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A new type of oxidative addition of an iodoarene to a Pd(II) complex

Inmaculada Vicente-Hernández a, María-Teresa Chicote a, José Vicente *a and Delia Bautista b
aGrupo de Química Organometálica, Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Murcia, Apartado 4021, Murcia, 30071, Spain. E-mail: jvs1@um.es; mch@um.es
bSAI, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. E-mail: dbc@um.es

Received 14th September 2015 , Accepted 2nd November 2015

First published on 2nd November 2015


Abstract

Oxidative addition of N-(2-iodophenyl)formamide to Pd(dba)2 (dba = dibenzylideneacetone) in the presence of 4,4′-ditertbutyl-2,2′-bipyridine (tBubpy) produces [Pd(C6H4NHCHO-2)I(tBubpy)] (1) which inserts 2-iodophenyl isocyanide to give [Pd{C([double bond, length as m-dash]NC6H4I-2)C6H4NHCHO-2}I(tBubpy)] (2). Dehydroiodination of 2 with Tl(acac) (acacH = acetylacetone) gives the stable Pd(IV) complex OC-6-35-[Pd{C,N,N–C([double bond, length as m-dash]NC6H4-2)C6H4NCHO-2}I(tBubpy)] (4) likely resulting from the spontaneous oxidative addition of the I–Ar moiety present in the unstable intermediate Pd(II) complex [Pd{C,N–C([double bond, length as m-dash]NC6H4I-2)C6H4NCHO-2}(tBubpy)] (3). The crystal structure of 4 shows various C–H⋯O hydrogen bonds resulting in chains of dimers stacked along the a axis.


The important role of Pd-catalyzed C–C cross coupling reactions in organic synthesis is very well known.1 These reactions involve Pd(0)2,3 or Pd(II)4 precatalysts and, in most cases, the catalyst is Pd metal or a Pd(0) complex formed from the precatalyst. However, in some cases in which the precatalyst is a Pd(II) complex, experimental3,5,6 and theoretical7 studies suggested a Pd(II)/Pd(IV) catalytic cycle as an alternative to the usual Pd(0)/Pd(II) one. The main objections to this proposal, when an aryl halide is involved (Heck, Suzuki–Miyaura, Sonogashira, Stille, etc. coupling reactions), were that (1) the necessary oxidative addition of the haloarene to Pd(II) had no experimental support, and (2) the Pd(IV) intermediate formed during catalysis had not been detected. However, we have recently given experimental evidence against these two objections by isolating the Pd(IV) oxidative addition product (A, Scheme 1) of an aryl iodide to a Pd(II) complex,8,9 and detecting the Pd(IV) complex in a Heck-type catalytic reaction.10
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Scheme 1 Synthesis of complex A.

The easy formation of complexes A and B (Scheme 1) was explained as a consequence of the coordination of the 2-iodobenzoato ligand that would bring the iodine and Pd atoms close to each other.9 We have used the same coordination-assisted oxidative addition of the 2-iodobenzoato ligand with other Pd(II) complexes.8

In this work we describe a new way of assistance of the oxidative addition of an aryl halide to a Pd(II) complex. It involves the insertion of an isocyanide into the Pd–C bond of an aryl Pd(II) complex (1 in Scheme 2), a very well known process11 that has been recently reviewed.12 The rising interest of Pd(IV) chemistry in synthesis and catalysis is very well established.13


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Scheme 2 Synthesis of complex 4.

Complex 1 (Scheme 2) was obtained by the oxidative addition of N-(2-iodophenyl)formamide14 to Pd2(dba)3·dba (“Pd(dba)2”, dba = dibenzylideneacetone) in the presence of tBubpy (1[thin space (1/6-em)]:[thin space (1/6-em)]1[thin space (1/6-em)]:[thin space (1/6-em)]1, toluene, room temperature, 5 h, 80%). Insertion of 2-iodophenyl isocyanide into the Pd–C bond of 1 produced the iminobenzoyl complex 2 (1[thin space (1/6-em)]:[thin space (1/6-em)]1, CH2Cl2, room temperature, 20 min, 89%) which decomposed upon heating in solution or even upon standing at room temperature to give the almost quantitative amount of [PdI2(tBubpy)] along with an unresolved mixture of products. This result suggested that an unstable diiodopalladium(IV) complex, probably [Pd{C,N,N–C([double bond, length as m-dash]NC6H4-2)C6H4NHCHO-2}I2(tBubpy)], formed from the oxidative addition to Pd(II) of the I-iminobenzoyl fragment. The great instability of the only known diiodo Pd(IV) organometallic complex has been previously reported.15 In order to avoid this decomposition process we decided to dehydroiodinate complex 2 with Tl(acac) (acacH = acetylacetone) but, instead of the expected complex 3, spontaneous formation of the Pd(IV) complex 4 occurred, containing a stabilizing6,16 pincer ligand. The isolated reaction mixture (1[thin space (1/6-em)]:[thin space (1/6-em)]1, acetone, 1 h, room temperature) was shown by 1H NMR to contain mainly 4, while intermediate 3, which we assume to be a minor component of the mixture, could not be isolated even from a 15 min reaction. Pure complex 4 was isolated in 75% yield at 50 °C for 5 h but also after a couple of days standing at room temperature.

The oxidative addition reactions of R–X (R = alkyl) compounds to Pd(II) complexes lead to cis-, trans- or mixtures of both Pd(IV) isomers depending on the nature of R.17 In the case of the oxidative addition of 2-iodobenzoate (Scheme 1), the 1H NMR spectrum of the reaction mixture showed an equilibrium between both isomers A and B, the later characterized by X-ray crystallography. The presence of a weakly coordinating group (MeO) may be responsible for the easy conversion of both isomers through a pentacoordinate intermediate,9 which in the present case seems not to be available (even at 50 °C for 5 h) since both the tBubpy and the CN ligands form robust palladacycles. Therefore, the results of the three known reported cases suggest that the intramolecular oxidative addition of aryl iodides to Pd(II) leads to the cis isomer that can isomerize to the trans isomer if a weakly coordinating group facilitates the process.

According to NMR data, complexes 1 and 2 form as mixtures of isomers as is also the case of the starting compound N-(2-iodophenyl)formamide.14,18

The crystal structure of 4·CH2Cl2 (Fig. 1) has been determined by X-ray diffraction methods. It shows the Pd atom in a rather distorted octahedral environment. The greater trans influence of carbon with respect to nitrogen donor ligands is observed in the Pd–NtBubpy bond distances (2.1763(18) vs. 2.0767(19) Å). The Pd–I bond distance (2.5992(3) Å) is similar to that in the only other monoiodo Pd(IV) complex structurally characterized having iodo trans to nitrogen (2.5902(3) Å).19 A chain of dimers forms along the a axis through various C–H⋯O hydrogen bonds.


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Fig. 1 Ortep drawing (50% probability ellipsoids) of complex 4·CH2Cl2.

Very few crystal structures of Pd(IV)-iodo complexes have been reported, namely those of one triiodo20 and three monoiodo9,19,21 derivatives.

In conclusion, we show an alternative way to oxidatively add an iodoarene to a Pd(II) complex to give a very stable aryl Pd(IV) complex through insertion of 2-iodophenyl isocyanide into the C–Pd bond of an aryl Pd(II) complex. This work opens a new research line that, provided the appropriate aryl Pd(II) complexes and 2-iodoarylisocyanides (or related reagents) were used, could lead to interesting organic products through unstable Pd(IV) intermediates.

We thank the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain), FEDER (Project CTQ2011-24016), and Fundación Séneca (CARM, Murcia, Spain; 04539/GERM/06) for financial support.

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Footnote

Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Experimental and spectroscopic data. CCDC 1414698. For ESI and crystallographic data in CIF or other electronic format see DOI: 10.1039/c5cc07698f

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