Sequential Ag-catalyzed carboxylative coupling/Ru-catalyzed cross-metathesis reactions for the synthesis of functionalized 2-alkynoates

Autor: Ling-Long Shi, Xiaobing Lü, Xiang Ren, Lin-Lin Zhang, Wen-Zhen Zhang
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Chinese Journal of Catalysis. 34:1179-1186
ISSN: 1872-2067
DOI: 10.1016/s1872-2067(12)60527-0
Popis: Sequential reactions can provide efficient access to a variety of important organic compounds that would be otherwise difficult to obtain using conventional methods and readily available starting materials. Based on the importance of 2-alkynoates in organic synthesis, the current research aimed to develop a method for the convenient synthesis of functionalized 2-alkynoates from terminal alkynes, CO2, terminal alkene-derived bromides, and methyl acrylate using a combination of the carboxylative coupling and cross-metathesis reactions. The initial ligand-free silver-catalyzed carboxylative coupling reactions of a variety of different aryl-substituted terminal alkynes and CO2 with 5-bromopentene and 6-bromohexene provided a series of 4-pentenyl 2-alkynoates and 5-hexenyl 2-alkynoates, respectively, in good yield. These resulting 2-alkynoates were further transformed into methyl (E)-6-acetylenecarboxy-2-hexenoates and (E)-7-acetylenecarboxy-2-heptenoates in moderate to good yields by their cross-metathesis reactions with methyl acrylate in the presence of the Grubbs-Hoveyda catalyst. All of the new products characterized spectroscopically.
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