Mild and phosphine-free Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction catalyzed by Pd/C

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Yoshiaki Kitamura, yakuhin@gifu-pu.ac.jp, Satoko Sako, yakuhin@gifu-pu.ac.jp, Takahiro Udzu, yakuhin@gifu-pu.ac.jp, Ai Sakurai, yakuhin@gifu-pu.ac.jp, Asami Tanaka, yakuhin@gifu-pu.ac.jp, Yusuke Kobayashi, yakuhin@gifu-pu.ac.jp, Utpal Bora, yakuhin@gifu-pu.ac.jp, Takanori Kurita, yakuhin@gifu-pu.ac.jp, Atsushi Kozaki, yakuhin@gifu-pu.ac.jp, Tomohiro Maegawa, yakuhin@gifu-pu.ac.jp, and Hironao Sajiki, sajiki@gifu-pu.ac.jp. Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, 6-1, Mitahora-higashi 5-chome, Gifu, 502-8585, Japan

Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction is one of the most versatile and utilized reactions for the selective construction of C-C bonds, in particular for the formation of biaryl derivatives. There have been a number of protocols to achieve an efficient Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction, although the utilization of expensive bases, solvents, scarce or difficult handling phoshine ligands made the reaction not practical. We developed a mild and efficient protocol for the phosphine-free Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction catalyzed by Pd/C at room temperature in an aqueous and/or alcoholic solvent (Scheme 1). This procedure features inexpensive reagents, solvents with low toxicity and extremely mild reaction conditions. Furthermore, Pd/C is reusable without significant alteration of the yields of the cross-coupled product. The present method is applicable to the synthesis of heterocyclic biaryl derivatives, and alkenyl boronic acids and can also be used boronic acid esters as a coupling partner (Scheme 2).