The reduction of organic halides with tributyltin hydride in the presence of a catalytic amount of triethylborane has been studied. (1) Alkyl iodides and alkyl bromides reacted easily with tin hydride at −78°C to give the corresponding hydrocarbons, while alkyl chlorides were sluggish to react and recovered unchanged. (2) The reduction of alkenyl halides such as 1-deuterio-1-iodo-1-dodecene and 1-iodo-1-triethylsilyl-1-dodecene proceeded nonstereospecifically. (3) The reduction of aryl halides with n-Bu3SnH–Et3B system was not so effective as the reduction of alkyl halides and alkenyl halides. Whereas aryl iodides were reduced at room temperature with n-Bu3SnH, aryl bromides hardly reacted with n-Bu3SnH even at 80 °C.
[reaction: see text]. In contrast to the Pd(0)-catalyzed mechanism by Uemura, Mizoroki-Heck type reaction of boronic acids is found to proceed under a Pd(II)-mediated pathway using a catalytic amount of Pd(OAc)2 in the presence of Cu(OAc)2 as an oxidant. Treatment of a variety of alkenes with boronic acids, boronates, and sodium tetraphenylborate furnishes beta-arylated and alkenylated products in good to excellent yields. The reactions with norbornene, norbornadiene, and diphenylacetylene are also performed to give 1:2 or 2:1 coupling products.
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