Acetylene derivs., insertion

Some other ring expansions involving the intramolecular amino Claisen rearrangement of vinylarylaziridine [ 123], the Diels-Alder reaction of indoles with acetylene derivative [124-127] and the dibromocarbene insertion into quinoline enol ethers [ 128] have been used to prepare 1-benzazepines. On the other hand, treatment of 3-chloro-3-phenyl-l,2,3,4,5,6-hexahydro-l-benz-azocin-2-ones with piperidine causes a ring contraction to give 2-phenyl-2-(l-piperidinylcarbonyl)-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-l//-l-bcnzazepines in an excellent yield [23]. 

Transition metal catalyzed insertion reactions offer a convenient route for the preparation of five membered heterocyclic rings. Besides intramolecular Heck-couplings and CO insertion, examples of the intramolecular insertion of an acetylene derivative constitute the majority of this chapter. Although some of these processes involve the formation of a carbon-heteroatom bond, they are discussed here. 

The insertion of acetylene derivatives might also be utilised in the preparation of six membered rings. A characteristic distinction between such processes and olefin insertion is the fact, that the intermediate formed by the insertion of an acetylene into the palladium-carbon bond is unable to undergo /2-hydride elimination, therefore the concluding step of these processes is usually reductive elimination. 

The analogous palladium catalyzed reaction of internal acetylenes, 2-iodophenol and carbon monoxide leads to the selective formation of coumarins. The heterocyclic analogues of o-iodophenol are also effective. The o-iodopyridone shown in 4.16. for example gave rise to the formation of azacoumarin in 70% yield.18 In these processes the insertion of the acetylene derivative occurs in advance of the insertion of CO. Interestingly, the change of the acetylene to an alkene reverses the insertion order and leads to flavone formation.19... 

Usually zinc carbenoids do not insert into olefinic C—H bonds, although the Simmons-Smith reagent was reported to attack ether to give products resulting from insertion of a methylene group into the a-C—H bond 42, 185). As has been mentioned above, the formation of methyl-acetylene derivatives from terminal acetylene derivatives may proceed via insertion of methylene into the C—H bond 528). 

In this class of reactions the side methylene bridge is introduced to the molecule by bonding it to the two bridgehead carbons. Naturally, a reaction in which a carbenoid is inserted into a cyclopropene system is most commonly employed. In fact, in many cases, carbene is inserted first into an acetylenic derivative and then again into its product yielding finally the bicyclobutane framework (equations 34, 35). This method was successfully employed in the synthesis of highly strained derivatives of bicyclobutane (equations 36, 37). 

When manganacycle 39 is allowed to remain in ether solution in the dark at atmospheric pressure, a single diastereomer of butenolide 49(configuration unknown) is produced in excellent yield(20j. Presumably, the butenolide results from formation of manganacycle 48 by loss of phenyl sulfinic acid, protonation of 48, migratory insertion of an additional molecule of CO producing ketene 51, enolization, and ring formation. We have previously demonstrated that this mechanism is operative in reactions of acetylene derivatives(75). 

The reactivity of OsHCl(CO)(P Pr3)2 toward alkynes depends on the type of alkyne used. Whereas phenylacetylene, propyne, and acetylene react by insertion to give the five-coordinate alkenyl derivatives Os ( >CI I=CHR Cl(CO)(PIPr3)2 (R = Ph, Me, H),31,33 the reaction with methylpropiolate affords a mixture of Os C(=CH2)C(OMe)0 Cl(CO)(P,Pr3)2 and 0s ( )-CH=CHC02Me Cl(C0) (P Pr3)234 (Scheme 3), and tert-butyl acetylene and diphenylacetylene are inert. 

In a manner similar to OsH(OH)(CO)(P Pr3)2, the hydride-metallothiol complex OsH(SH)(CO)(P Pr3)2 adds Lewis bases that are not bulky such as CO and P(OMe)3 to give the corresponding six-coordinate hydride-metallothiol derivatives OsH(SH)(CO)L(P Pr3)2 (L = CO, P(OMe)3). OsH(OH)(CO)(PiPr3)2 and OsH(SH)(CO)(P Pr3 also show a similar behavior toward dimethyl acetylenedi-carboxylate. Treatment of OsH(SH)(CO)(P Pr3)2 with this alkyne affords 6sH SC(C02Me)CHC(OMe)6 (CO)P Pr3)2, which is the result of the tram addition of the S—H bond to the carbon-carbon triple bond of the alkyne. Phenyl-acetylene, in contrast to dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, reacts with OsH(SH) (CO)(P Pr3)2 by insertion of the carbon-carbon triple bond into the Os—H bond to give the unsaturated alkenyl-metallothiol derivative Os ( )-CH=CHPh (SH) (CO)(P Pr3 )2, the inorganic counterpart of the organic a, (3-unsaturated mercaptans (Scheme 46).92... 

Insertion of the alkyne into the Pd-H bond is the first step in the proposed catalytic cycle (Scheme 8), followed by insertion of the alkene and /3-hydride elimination to yield either the 1,4-diene (Alder-ene) or 1,3-diene product. The results of a deuterium-labeling experiment performed by Trost et al.46 support this mechanism. 1H NMR studies revealed 13% deuterium incorporation in the place of Ha, presumably due to exchange of the acetylenic proton, and 32% deuterium incorporation in the place of Hb (Scheme 9). An alternative Pd(n)-Pd(iv) mechanism involving palladocycle 47 (Scheme 10) has been suggested for Alder-ene processes not involving a hydridopalladium species.47 While the palladium acetate and hydridopalladium acetate systems both lead to comparable products, support for the existence of a unique mechanism for each catalyst is derived from the observation that in some cases the efficacies of the catalysts differ dramatically.46... 

A unique bis-silylation system, in which a bis(silyl)palladium intermediate is generated via recombination of two Si-Si bonds, has been developed.8,97 A bis(disilanyl)dithiane reacts with alkynes in the presence of a palladium/ isocyanide catalyst, giving five-membered ring bis-silylation products in high yield with elimination of hexamethyl-disilane (Scheme 14). The recombination, that is, bond metathesis, is so efficient that no product derived from direct insertion of acetylene into the Si-Si bonds of the bis(silyl)dithiane is formed at all. 

This hydride then may add an acetylene molecule to form the vinyl derivative. A carbon monoxide insertion will produce the acrylyl nickel compound which can yield acrylate esters by either of two routes. Direct alcoholysis of the acyl nickel group may take place, as occurs with acylcobalt compounds (42) or, an acyl halide (or other acyl derivative, e.g., acyl alkanoate) may be eliminated. Alcoholysis of the acyl halide would then complete the catalytic cycle (35). 

Several cyclopentadienyl(alkyl)metal carbonyl derivatives have reacted with acetylenes. In some examples, insertion reactions may also be involved, although the mechanisms have not been investigated. Cyclopentadienyl(methyl)iron dicarbonyl with diphenylacetylene gave a 10% yield of cyclopen tadienyltetra-phenylcyclopentadienyliron 71). 

Cyclotetramerization to form cyclooctatetraene occurs only with nickel.46,63 68 The best catalysts are octahedral Ni(II) complexes, such as bis(cyclooctatetraene) dinickel.46 Internal alkynes do not form cyclooctatetraene derivatives but participate in cooligomerization with acetylene. Of the possible mechanistic pathways, results with [l-13C]-acetylene81 favor a stepwise insertion process or a concerted reaction, and exclude any symmetric intermediate (cyclobutadiene, benzene). The involvement of dinuclear species are in agreement with most observations.46,82-84... 

Cycloaddition of the carbene derived from 205 to bis(trimethylsilyl)acetylene yields the expected cyclopropene in low yield both photochemically (20%) and under catalysis by copper triflate at 80 °C (10-13%)119. The latter version of the reaction is accompanied by [3 + 2] cycloaddition of the diazo compound to the alkyne, and the photochemical route yields a by-product which obviously comes from carbenic C,H insertion at a SiMe3 group of the alkyne. 

The most stable linear HEEH molecule will be formed by dimerisation of HC, where we have a total of 10 electrons (four from each C and one from each H) to insert into the MOs. These will lead to a triple bond, i.e. we have one filled o bonding MO and two filled ji bonding MOs after disregarding the MOs derived from a,. This is consistent with the properties of acetylene HC=CH. Linear HFFH offers no advantages compared with HF all F-F bonding cancels out if we have 16 electrons, filling all eight MOs in Fig. 7.9. 

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