RADICAL GERMYLZINCATION OF a-HETEROATOM-SUBSTITUTED ALKYNES
Karen DE LA VEGA-HERNANDEZ,a Elise ROMAIN,a Anais COFFINET,a Kajetan BIJOUARD,a Geoffrey GONTARD,a Fabrice CHEMLA,a Franck FERREIRA,a
Olivier JACKOWSKIa and Alejandro PEREZ-LUNAa
a Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
Vinylgermanes are interesting synthetic building blocks that provide specific features such as low toxicity, facilehalodegermylation and excellent stability toward protonolysis. With a reactivity pattern similar to that of vinylsilanes andvinylstannanes, vinylgermanes offer a useful alternative to the more popular group 14 homologues when they meet flaws.[2]
However, there is no direct synthetic method for the preparation of β,β’-polysubstituted vinylgermanes.
Alkyne germylmetalation,[3] i. e., the 1,2-addition of germanium‒metal bonds across the carbon-carbon triple bond of alkynes, isa conceptually appealing approach for the synthesis of β-metalated vinylgermanes that could be used for the synthesis of tri- andtetrasubstituted vinylgermanes after in situ functionalization of the C(sp2)‒Met bond.
We disclosed here the first germylzincation reaction of C‒C triple bonds using a combination of a hydrogermane anddiethylzinc in a radical chain process. This reaction selectively installs a C(sp2)‒Ge bond and a C(sp2)‒Zn bond, that can be used aslinchpin for subsequent functionalization in a one pot procedure, offering modular access to tailored vinylgermanes that are not
achievable by other methods.
GERMYLZINCATION OF a-HETEROATOM-SUBSTITUTED ALKYNES[1]
REACTION SCOPE C(sp2)‒Zn BOND FUNCTIONALIZATION
Isolated after column chromatography on silica gel!
C(sp2)‒Ge BOND FUNCTIONALIZATION
MECHANISMt1
(min)
TEMPO
(mol%)2/1
0 110 0:100
0 10 0:100
5 10 26:74
REFERENCES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Sorbonne Université / CNRS / ED 406 are acknowledged for financial support.
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