Palladium-catalyzed C-H homocoupling of thiophene derivatives takes place in the presence of silver(I) fluoride or acetate. A variety of bithiophenes are obtained in good to excellent yields. In particular, the reaction of 2-bromothiophene proceeds at room temperature to afford 5,5'-dibromo-2,2'-bithiophene, where the bromine atom is completely intact in the palladium-catalyzed reaction. XRD analysis reveals that silver fluoride is reduced to silver(0) during the reaction.
Synthesis of oligothiophenes of well-defined structures that possess 2-8 thiophene units is performed with a new synthetic strategy involving C-H homocoupling of bromothiophenes and cross-coupling with organostannanes. Tolerance of the carbon-bromine bond to the palladium-catalyzed C-H homocoupling results in oligothiophenes bearing C-Br bonds at the terminal thiophene rings, which allow further transformation by the catalysis of a transition-metal complex.
A mild and regioselective C-H substitution reaction of thiazole by the catalysis of the palladium/copper system is found to proceed in the presence of tetrabutylammonium fluoride under mild conditions. Applying the new reaction, we synthesized various 2,5-diarylthiazoles that exhibit light-emitting and liquid crystalline characteristics in good yields. The color of light emission is tunable by the introduction of the substituent. Differently substituted 2,5-diarylthiazoles are found to exhibit a stable liquid crystal phase in a wide temperature range.
[reaction: see text] Bromothiophene derivatives react with aryl iodides catalyzed by a palladium complex in the presence of a silver(I) nitrate/potassium fluoride system to induce coupling at the C-H bond, while the carbon-bromine bond is intact. The produced coupling product bearing the C-Br bond allows further palladium-catalyzed C-C bond-forming reactions in reasonable yields.
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