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vignette|300px|Exemple de cycle catalytique : le procédé Monsanto. En chimie, un cycle catalytique est un terme désignant un mécanisme réactionnel à plusieurs étapes impliquant un catalyseur. Le cycle catalytique est la principale façon de décrire le rôle des catalyseurs en biochimie, chimie organométallique, science des matériaux Souvent, de tels cycles montrent la conversion d'un précatalyseur en catalyseur. Comme les catalyseurs sont régénérés, les cycles catalytiques sont habituellement écrits comme une séquence de réactions chimiques en forme de boucle. Dans de telles boucles, l'étape initiale implique la liaison d'un ou plusieurs réactifs avec le catalyseur, et l'étape finale est la formation du produit et la régénération du catalyseur. vignette|center|350px|Cycle catalytique de la conversion de A et B en C. Un cycle catalytique n'est pas nécessairement un mécanisme réactionnel en entier. Par exemple, on peut avoir détecté un intermédiaire réactionnel, tout en ne sachant pas

Synthetic methodologies for C-C and C-N bond formation involving alkyl radicals

Guido Barzanò

C-C and C-N bonds are some of the most common structures in molecules ranging from drugs to catalysts and to food additives. Many coupling reactions were developed to form these types of bonds with excellent selectivity and good performance. Still, the synthesis of some of those species either depends on traditional methods or requires expensive and rare reagents and catalysts. The use of precious metals in chemistry, and particularly in the industry, can make molecular synthesis expensive and energy-intensive since the extraction of those materials is costly. Moreover, in homogeneous catalysis, the recovery of metal-based catalysts is almost impossible, making these processes unsustainable for the future. Thus, the discovery of chemical reactions that donât involve precious materials is indispensable. This thesis concentrates on the development of two chemical transformations, one performing an sp2-sp3 radical reductive coupling, one performing a photocatalyzed alkyl amination, involving inexpensive reagents and catalysts. The first chapter reviews the existing methodologies which use alkyl radicals to form carbon-carbon and carbon-nitrogen bonds. Alkyl radicals are formed from alkyl halides and pseudo-halides (Acids, esters, tosylates, etc.) via oxidation or reduction performed by metal or photoredox catalyst. The wide variety of available methodologies was illustrated, highlighting the advantages and weaknesses of each reaction. The second chapter of this dissertation is devoted to the development of a new iron-based catalytic method to form stereoselectively Z-alkene boron species from the corresponding boron-alkyne. This novel stereoselective method opens a new way to obtain these types of molecules with cheap reagents, in high yields, with excellent stereoselectivity (Z:E ratio >10:1), and with good tolerance of functional group. The reaction is radical based, avoiding the problem of beta-hydride elimination, which usually occurs in ionic reactions involving metal centers. In order to prove the versatility of this method, the vinyl boron compound formed from this reaction was used for further functionalizations. The formal total synthesis of a 5-HT2c receptor agonist was successfully performed, improving the overall yield of the process, and avoiding the use of expensive and polluting chemicals. The third chapter of this thesis is concentrated on the development of a tandem photoredox/metal base catalyzed functionalization of anilines and imines with alkyl carboxylic esters. In this reaction, no late transition metal is used, and the traditional metal-based photocatalyst is substituted with an inexpensive and more efficient organic dye. The alkylation of amines is a challenging topic in organic chemistry and classical nucleophilic substitution lacks selectivity and scope. Harvesting visible light with a photoredox catalyst opens the possibility to a radical pathway, making this coupling easy and with high tolerance for functional groups. In order to understand the catalytic cycle of the reaction, additional mechanistic studies were conducted, leading to some insight on how this reaction works.

EPFL2020

Rh-catalyzed C-H Bond Heteroarylation with Hypervalent Iodine Reagents and Pd-Catalyzed Tethered Functionalizations of Carbon-Carbon Multiple Bonds.

Ashis Kumar Das

Transition metal-catalyzed C-H activation is a powerful tool for the synthesis of organic building blocks, materials, and natural products. Over the last decade, directing-group-assisted metal-catalyzed C-H functionalization has attracted increasing interest as a means to target specific C-H bonds. Moreover, a large variety of electrophiles has been employed in this kind of processes. In this thesis, we describe a novel C-6 selective C-H heteroarylation of pyridine-2-ones using indoleBX reagents as coupling partners under Rh(I)-catalysis. The reaction worked efficiently also with other analogous heterocyclic substrates and with a quinoline-N-oxide. We were able to obtain 6-(indol-3-yl)pyridinone and 8-(indol-3-yl)quinolone after cleavage of the directing group or rearrangement of the N-oxide moiety. 1,2-Amino alcohols are important structural motifs in organic chemistry that can be observed in natural products, pharmaceutically and biologically active molecules. The palladium-catalyzed difunctionalization of C-C multiple bonds has been broadly investigated as an efficient strategy to access such substructures. This transformation has been reported using either Pd(0)/Pd(II) or Pd(II)/Pd(IV) catalytic cycles, in which the nucleophilic functionalization of a putative Pd(II)-alkyl intermediate is achieved prior to beta-hydride elimination. As a further topic of this thesis, we developed new methods for the synthesis of amino alcohols whereby the Pd-catalyzed difunctionalization of alkynes and alkenes was combined with the tethering approach previously established in our laboratories. We first investigated the Pd-catalyzed enantioselective hydroalkoxylation of propargylic amines. The latter were tethered in situ with a trifluoroacetaldehyde hemiacetal. Best results were obtained with commercially available DACH-Phenyl Trost ligand. Aryl iodides were required as an additive in catalytic amount for successful outcome. A large variety of chiral oxazolidines were obtained in good to excellent yields and ee, followed by a diastereoselective reduction to give protected enantioenriched amino alcohols. A possible mechanism for this transformation relies on a Pd(0)/Pd(II) catalytic cycle involving oxidative addition of aryl iodide with a subsequent oxypalladation/protodemetallation (or reductive elimination) reaction. This is necessary to generate the active complex, not as the start of a cross-coupling event. The use of a commercially available DACH-Ph Trost ligand to produce high enantioselectivity in an unprecedented DYKAT process was critical to success.The Pd-catalyzed amino acetoxylation of cinnamyl alcohols was next taken into consideration towards the synthesis of valuable amino diol derivatives. In this case, preformed substrates were used, where the alcohol moiety was tethered to N-nucleophilic groups. Conditions involving Pd(II)/Pd(IV) catalysis and employing PIDA as a strong oxidant were employed. The use of this hypervalent iodine reagent was key to the success of the transformation. Amino acetoxylated products were obtained in moderate to good yields and dr. The scope of this reaction remains mostly limited to cinnamyl derived substrates. The reaction conditions did not tolerate substituents on the alpha, beta, and gamma positions of the allylic chains. Alkyl chain containing unsaturated alcohols delivered Aza-Wacker-type products.

EPFL2022

Nickamine and Analogous Nickel Pincer Catalysts for Cross-Coupling of Alkyl Halides and Hydrosilylation of Alkenes

Xile Hu, Renyi Shi, Zhikun Zhang

CONSPECTUS: Ligand development plays an essential role in the advance of homogeneous catalysis. Tridentate, meridionally coordinating ligands, commonly termed pincer ligands, have been established as a privileged class of ligands in catalysis because they confer high stability while maintaining electronic tenability to the resulting metal complexes. Pincer ligands containing "soft" donors such as phosphines are typically used for late transition-metal ions, which are considered "soft" acids. Driven by our interest to develop base-metal catalysis and in view of the "hard" character of base-metal ions, our group explored a pincer ligand containing only "hard" nitrogen donors. A prototypical nickel complex of this ligand, "Nickamine", turned out to be an efficient catalyst in a wide range of organic reactions. Because of its propensity to mediate single-electron redox chemistry, Nickamine is particularly suited to catalyze cross-coupling of nonactivated alkyl halides through radical pathways. These coupling partners have been challenging substrates for traditional, palladium-based catalysts because of difficult oxidative addition and nonproductive beta-H elimination. The high activity of Nickamine for cross-coupling leads to high chemoselectivity and functional group tolerance, even when reactive Grignard reagents are employed as nucleophiles. The scope of the catalysis is broad and encompasses spa(3)-spa(3), sp(3)-sp(2), and sp(3)-sp cross-coupling. The defined nature of Nickamine facilitated the mechanistic study of cross-coupling reactions. Experiments involving radical-probe substrates, presumed intermediates and dormant species, kinetics, and density functional theory computations revealed a bimetallic oxidative addition pathway. In this pathway, two Ni centers each provide one electron to support the two-electron activation of an alkyl halide substrate. The success of Nickamine motivated our systematic structure-activity studies aiming at improved activity in certain reactions through ligand modification. Indeed, better catalysts have been developed for cross-coupling of secondary alkyl halides as well as direct alkynylation of alkyl halides. The improvement is attributed to a more accessible Ni center in the new catalysts than in Nickamine. Surprisingly, the improvement could be obtained simply by replacing a dimethyl amino group in Nickamine with a pyrrolidino group. During the study of the catalytic cycle of Nickamine in cross-coupling reactions, we synthesized the corresponding Ni-H species. Consequently, we explored the catalytic application of Nickamine in Ni-H mediated reactions, such as hydrosilylation. To our delight, Nickamine is a chemoselective catalyst for hydrosilylation of alkenes while tolerating a reactive C=O group. An analogous Ni pincer complex was found to catalyze unusual hydrosilylation reactions using alkoxy hydrosilanes as surrogates of gaseous silanes.

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019