文摘
The mechanism of the fluoride-free, palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of potassium(E)-heptenyldimethylsilanolate, K+(E)-1-, with 2-iodothiophene has been investigated through kineticanalysis. The order of each component was determined by plotting the initial rates of the reaction againstconcentration. These data provided a mechanistic picture which involves a fast and irreversible oxidativeinsertion of palladium into the aryl iodide and a subsequent intramolecular transmetalation step from acomplex containing a silicon-oxygen-palladium linkage. First-order behavior at low concentrations ofsilanolate with excess palladium(0) complex supports the formation of this complex as the turnover-limitingstep. The change to zeroth-order dependence on silanolate at high concentrations is consistent with theintramolecular transmetalation becoming the turnover-limiting step.