One-Pot Synthesis of Carbazole via Tandem Suzuki-Miyaura and Amination Reaction

Yuki Kitamura; Seiji Yoshikawa; Takumi Furuta; Toshiyuki Kan

doi:10.1055/s-2008-1032066

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One-Pot Synthesis of Carbazole via Tandem Suzuki-Miyaura and Amination Reaction

Yuki Kitamura, Seiji Yoshikawa, Takumi Furuta, Toshiyuki Kan*
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan
Fax: +81(54)2645745; e-Mail: kant@u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp;

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One-pot synthesis of carbazole from two aromatic rings was accomplished by a tandem Suzuki-Miyaura and amination reaction. Our novel phosphine ligand for both reactions efficiently mediates a sequential intermolecular biaryl formation and ring-closing amination.

Key words

phenylnaphthyl phosphane - intramolecular amination - Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling - carbazole

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We have found that a Suzuki-Miyaura reaction of 12 and 13 mediated by ligand 1 provides biaryl product 14 even with the chloride, which is known as a low reactive halide (Scheme [2] ).

Scheme 2

Experimental Procedure for the Synthesis of Carbazole 5 (Table 1, Entry 6)
To a solution of 2-bromophenylboronic acid (2, 30 mg, 0.15 mmol) and 2-iodoaniline (3, 30 mg, 0.14 mmol) in toluene (0.5 mL) was added Pd₂(dba)₃ (13 mg, 0.01 mmol), ligand 1 (6.9 mg, 0.02 mmol), and Cs₂CO₃ (134 mg, 0.41 mmol) at r.t. under an argon atmosphere, then the mixture was stirred at 100 °C for 2 h. The mixture was cooled to r.t., and then NaOt-Bu (16 mg, 0.17 mmol) was added and stirred at 100 °C for 19 h. After stirring, H₂O was added, and extracted with EtOAc. The organic layer was washed with H₂O, brine, dried over MgSO₄ and evaporated. The residue was purified by column chromatography on silica gel (benzene-EtOAc, 99:1) to afford the 9H-carbazole (5, 16 mg, 71%) as a colorless solid; R _f = 0.82 (benzene-EtOAc, 99:1). ¹H NMR (500 MHz, CDCl₃): δ = 8.08 (d, J = 7.9 Hz, 2 H), 8.03 (br s, 1 H), 7.50-7.40 (m, 4 H), 7.30-7.20 (m, 2 H). ¹³C NMR (68 MHz, CDCl₃): δ = 139.5, 125.8, 123.4, 120.3, 119.4, 110.6. MS-FAB: m/z = 168 [M + H]⁺. HRMS-FAB: m/z calcd for C₁₂H₁₀N [M + H]⁺: 168.0814; found: 168.0809.

An isolation and structure determination of complex 4′ was not tested.

Addition of Cs₂CO₃ (1.2 equiv) instead of NaOt-Bu gave no improvement of chemical yields to give 5 and 4 in 26% and 31%, respectively. This result also supports that the complex 4′ plays a role in preventing the ring closure to 5.

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Analytical Data of 9b
R _f = 0.52 (hexane-benzene, 2:3). ¹H NMR (500 MHz, CDCl₃): δ = 8.34 (s, 1 H), 8.23 (br s, 1 H), 8.10 (d, J = 7.9 Hz, 1 H), 7.66 (d, J = 8.5 Hz, 1 H), 7.55-7.40 (m, 3 H), 7.35-7.25 (m, 1 H). ¹³C NMR (68 MHz, CDCl₃): δ = 140.9, 139.4, 127.3, 126.8, 123.2, 123.0, 122.9, 122.8, 122.72, 122.67, 122.6, 122.0, 121.6, 120.6, 120.3, 118.02, 117.96, 117.9, 117.8, 110.9, 110.6. MS-FAB: m/z = 236 [M + H]⁺. HRMS-FAB: m/z calcd for C₁₃H₉NF₃ [M + H]⁺ 236.0687; found: 236.0678.
Analytical Data of 9g
R _f = 0.20 (hexane-CH₂Cl₂, 1:1). ¹H NMR (500 MHz, CDCl₃): δ = 7.94 (d, J = 7.9 Hz, 1 H), 7.87 (br s, 1 H), 7.51 (s, 1 H), 7.40-7.25 (m, 2 H), 7.24-7.15 (m, 1 H), 6.87 (s, 1 H), 4.00 (s, 3 H), 3.93 (s, 3 H). ¹³C NMR (68 MHz, CDCl₃): δ = 149.4, 144.4, 139.4, 134.2, 124.2, 123.6, 119.20, 119.18, 115.3, 110.5, 102.7, 94.2, 56.6, 56.1. MS-FAB: m/z = 227 [M + H]⁺. HRMS-FAB: m/z calcd for C₁₄H₁₄NO₂ [M + H]⁺ 228.1025; found: 228.1022.

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Experimental Procedure (Table 4, entry 2)
To a solution of 2-aminophenylboronic acid (10, 15 mg, 0.11 mmol) and 1,2-diiodobenzene (11, 33 mg, 0.10 mmol) in 1,4-dioxane (0.33 mL) was added Pd(OAc)₂ (2.2 mg, 0.01 mmol), ligand 1 (5.0 mg, 0.01 mmol), and Cs₂CO₃ (98 mg, 0.30 mmol) at r.t. under an argon atmosphere, then the mixture was stirred at 80 °C for 24 h. The mixture was cool to r.t., and then NaOt-Bu (12 mg, 0.12 mmol) was added and stirred at 80 °C for 24 h. After stirring, H₂O was added, and extracted with EtOAc. The organic layer was washed with H₂O, brine, dried over MgSO₄, and evaporated. The residue was purified by column chromatography on silica gel (benzene-EtOAc, 99:1) to afford the 9H-carbazole (5, 13 mg, 76%) as a colorless solid.

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