an important role in the catalytic activity of the aryl nickel complexes. The product (3aa) yields increased to 55% and 87% using tricyclohexylphosphine complexes of trans-NiCl(Ph)(PCy3)2 (cat-8) and trans-NiCl(o-Tol)(PCy3)2 (cat-9) from 26% and 59% with the triphenyl phosphine analogs, cat-1 and cat-2, respectively (Table 1, entries 2, 3, 9 and 10). In fact, the yield was further increased to 96% by using extra 10 mol% tricyclohexylphosphine ligand with 5 mol% trans-NiCl(o-Tol)(PCy3)2 (cat-9). A satisfactory yield (93%) could still be obtained by using 3 mol% trans-NiCl(o-Tol)(PCy3)2/2PCy3 although the reaction became slow and required 10 h to complete. Use of 1 mol% catalyst loading led to incomplete reaction within 12 h and a significantly lower yield (32%) for 3aa (Table 1, entries 11–13).
Water proved to be crucial for high catalytic efficiency. The desired product 3aa was isolated in a lower yield (83%) in pure THF solution using hydrous base, 5 equiv. K3PO4·3H2O, while only a 12% yield could be isolated in strict anhydrous conditions (Table 1, entries 14 and 15). Increasing the volume ratio of water to THF from 1/4 to 1/2 significantly decreased 3aa yield to 78%, possibly due to the limited solubility of the tosylate intermediate in water. Bases and organic co-solvents screening failed to improve the reaction comparing with the K3PO4·3H2O in THF/H2O system. A couple of common solvents, e.g., DMF, DMSO, toluene, DME, etc., gave lower yields while CH3CN and dioxane performed similarly to THF (Table 1, entries 19–25). K3PO4·3H2O appeared to be the choice of base. In fact, when weaker or stronger bases, e.g., K2CO3, KOAc, NaOH and KOH, were used to replace K3PO4·3H2O, much lower yields were obtained (Table 1, entries 26–29). No reaction was observed using NaF and KF as bases, excluding any positive role played by the SuFEx by-product fluoride in the system. Therefore, the optimal conditions for the SuFEx enabled Suzuki coupling of phenols were set as 3 mol% trans-NiCl(o-Tol)(PCy3)2/2PCy3 in THF/H2O (4/1, vol/vol) using 5 equiv. K3PO4·3H2O as base (Table 1, entry 12). A control experiment using 1.1 equiv. TsCl instead of TsF under the otherwise identical conditions confirmed the necessary role of SuFEx in the one-pot procedure. The nickel catalyst appeared to be completely deactivated by TsCl since no coupling product was detected while formation of tosylate intermediate could still take place. Indeed, when a second dose of the catalyst, 3 mol% trans-NiCl(o-Tol)(PCy3)2/2PCy3, was added to the very reaction mixture after TsCl was consumed, 3aa could be isolated in 57% yield after 6 h reaction.
With the optimal conditions in hand, the scope of the SuFEx enabled, nickel-catalyzed Suzuki coupling of phenols with arylboronic acids was briefly explored (Table 2). Given the fact that there are two sequential steps, i.e., tosylation via SuFEx and the following nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling, for the phenol counterpart in the one-pot procedure, the structural effects of phenols were investigated at first. Phenols bearing 4-CO2Et (1b, 96%) or 4-CN (1c, 95%) group at para-position reacted similarly to 1a (4-Ac) affording the products 4-ethoxycarbonylbiphenyl (3ba, 96%) and 4-cyanobiphenyl (3ca, 95%) in excellent yields, respectively, while the 4-NO2 (1d) substituted one gave a low yield (45%).
Similar to the report in literature [46], 4-biphenyl aldehyde (3ea) appeared to be labile to air-oxidation to acid and was isolated in only 50% yield along with carboxylic acid in 42% yield. A modest yield (40%) was obtained for 4-chlorobiphenyl (3ga) because of the intramolecular competition between CAr-Cl and the 4-tosyloxy groups in 1g [47,48,49], consistent with the comparable reactivities of aryl tosylates to chlorides in nickel-catalyzed Suzuki coupling. In fact, the by-products 4-tosyloxybiphenyl and 4-phenylbiphenyl were also obtained in 35% and 12% yields, respectively. Phenols with electron-rich and electron-neutral substituents, such as 4-CH(CH3)2 (1h) and 4-OMe (1i), displayed low reactivities and required 10 mol% catalyst loading to reach good yields (3ha, 90% and 3ia, 90%). The amino group (4-NH2, 3ja, 18%) obviously disturbed the tosylation of phenolic OH group, while the CAr-OH group could be preferentially coupled in the presence of an aliphatic hydroxyl group (1l), and the desired product 3la could be obtained in 74% yield. ortho-Substituted phenols gave lower yields than para-substituted analogs e.g., 3ma (o-Ac, 70%), 3na (o-CHO, 38%), 3pa (o-tBu, 16%), 3qa (o-OMe, 30%) and 3ra (o-OMe, 40%), although the yields 3pa (o-tBu, 43%), 3qa (o-OMe, 65%), and 3ra (o-OMe, 86%) could increase with 10 mol% catalyst loading, indicating a large steric effect from phenol substrates. Furthermore, when catechol 1s was investigated, biphenyl-2-yl tosylate (3sa, 93%) was isolated as a sole cross-coupling product even with 2.5 equiv. TsF and phenylboronic acid (2a), indicating that it is the cross-coupling step, instead of tosylation via SuFEx, should be sensitive to the steric hindrance. In contrast, 4-phenylbiphenyl (3ta) could be obtained in 94% yield from hydroquinone (1t) under the otherwise identical conditions for catechol. 3-Phenylation of estradiol (1u) and estrone (1v) clearly demonstrated the feasibility of this one-pot Suzuki coupling of phenols in chemoselective derivatization of complex molecules.
Unlike the large structural effects of phenol counterpart, electronically and sterically various aryl boronic acids could be cross-coupled smoothly to provide biaryls in good to excellent yields. Aryl boronic acids bearing an electron-donating group, e.g., 4-Me (2b, 95%) or 4-OMe (2d, 90%) appeared to be some more reactive than their analogs with an electron-withdrawing group, e.g., 4-CF3 (2f, 74%) or 4-CHO (2g, 80%). Steric hindrance from aryl boronic acids could be also tolerated to a large extent. For example, 2-Et (2h), 2-CH(CH3)2 (2i), 2-Ph (2j) and 2-CHO (2k) phenyl boronic acids reacted with 1a to give 3ah, 3ai, 3aj, and 3ak in 91%, 87%, 72%, and 68% yields, respectively. 2-Thiophenyl (2l) and 3-furanyl boronic acids (2m) could also react to give the products (3al, 79%) and (3am, 75%), although 3-pyridyl boronic acid failed, possibly, at least in part, due to its poor solubility.
Given the small structural effects from aryl boronic acid counterpart, we anticipated that the other aryl boron reagents, e.g., the shelf-stable and easy-to-handle derivatives of aryl boronic acids, potassium trifluoroboronates, N-methyliminodiacetic acid (MIDA) boronates or boronic acid pinacol esters, and the cost-effective diarylborinic acids, should be also usable in the one-pot procedure. In fact, excellent yields could be obtained for 3aa with potassium phenyltrifluoroboronate (PhBF3K, 1.3 equiv.), phenylboronic acid pinacol ester (PhB(pin), 1.3 equiv.), and diphenyl borinic acid (Ph2B(OH), 0.6 equiv.), although MIDA phenylboronate and sodium tetraphenylboronate failed (Scheme 1).
A plausible mechanism has been proposed for the nickel-catalyzed Suzuki coupling of phenols enabled by SuFEx of tosyl fluoride (Scheme 2). Given the observation of the homocoupling product of aryl boronic acids, the aryl nickel(II) di(phosphine) complexes are most likely reduced to nickel(0) phosphine complexes, which require 2 equiv. more phosphine ligand to be stable, by aryl boronic acids via sequential transmetalation and reductive elimination. The facts that sharply different structural effects of phenol vs. boron counterparts, as well as the isolation of biphenyl-2-yl tosylate as a sole product from catechol, imply that the oxidative addition of nickel to tosylate intermediates, instead of the SuFEx or aryl transmetalation from boron, should be the rate-determining step in the catalytic cycle. The better performance of electron-richer PCy3 than PPh3 and the requirement of extra 2 equiv. PCy3 with respect to trans-NiCl(o-Tol)(PCy3)2 support the speculation of rate-determining oxidative addition of tosylate intermediate to the nickel(0) species.

3. Materials and Methods

3.1. General Information

All reactions were carried out under nitrogen by using standard Schlenk techniques unless otherwise stated. Commercially available chemicals were used as received without further purification. Nickel complexes, Cat 1–Cat 9, were prepared according to previously reported procedures [45,50,51]. The reaction progress was monitored by TLC. Column chromatograph was performed on 300–400 mesh silica gel. 1H and 13C NMR spectra were recorded in CDCl3 or Acetone-d6 at ambient temperature on a Bruker DPX-400 spectrometer (Bruker BioSpin GmbH, Germany). Chemical shifts (δ) in NMR are reported in ppm, relative to the internal standard of tetramethylsilane (TMS) or residues of the deuterated solvents. Coupling constants J are reported in Hz. Proton coupling patterns were described as singlet (s), doublet (d), triplet (t), quartet (q), and multiple (m). High-resolution mass spectra (HRMS) were measured with an Agilent mass spectrometer (HR-TOF-MS, EI).

3.2. General Procedure for Nickel/Phosphine Catalyzed Suzuki Coupling of Phenols with Aryl Boronic Acids Enabled by SuFEx of TsF

To a 25 mL dry flask were added phenol 1 (1.0 mmol), aryl boronic acid 2 (1.3 mmol), TsF (1.1 mmol, 0.193g), trans-NiCl(o-Tol)(PCy3)2 (3 mol%, 0.022g), PCy3 (6 mol%, 0.017g), and K3PO4·3H2O (5.0 mmol, 1.332g). The air in the flask was replaced by N2 using standard Schlenk techniques before solvents THF (4.0 mL) and H2O (1.0 mL) were added by a syringe. The mixture was stirred under N2 atmosphere at 70 °C (bath temperature) for a given time or monitored by TLC until the reaction completed. The reaction mixture was diluted with CH2Cl2 (15 mL), followed by washing with H2O (3 × 10 mL). The organic layer was separated, dried over anhydrous Na2SO4, filtered, and evaporated under reduced pressure to give a crude product, which was purified by column chromatography on silica gel to afford biaryl compound 3.
All known products were characterized by comparing their NMR with those reported in literature and the new compound, 2-tosyloxybiphenyl (3sa), was further characterized by HRMS. For details, see Supplementary Materials.

4. Conclusions

In summary, a practical Suzuki coupling of phenols enabled by SuFEx of tosyl fluoride has been developed by using trans-NiCl(o-Tol)(PCy3)2/2PCy3 as catalyst in the presence of 5 equiv. K3PO4·3H2O in aqueous THF. Both aryl and phosphine ligands in the aryl nickel complexes have proven to affect their catalytic performance significantly. Water in the system has also been found to play an important role for high catalytic efficiency. Large structural effects from phenols have been observed while the electronic and steric influences from the boron counterpart appeared to be comparably small, if not negligible. A series of electronically and sterically various biaryls could be obtained in good to excellent yields by using the SuFEx enabled, nickel-catalyzed one-pot Suzuki coupling, eliminating the pre-preparation of tosylates. The potentials to apply the practical one-pot procedure in derivatization of complex molecules have also been demonstrated.

Supplementary Materials

The following supporting information can be downloaded at: https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/molecules28020636/s1, Characterization data and copies of 1H & 13C NMR spectra of products (References [21,42,43,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62] are cited in the Supplementary Materials).

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, G.Z.; methodology, H.W. and M.X.; investigation, H.W. and S.Z.; writing—original draft preparation, H.W. and M.X.; writing—review and editing, G.Z.; supervision, G.Z.; project administration, G.Z.; All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research received no external funding.

Institutional Review Board Statement

Not applicable.

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

Data are in the Supplementary Materials.

Acknowledgments

This work was performed using the equipment of ECUST.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Sample Availability

Samples of the products are available from the authors.

References

  1. Zhuang, Y.; Wachall, B.G.; Hartmann, R.W. Novel imidazolyl and triazolyl substituted biphenyl compounds: Synthesis and evaluation as nonsteroidal inhibitors of human 17α-hydroxylase-C17, 20-lyase. Bioorgan. Med. Chem. 2000, 8, 1245–1252. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  2. Kerdesky, F.A.J.; Leanna, M.R.; Zhang, J.; Li, W.K.; Lallaman, J.E.; Ji, J.G.; Morton, H.E. An efficient multikilogram synthesis of ABT-963: A selective COX-2 inhibitor. Org. Process Res. Dev. 2006, 10, 512–517. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  3. Song, K.C.; Kim, H.; Lee, K.M.; Lee, Y.S.; Do, Y.; Lee, M.H. Ratiometric fluorescence sensing of fluoride ions by triarylborane-phenanthroimidazole conjugates. Sens. Actuators B Chem. 2013, 176, 850–857. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  4. Torborg, C.; Beller, M. Recent applications of palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and fine chemical industries. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2009, 351, 3027–3043. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  5. Percec, V.; Bae, J.-Y.; Hill, D.H. Aryl mesylates in metal catalyzed homocoupling and cross-coupling reactions. 2. Suzuki-type nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling of aryl arenesulfonates and aryl mesylates with arylboronic acids. J. Organomet. Chem. 1995, 60, 1060–1065. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  6. Wolfe, J.P.; Tomori, H.; Sadighi, J.P.; Yin, J.J.; Buchwald, S.L. Simple, efficient catalyst system for the palladium-catalyzed amination of aryl chlorides, bromides, and triflates. J. Organomet. Chem. 2000, 65, 1158–1174. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  7. Zim, D.; Lando, V.R.; Dupont, J.; Monteiro, A.L. NiCl2(PCy3)2: A simple and efficient catalyst precursor for the Suzuki cross-coupling of aryl tosylates and arylboronic acids. Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 3049–3051. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  8. Huang, X.H.; Anderson, K.W.; Zim, D.; Jiang, L.; Klapars, A.; Buchwald, S.L. Expanding Pd-catalyzed C-N bond-forming processes: The first amidation of aryl sulfonates, aqueous amination, and complementarity with Cu-catalyzed reactions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 6653–6655. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  9. Nguyen, H.N.; Huang, X.H.; Buchwald, S.L. The first general palladium catalyst for the Suzuki-Miyaura and carbonyl enolate coupling of aryl arenesulfonates. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 11818–11819. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  10. Tang, Z.-Y.; Hu, Q.-S. Room-temperature Ni(0)-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of aryl arenesulfonates with arylboronic acids. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 3058–3059. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  11. Munday, R.H.; Martinelli, J.R.; Buchwald, S.L. Palladium-catalyzed carbonylation of aryl tosylates and mesylates. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 2754–2755. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  12. Kuroda, J.-I.; Inamoto, K.; Hiroya, K.; Doi, T. N-heterocyclic carbene derived nickel-pincer complexes: Efficient and applicable catalysts for Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reactions of aryl/alkenyl tosylates and mesylates. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2009, 14, 2251–2261. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  13. Molander, G.A.; Beaumard, F. Nickel-catalyzed C-O activation of phenol derivatives with potassium heteroaryltrifluoroborates. Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 4022–4025. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Green Version]
  14. Gao, H.; Li, Y.; Zhou, Y.-G.; Han, F.-S.; Lin, Y.-J. Highly efficient Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of aryl tosylates and mesylates catalyzed by stable, cost-effective [1,3- bis(diphenylphosphino)propane] nickel(II) chloride [Ni(dppp)Cl2] with only 1 mol% loading. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2011, 353, 309–314. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  15. Li, X.M.; Zhang, T.T.; Hu, R.; Zhang, H.; Ren, C.Y.; Yuan, Z.L. A one-pot protocol for the fluorosulfonation and Suzuki coupling of phenols and bromophenols, streamlined access to biaryls and terphenyls. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2020, 18, 4748–4753. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  16. Quasdorf, K.W.; Riener, M.; Petrova, K.V.; Garg, N.K. Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of aryl carbamates, carbonates, and sulfamates. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 17748–17749. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Green Version]
  17. Antoft-Finch, A.; Blackburn, T.; Snieckus, V. N, N-diethyl O-carbamate: Directed metalation group and orthogonal Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling partner. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 17750–17752. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  18. Xu, L.; Li, B.-J.; Wu, Z.-H.; Lu, X.-Y.; Guan, B.-T.; Wang, B.-Q.; Zhao, K.-Q.; Shi, Z.-J. Nickel-catalyzed efficient and practical Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of alkenyl and aryl carbamates with aryl boroxines. Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 884–887. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  19. Mesganaw, T.; Garg, N.K. Ni-and Fe-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of phenol derivatives. Org. Process Res. Dev. 2013, 17, 29–39. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  20. Luo, Y.; Wu, J. Palladium-catalyzed direct arylation of 4-hydroxycoumarins with arylboronic acids via C-OH bond activation. Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 2103–2105. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  21. Chen, L.S.; Lang, H.Y.; Fang, L.; Zhu, M.Y.; Liu, J.Q.; Yu, J.J.; Wang, L.M. Nickel-catalyzed one-pot Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling of phenols and arylboronic acids mediated by N, N-ditosylaniline. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 23, 4953–4957. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  22. Ikawa, T.; Saito, K.; Akai, S. Palladium-catalyzed one-pot cross-coupling of phenols using nonafluorobutanesulfonyl fluoride. Synlett 2012, 23, 2241–2246. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  23. Quasdorf, K.W.; Tian, X.; Garg, N.K. Cross-coupling reactions of aryl pivalates with boronic acids. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 14422–14423. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  24. Madankar, K.; Mokhtari, J.; Mirjafary, Z. Dichloroimidazolidinedione-activated one-pot Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling of phenols. Appl. Organomet. Chem. 2020, 34, 5383–5389. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  25. Yu, D.-G.; Li, B.-J.; Zheng, S.-F.; Guan, B.-T.; Wang, B.-Q.; Shi, Z.-J. Direct application of phenolic salts to nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions with aryl Grignard reagents. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 4566–4570. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  26. Chen, G.-J.; Huang, J.; Gao, L.-X.; Han, F.-S. Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling of phenols and arylboronic acids through an in situ phenol activation mediated by PyBroP. Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 4038–4042. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  27. Rosen, B.M.; Quasdorf, K.W.; Wilson, D.A.; Zhang, N.; Resmerita, A.-M.; Garg, N.K.; Percec, V. Nickel-catalyzed cross-couplings involving carbon-oxygen bonds. Chem. Rev. 2011, 111, 1346–1416. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Green Version]
  28. Zhao, Y.-L.; Li, Y.; Li, S.-M.; Zhou, Y.-G.; Sun, F.-Y.; Gao, L.-X.; Han, F.-S. A highly practical and reliable nickel catalyst for Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of aryl halides. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2011, 353, 1543–1550. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  29. Lipshutz, B.H.; Sclafani, J.A.; Blomgren, P.A. Biaryls via Suzuki cross-couplings catalyzed by nickel on charcoal. Tetrahedron 2000, 56, 2139–2144. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  30. Fan, X.-H.; Yang, L.-M. Room-temperature nickel-catalysed Suzuki-Miyaura reactions of aryl sulfonates/halides with arylboronic acids. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2011, 8, 1467–1471. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  31. Chen, Q.; Fan, X.-H.; Zhang, L.-P.; Yang, L.-M. Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling of carboxylic anhydrides with arylboronic acids. RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 53885–53890. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  32. Chen, Q.; Fan, X.-H.; Zhang, L.-P.; Yang, L.-M. Ni(II) source as a pre-catalyst for the cross-coupling of benzylic pivalates with arylboronic acids: Facile access to tri- and diarylmethanes. RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 15338–15340. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  33. Jezorek, R.L.; Zhang, N.; Leowanawat, P.; Bunner, M.H.; Gutsche, N.; Pesti, A.K.R.; Olsen, J.T.; Percec, V. Air-stable nickel precatalysts for fast and quantitative cross-coupling of aryl sulfamates with aryl neopentylglycolboronates at room temperature. Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 6326–6329. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  34. Malineni, J.; Jezorek, R.L.; Zhang, N.; Percec, V. NiIICl(1-Naphthyl)(PCy3)2, an air-stable σ-NiII precatalyst for quantitative cross-coupling of aryl C-O electrophiles with aryl neopentylglycolboronates. Synthesis 2016, 48, 2808–2815. [Google Scholar]
  35. Malineni, J.; Jezorek, R.L.; Zhang, N.; Percec, V. An indefinitely air-stable σ-NiII precatalyst for quantitative cross-coupling of unreactive aryl halides and mesylates with aryl neopentylglycolboronates. Synthesis 2016, 48, 2795–2807. [Google Scholar]
  36. Li, B.-Y.; Voets, L.; Van Lommel, R.; Hoppenbrouwers, F.; Alonso, M.; Verhelst, S.H.L.; De Borggraeve, W.M.; Demaerel, J. SuFEx-enabled, chemoselective synthesis of triflates, triflamides and triflimidates. Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 2270–2279. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  37. Fattaha, T.A.; Saeeda, A.; Albericio, F. Recent advances towards sulfur (VI) fluoride exchange (SuFEx) click chemistry. J. Fluor. Chem. 2018, 213, 87–112. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  38. Barrow, A.S.; Smedley, C.J.; Zheng, Q.; Li, S.; Dong, J.; Moses, J.E. The growing applications of SuFEx click chemistry. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2019, 48, 4731–4758. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  39. Dong, J.J.; Krasnova, L.; Finn, M.G.; Sharpless, K.B. Sulfur(VI) fluoride exchange (SuFEx): Another good reaction for click chemistry. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 9430–9448. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  40. Hanley, P.S.; Ober, M.S.; Krasovskiy, A.L.; Whiteker, G.T.; Kruper, W.J. Nickel- and palladium-catalyzed coupling of aryl fluorosulfonates with aryl boronic acids enabled by sulfuryl fluoride. ACS Catal. 2015, 5, 5041–5046. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  41. Ke, H.; Chen, X.; Zou, G. N-Heterocyclic carbene-assisted, bis(phosphine)nickel catalyzed cross-couplings of diarylborinic acids with aryl chlorides, tosylates, and sulfamates. J. Organomet. Chem. 2014, 79, 7132–7140. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  42. Ren, C.; Zeng, J.S.; Zou, G. Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling of O, N-chelated diarylborinates with aryl chlorides and mesylates. New J. Chem. 2019, 43, 1589–1596. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  43. Guo, D.S.; Shi, W.J.; Zou, G. Suzuki coupling of activated aryltriazenes for practical synthesis of biaryls from anilines. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2022, 364, 2438–2442. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  44. Wang, F.Z.; Wang, C.; Sun, G.P.; Zou, G. Highly efficient palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of diarylborinic acids with arenediazoniums for practical diaryl synthesis. Tetrahedron Lett. 2020, 61, 151491. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  45. Fan, X.-H.; Yang, L.-M. NiII-(σ-Aryl) complex catalyzed Suzuki reaction of aryl tosylates with arylboronic acids. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 13, 2457–2460. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  46. Duczynski, J.; Sobolev, A.N.; Moggach, S.A.; Dorta, R.; Stewart, S.G. The synthesis and catalytic activity of new mixed NHC-phosphite nickel(0) complexes. Organometallics 2020, 39, 105–115. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  47. Wang, Z.-Y.; Chen, G.-Q.; Shao, L.X. N-heterocyclic carbene-palladium(II)-1-methylimidazole complex-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of aryl sulfonates with arylboronic acids. J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 77, 6608–6614. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  48. Chen, X.F.; Ke, H.H.; Zou, G. Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling of diarylborinic acids with aryl chlorides. ACS Catal. 2014, 4, 379–385. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  49. Entz, E.D.; Russell, J.E.A.; Hooker, L.V.; Neufeldt, S.R. Small phosphine ligands enable selective oxidative addition of Ar-O over Ar-Cl bonds at Nickel(0). J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 15454–15463. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  50. Standley, E.A.; Smith, S.J.; Müller, P.; Jamison, T.F. A broadly applicable strategy for entry into homogeneous nickel(0) catalysts from air-stable nickel(II) complexes. Organometallics 2014, 33, 2012–2018. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Green Version]
  51. Morvillo, A.; Turco, A. Reactions of organic halides and cyanides with bis(tricyclohexylphosphine) nickel(0). J. Organomet. Chem. 1981, 208, 103–113. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  52. Zhang. G. Efficient Protocol for the Phosphine-Free Suzuki-miyaura reaction catalyzed by palladium on carbon at room temperature. Synthesis 2005, 4, 537–542. [Google Scholar]
  53. Xu, T.F.; Lu, P.; Wohlrab, S.; Chen, W.X.; Springer, A.; Wu, X.F.; Lu, W.Y. In situ grown palladium nanoparticles on polyester fabric as easy-separable and recyclable catalyst for suzuki-miyaura reaction. Cat. Commun. 2021, 157, 106328–106333. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  54. Schmidt, A.; Rahimia, A. A versatile catalyst system for suzuki-miyaura syntheses of sterically hindered biaryls employing a cyclobutene-1,2-bis(imidazolium)salt. Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 2995–2997. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Green Version]
  55. Zhang, D.L.; Wu, F.S.; Wan, Z.J.; Wang, Y.C.; He, X.; Guo, B.; You, H.Z.; Chen, F.E. A palladium polyaniline complex: a simple and efficient catalyst for batch and flow suzuki-miyaura cross-couplings. Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 10845–10848. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  56. Woolard, K.J.; Sandala, J.L.; Melander, R.J.; Gunn, J. S. Melander, C. Development of small molecules that work cooperatively with ciprofloxacin to clear salmonella biofilms in a chronic gallbladder carriage model. Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2022, 232, 114203–114211. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  57. Zhang, L.Y.; Long, S.Y.; Jiao, H. B.; Liu, Z.Y.; Zhang, P.; Lei, A.W.; Gong, W.; Pei, X.L. Cellulose derived Pd nano-catalyst for efficient catalysis. RSC Adv. 2022, 12, 18676–18684. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  58. Watson, M.B.; Rath, N.P.; Mirica, L.M. Oxidative C-C bond formation reactivity of organometallic Ni(II), Ni(III), and Ni(IV) complexes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 35–38. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  59. Ohgi, A.; Semba, K.; Hiyama, T.; Nakao, Y. Silicon-based cross-coupling of aryl tosylates by cooperative palladium/copper catalysis. Chem. Lett. 2016, 45, 973–975. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  60. Rühl, P.; Rosato, A.S.; Urban, N.; Gerndt, S.; Tang, R. Abrahamian, C.; Leser, C.; Sheng, J.S.; Jha, A.; Vollmer, G.; Schaefer, M.; Bracher, F.; Grimm, C. Estradiol analogs attenuate autophagy, cell migration and invasion by direct and selective inhibition of trpml1, independent of estrogen receptors. Sci. Rep. 2021, 11, 8313–8326. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  61. Song, C.; Dong, X.; Wang, Z.J.; Liu, K.; Chiang, C.W.; Lei, A. Visible-light induced [4+2] annulation of thiophenes and alkynes to construct benzene rings. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 12206–12210. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  62. Hagiwara, H.; Sato, K.; Hoshi, T.; Suzuki, T. A highly sustainable and active catalyst for suzuki-miyaura reaction: palladium-supported ionic liquid catalyst (SILC) coated with polymer. Synlett 2011, 17, 2545–2550. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
Molecules 28 00636 sch001 550
Scheme 1. Cross-coupling of 1a with alternative phenyl boron compounds.
Scheme 1. Cross-coupling of 1a with alternative phenyl boron compounds.
Molecules 28 00636 sch001
Molecules 28 00636 sch002 550
Scheme 2. A plausible catalytic cycle for the nickel-catalyzed Suzuki coupling of phenols enabled by SuFEx of tosyl fluoride.
Scheme 2. A plausible catalytic cycle for the nickel-catalyzed Suzuki coupling of phenols enabled by SuFEx of tosyl fluoride.
Molecules 28 00636 sch002
Table
Table 1. Optimization of the SuFEx-enabled, Ni-catalyzed Suzuki coupling of phenols a.
Table 1. Optimization of the SuFEx-enabled, Ni-catalyzed Suzuki coupling of phenols a.
Molecules 28 00636 i001
EntryCat. (mol%)LigandBase (equiv.)Sol. (vol/vol)Yield(%) b
1NiCl2(PR3)2 (5) c/K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (4/1)trace
2cat-1 (5)/K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (4/1)26
3cat-2 (5)/K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (4/1)59
4cat-3 (5)/K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (4/1)56
5cat-4 (5)/K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (4/1)20
6cat-5 (5)/K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (4/1)17
7cat-6 (5)/K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (4/1)46
8cat-7 (5)/K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (4/1)30
9cat-8 (5)/K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (4/1)55
10cat-9 (5)/K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (4/1)87
11cat-9 (5)PCy3(10)K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (4/1)96
12cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (4/1)93 d
13cat-9 (1)PCy3(2)K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (4/1)32 d
14cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF83
15cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K3PO4 (5)THF12
16cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (2/1)78 d
17cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (6/1)93 d
18cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K3PO4·3H2O (5)THF/H2O (8/1)90 d
19cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K3PO4·3H2O (5)Diox/H2O (4/1)87
20cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K3PO4·3H2O (5)DME/H2O (4/1)15
21cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K3PO4·3H2O (5)Tol/H2O (4/1)78
22cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K3PO4·3H2O (5)MeCN/H2O(4/1)90
23cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K3PO4·3H2O (5)DMF/H2O (4/1)66
24cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K3PO4·3H2O (5)DMA/H2O (4/1)77
25cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K3PO4·3H2O (5)DMSO/H2O(4/1)75
26cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K2CO3 (5)THF/H2O (4/1)20
27cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)NaOH (5)THF/H2O (4/1)18
28cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)AcOK (5)THF/H2O (4/1)47
29cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)KOH (5)THF/H2O (4/1)30
30cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)NaF/KF (5)THF/H2O (4/1)trace
31cat-9 (3)PCy3(6)K3PO4·3H2O (4)THF/H2O (4/1)82
a Reaction conditions: 1a (1.0 mmol), 2a (1.3 mmol), TsF (1.1 mmol), solvent (5.0 mL), N2, at reflux or 70 °C, 6 h. b Isolated yields. c PR3 = PPh3, PCy3 and dppf (1,1′- bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene). d 10–12 h.
Table
Table 2. Nickel/phosphine catalyzed Suzuki coupling of phenols with arylboronic acids enabled by SuFEx of TsF a.
Table 2. Nickel/phosphine catalyzed Suzuki coupling of phenols with arylboronic acids enabled by SuFEx of TsF a.
Nickel/Phosphine Catalyzed Suzuki Coupling of Phenols with Arylboronic Acids Enabled by SuFEx of TsF
Molecules 28 00636 i002
a Reaction conditions: 1a-v (1.0 mmol), 2a-n (1.3 mmol), TsF (1.1 mmol), trans-NiCl(o-Tol)(PCy3)2 (3.0 mol%), PCy3 (6.0 mol%), K3PO4·3H2O (5.0 mmol), THF (4.0 mL), H2O (1.0 mL), N2, 70 °C. b 4-Biphenylcarboxylic acid isolated in 42%. c 4-Tosyloxybiphenyl (35%) and 4-phenylbiphenyl (12%) isolated. d trans-NiCl(o-Tol)(PCy3)2 (10.0 mol%), PCy3 (20.0 mol%) used. e 2.5 equiv. TsF and 2a used with respect to 1s and 1t.
Disclaimer/Publisher’s Note: The statements, opinions and data contained in all publications are solely those of the individual author(s) and contributor(s) and not of MDPI and/or the editor(s). MDPI and/or the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to people or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content.

Share and Cite

MDPI and ACS Style

Wang, H.; Zhang, S.; Xü, M.; Zou, G. Nickel-Catalyzed Suzuki Coupling of Phenols Enabled by SuFEx of Tosyl Fluoride. Molecules 2023, 28, 636. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28020636

AMA Style

Wang H, Zhang S, Xü M, Zou G. Nickel-Catalyzed Suzuki Coupling of Phenols Enabled by SuFEx of Tosyl Fluoride. Molecules. 2023; 28(2):636. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28020636

Chicago/Turabian Style

Wang, Huimin, Shuqin Zhang, Minling Xü, and Gang Zou. 2023. "Nickel-Catalyzed Suzuki Coupling of Phenols Enabled by SuFEx of Tosyl Fluoride" Molecules 28, no. 2: 636. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28020636

Article Metrics

Back to TopTop