Acetylene olefin insertion

Complex D4 is considered as the active species for both alkyne and olefin coordinations. Starting from the olefin coordinated complex (D5 ), the olefin insertion into the Pt-B bond is unfavorable because of a high activation barrier (22.9 kcal/mol). On the contrary, the acetylene insertion from the acetylene coordinated complex (D5) occurs easily with a small reaction barrier (9.0 kcal/mol). This significant difference in the reaction barriers has been used to explain the inertness of olefins for diborafion reactions. The smaller barrier from D5 to D6 coincides with the highly stable insertion product D6. In contrast, the olefin insertion product D6 is relatively unstable with respect to the olefin coordinated species D5 . 

Figure F shows some acetylene insertion reactions. These, too, are similar to the olefin insertion reactions. The manganese and cobalt hydrocarbonyls again add. Chloronickelcarbonyl hydride, which I believe is an intermediate in many of the nickel carbonyl-catalyzed reactions, adds to olefins. Diborane and the aluminum hydrides also add.

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. 

Organo-/-element-catalyzed hydroaminations have been extensively investigated for more than 10 years.1034-1038 Lanthanide metallocenes catalyze the regiospecific intermolecular addition of primary amines to acetylenic, olefinic, and diene substrates at rates which are —1/1000 those of the most rapid intramolecular analogs. Kinetic and mechanistic data argue for turnover-limiting C=C/C=C insertion into an Ln-N bond, followed by protonolysis of... 

Samuel, E.G. and Norton, J.R. (1984) Mechanism of acetylene and olefin insertion into palladium arbon sigma-bonds. J.Am. Chem. Soc., 106, 5505-12. 

Mechanistic aspects of olefin insertion reactions in catalytic systems have been reviewed. A second review concerned with hydrozirconation of olefins and acetylenes contains sections of interest to readers of this Chapter. ... 

The most efficient catalysts for the homo Diels-Alder reactions of norbornadiene were found to be cobalt327 and nickel328 complexes. The general mechanistic pathway that has been proposed for these reactions has been depicted in equation 161329. According to this mechanism, co-ordination of norbornadiene and the olefin or acetylene to the metal center gives 557, which is in equilibrium with metallocyclopentane complex 558. Then, insertion of the olefin or acetylene in the metal-carbon bond takes place to form 559. Reductive elimination finally liberates the deltacyclane species. 

In 1958, Natta and co-workers polymerized acetylene for the first time by using a Ti-based catalyst. This polymerization proceeds by the insertion mechanism like the polymerization of olefins. Because of the lack of processability and stability, early studies on polyacetylenes were motivated by only theoretical and spectroscopic interests. Thereafter, the discovery of the metallic conductivity of doped polyacetylene in 1977 stimulated research into the chemistry of polyacetylene, and now poly acetylene is recognized as one of the most important conjugated polymers. Many publications are now available about the chemistry and physics of polyacetylene itself. 

Metal Hydrides. Metal hydrides generally react readily with acetylenes, often by an insertion mechanism. Cobalt hydrocarbonyl gives complicated mixtures of compounds with acetylenes. The only products which have been identified so far are dicobalt hexacarbonyl acetylene complexes (34). Greenfield reports that, under conditions of the hydroformy lation reaction, acetylenes give only small yields of saturated monoaldehydes (30), probably formed by first hydrogenating the acetylene and then reacting with the olefin. Other workers have identified a variety of products from acetylene, carbon monoxide, and an alcohol with a cobalt catalyst, probably cobalt hydrocarbonyl. The major products observed were succinate esters (74,19) and succinate half ester acetals (19). 

Organogold(I) complexes undergo a number of insertion reactions with unsaturated molecules, such as olefins, acetylenes, and sulfur dioxide. Insertion of carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide has not been achieved, although the reverse reaction has been observed with C02 (7/). 

Reactions of the recoil C1] with several olefins have been studied, including ethylene, propylene, cyclopentene, and cfs-butene-2, as well as with several paraffins. The type of products observed indicated the existence of several general modes of interaction, such as CH bond insertion, interactions with CC double bonds, formation of methylene-C11. The most important single product in all systems is acetylene, presumably formed by CH insertion and subsequent decomposition of the intermediate. Direct interaction with double bonds is shown by the fact that, for example, in the case of propylene, yields of stable carbon atom addition products were significantly higher than in the case of propane. The same was true for ethylene and ethane. 

Reactions of rhodium(III) porphyrins with olefins and acetylenes - Ogoshi et al. [326] have described the reactions of vinyl ether with rhodium (III) porphyrins which are depicted in reaction sequence (33). Step (a) appears to be an insertion of the olefin into the Rh-Cl bond followed by alcoholysis of a chlorosemiacetal to the acetal, step (b) is the hydrolysis of the acetal to the aldehyde. The insertion is thought to start by heterolysis of the Rh-Cl bond producing a cationic species which forms a 7i-complex with the electron-rich olefin. 

Compounds containing E-H bonds (where E is one of the Group 13 or 14 elements) can undergo insertion reactions with olefins and acetylenes, i.e. ... 

Zirconaaziridines react with unsaturated C-C bonds such as (1) olefins and acetylenes [20], and with unsaturated C-X bonds such as (2) aldehydes and imines [20], (3) heterocumulenes [21,43,49],and (4) carbonates [21,22,43,50] (Scheme 5). The products generated upon workup are a-functionalized amines. Asymmetric transformations can be carried out when a chiral zirconaaziridine or inserting reagent is used optically active allylic amines and amino acid esters have been prepared, and the details of these transformations will be discussed. 

Intermolecular olefin and acetylene insertion into zirconaaziridines has been studied by Buchwald and coworkers. High regio- and diastereoselectivity is observed for the formation of the 3,4-disubstituted product 23 in Eq. 10 [20]. Only a single diastereomer of the resulting chiral amine is isolated upon acidic workup. 

JV-heterocycles can be prepared by inserting olefins or acetylenes with pendant electrophiles. Typical electrophiles used are alkyl halides and epoxides. The latter do not react with the zirconaaziridine, but with the amine generated... 

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