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Ru3(CO)12-Catalyzed Reaction of 1,6-Diynes, Carbon Monoxide, and Water via the Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide
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  • Cathleen M. Crudden*
    Cathleen M. Crudden
    Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Chernoff Hall, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
    Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
    *Email: [email protected]
  • Yuuki Maekawa
    Yuuki Maekawa
    Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Chernoff Hall, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
    Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
  • Joshua J. Clarke
    Joshua J. Clarke
    Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Chernoff Hall, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
  • Tomohide Ida
    Tomohide Ida
    Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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  • Yoshiya Fukumoto
    Yoshiya Fukumoto
    Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
  • Naoto Chatani*
    Naoto Chatani
    Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
    *Email: [email protected]
  • Shinji Murai*
    Shinji Murai
    Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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We report the ruthenium-catalyzed cyclization of 1,6-diynes with two molecules of carbon monoxide and water to give a variety of catechols. This reaction likely proceeds through the intermediacy of the water–gas shift reaction to generate an yne–diol-type intermediate followed by a [4 + 2] cycloaddition with 1,6-diynes. The reaction requires no external reductants or hydride sources and provides a novel and valuable method for the synthesis of a variety of catechols.

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The water–gas shift (WGS) reaction is a crucial industrial process for the production of high purity hydrogen gas from carbon monoxide (CO) and water. Metal dihydrides (I) are key intermediates (Scheme 1A). (1) The WGS reaction has been also applied in hydrogenation reactions as well as catalytic reactions for the regeneration of active catalytic species; (2) however, its use in organic synthesis remains underdeveloped.

Scheme 1

Scheme 1. Water–Gas Shift Reaction for the Synthesis of Catechols from 1,6-Diynes

Our group previously reported that 1,6-diynes react with carbon monoxide and hydrosilane in the presence of simple Ru catalysts to provide catechol derivatives (Scheme 1B). (3) This reaction is proposed to proceed via a unique 1,3-shift of the silyl group in complex II to the oxygen atom of a coordinated CO. (4) Reaction of the resulting silyloxycarbyne complex III with a second molecule of CO gives dioxyacetylene IV. (5) This species can be trapped by cycloaddition with diynes 1, (6) yielding monosilylated catechols 2-Si (Scheme 1B). We speculated that this reaction might be carried out under WGS conditions if metal dihydride I could be considered a surrogate for II.

The use of metal catalysts to affect the cycloaddition of alkynes and diynes with a variety of partners, including other alkynes, alkenes, carbon dioxide, and nitriles, has become a topic of intense interest. (7) However, the synthesis of catechols through this type of cycloaddition has not been reported, even though early transition metals have been shown to affect the reductive coupling of CO to yield disiloxyethylenes under stoichiometric conditions. (8) Other examples where two molecules of CO are incorporated result in the preparation of 1,4-benzoquinones or 1,4-hydroquinones and thus do not proceed through the intermediacy of dihydroxyethyne. (9) Interestingly, despite their well-documented use in metathesis reactions and stoichiometric organometallic chemistry, (10a,b) metal carbyne species are scarcely invoked in catalytic transformations. (10c,d)

Herein, we report a novel, scalable synthesis of catechols through the intermediacy of a WGS reaction, where water is employed as the source of hydrogen, via metal carbynes as likely intermediates (Scheme 1C).

To optimize the reaction, we began with substrate 1a, which is predisposed toward cyclization because of the Thorpe–Ingold effect introduced by the geminal ester substituents. Reaction between 1a and carbon monoxide was carried out in a stainless steel autoclave employing 50 atm of CO and a polar solvent to which several equivalents of water was added. Ru3(CO)12 was employed as the catalyst at 2 mol % loading and the reaction carried out at 140 °C for 20 h. Under these conditions, the desired product (2a) was isolated after trituration in 81% yield (Table 1, entry 1).

Table 1. Optimization of Reaction Conditions for Cycloaddition of 1,6-Diyne 1a
entrycatalystH2O (equiv)solventyield (%)
1Ru3(CO)1241,4-dioxane81
2Ru3(CO)1251,4-dioxane70
3Ru3(CO)1221,4-dioxane51
4aRu3(CO)1241,4-dioxane61
5bRu3(CO)1241,4-dioxane24
6Fe3(CO)1241,4-dioxane0
7Os3(CO)1241,4-dioxane0
8Ru3(CO)124CH3CN79
9Ru3(CO)124THF81
10Ru3(CO)124CH2Cl246
11Ru3(CO)124toluene38
12Ru3(CO)124CH3OH51
a

CO pressure: 30 bar.

b

Reaction temperature:120 °C.

Using larger or smaller amounts of water gave decreased yields of product 2a (70% yield for 15 mmol of H2O and 51% yield for 6 mmol of H2O, entries 2 and 3). Decreasing the CO pressure also led to lower product yields (30 atm of CO gave 61% yield) as did lower temperatures (24% yield at 120 °C) (entries 4 and 5). Using Fe3(CO)12 or Os3(CO)12 as the catalyst in place of Ru3(CO)12 gave no reaction (entries 6 and 7). The reaction was tolerant to other solvents such as CH3CN (79%) and THF (81%); however, lower yields were obtained in CH2Cl2 (46%), toluene (38%), and CH3OH (51%) (entries 8–12).

These optimized conditions (Table 1, entry 1) were then applied to a variety of diyne substrates (Table 2). Gratifyingly, the cycloaddition reaction did not require geminal substitution on the diyne, with the simple 1,6-heptadiyne (1b) reacting to give catechol 2b in 59% yield. Oxygen or nitrogen substitution in the tether as in 1c and 1d were well tolerated as was the ketone in 1e, yielding catechols 2c2e. However, 1,7-heptadiyne (1f), which would yield the tetrahydronaphthalene structure, gave a complex mixture of products as did the related ether 1g, illustrating the importance of the fused 5/6 ring.

Table 2. Reaction of Terminal Alkynes with CO and H2O in the Presence of Ru3(CO)12a
a

Yields reported for isolated products.

Internal alkynes could also be employed as shown in Table 3. Diynes bearing a single substituent at the acetylenic terminus (methyl, 1h, or phenyl, 1j) gave adducts 2h and 2j in good yields, although terminal ethyl ester-substituted diyne 1i reacted with much lower efficiency. Disubstituted diynes 1k and 1l reacted smoothly to afford the corresponding hexasubstituted catechols 2k and 2l; however, diphenyl derivative 1m gave none of the desired product.

Table 3. Reaction of Internal Alkynes with CO and H2O in the Presence of Ru3(CO)12a
a

Yields reported for isolated products. 1H NMR yields are shown in parentheses (1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene was used as an internal standard).

b

With 6 mol % of Ru3(CO)12.

Although identifiable byproducts were rarely observed, a side product from the reaction of diphenyl diyne 1m was instructive. Instead of the desired catechol, cyclopentadieneone–Ru complex 3m was isolated. This species results from incorporation of a single molecule of carbon monoxide in a well-precedented [2 + 2 + 1] cycloaddition, with Ru(CO)3 binding to the cyclopentadieneone unit. (11) This compound was isolated in 89% yield relative to the added ruthenium catalyst (Scheme 2), and its structure was confirmed spectroscopically and by X-ray crystallography (Figure 1). The observation of compound 3m suggests that the [2 + 2 + 1] cycloaddition reaction is less sensitive to steric constraints than the desired [2 + 2 + 2] and that, once formed, these adducts can serve as catalyst sinks halting further transformations. Previous studies of Ru-catalyzed cycloadditions of diynes have documented the observation of related compounds, especially with sterically hindered diynes. (12)

Scheme 2

Scheme 2. Reaction of Diphenyl Diyne

Figure 1

Figure 1. Single-crystal X-ray structure of compound 3m (Ru, green; C, gray; O, red). Thermal elipsoids are shown at 50% probability. Selected bond lengths (Å) and angles [degs]: avg Ru–C(C≡O) = 1.936(2); avg C–O(C≡O) = 1.130(2); avg C(C≡O)–Ru–C(C≡O) = 94.86(7).

The catechol synthesis was also attempted employing alkyne 1n, which contains a terminal nitrile, since a successful cycloaddition would yield a pyridone product. Unfortunately, conditions were not found to affect pyridone synthesis, although product 2n was observed in small amounts along with other unidentified products (Scheme 3). Since catechol 2n was presumably produced by an unprecedented intermolecular cycloaddition, we also examined the reaction of phenyl acetylene; however, none of the desired product was observed from this alkyne.

Scheme 3

Scheme 3. Reaction of Alkyne Bearing a Terminal Nitrile

From a mechanistic point of view, the use of water in place of hydrosilane is somewhat remarkable since these two reagents are at different oxidation states. As noted in the introduction, the most reasonable suggestion for the observed product is that metal hydrides are generated in situ via the water gas shift reaction (Scheme 4). (1) Isomerization of the proposed intermediate metal carbonyl dihydride via a 1,3-metal hydride shift gives hydroxycarbyne metal complex 4. The suggested 1,3-hydride shift (Scheme 4) is proposed on the basis of precedent from related silyl systems (4) and considerable other literature describing the intermediacy of hydroxy carbynes such as 4 as an alternative to the less stable formyl tautomers. (13) Reaction of this species with another molecule of carbon monoxide would result in yne–-diol metal complex 6 via a metallacyclopropenone 5 in analogy with similar reactivity seen in other metal complexes. (5,14)

Scheme 4

Scheme 4. Proposed Reaction Pathway

The feasibility of yne–diol complex 6 is supported by reactions of related hydrosilanes performed in the absence of the 1,6-diyne (Scheme 5). (15) We previously reported that the Rh-catalyzed reaction between CO and a hydrosilane gives ene–diol 8, presumably derived from metal ene-silanol derivative 7. The stereochemistry of the ene-silanol 8 was shown to be cis, as expected for the mechanism shown.

Scheme 5

Scheme 5. Formation of Ene–Diol in the Absence of Diene

In conclusion, we have developed a ruthenium-catalyzed catechol synthesis from a variety of diynes utilizing the WGS reaction to generate 1,2-hydroxyethyne from two molecules of CO and water. Reactions proceeding via metal carbyne complexes remain under represented in catalytic transformations. In this context, it is noteworthy that formation of a metal oxy–acetylene complex from a metal carbyne, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen is a likely pathway for the transformations described. Efforts to expand the synthetic applicability of this unique reactive intermediate are in progress.

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    • Yuuki Maekawa - Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Chernoff Hall, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, CanadaInstitute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
    • Joshua J. Clarke - Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Chernoff Hall, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
    • Tomohide Ida - Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
    • Yoshiya Fukumoto - Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, JapanOrcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-1064-0354
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We acknowledge the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for funding of the work from this lab as described in this article. Y.M. is a recipient of a JSPS postdoctoral fellowship. JSPS and NU are acknowledged for funding of this research through the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) program. This work was partially supported by a Grant in Aid for Specially Promoted Research by MEXT (No. 17H06091).

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  • Abstract

    Scheme 1

    Scheme 1. Water–Gas Shift Reaction for the Synthesis of Catechols from 1,6-Diynes

    Scheme 2

    Scheme 2. Reaction of Diphenyl Diyne

    Figure 1

    Figure 1. Single-crystal X-ray structure of compound 3m (Ru, green; C, gray; O, red). Thermal elipsoids are shown at 50% probability. Selected bond lengths (Å) and angles [degs]: avg Ru–C(C≡O) = 1.936(2); avg C–O(C≡O) = 1.130(2); avg C(C≡O)–Ru–C(C≡O) = 94.86(7).

    Scheme 3

    Scheme 3. Reaction of Alkyne Bearing a Terminal Nitrile

    Scheme 4

    Scheme 4. Proposed Reaction Pathway

    Scheme 5

    Scheme 5. Formation of Ene–Diol in the Absence of Diene
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