Alkynes complex, protonation

However, it is not known at which point in the alkyne complex proton attack occurs. The kinetic pattern for analogous reactions of the complex [PdfCFaC CCF3)(PPh8)2] is more complicated and this is probably a consequence of reversible loss of triphenylphosphine. 

The vinyl metal intermediate arising from intermolecular nucleophilic addition of an oxygen nucleophile to a metal-alkyne complex has been harnessed for further transformations prior to protonation. An example is the ruthenium-catalyzed benzannulation of 1,5-enedyines that occurs through a tandem sequence involving hydroalk-oxylation, carbometallation, and protonation (Equation (82)).293... 

Another approach toward C-O bond formation using alkynes that has been pursued involves the intermediacy of transition metal vinylidenes that can arise from the corresponding y2-alkyne complexes (Scheme 13). Due to the electrophilicity of the cr-carbon directly bound to the metal center, a nucleophilic addition can readily occur to form a vinyl metal species. Subsequent protonation of the resulting metal-carbon cr-bond yields the product with anti-Markovnikov selectivity and regenerates the catalyst. 

Many examples of complexes containing enynyl ligands are known from reactions of 1-alkynes with various metal complexes two coordination sites are necessary for this reaction. Displacement of the ligand often results in a catalytic cycle of head-to-head dimerization of the alkyne. The protonation may occur by solvent, e.g., MeOH, in other cases acid is required, e.g., CF3CO2H. Coupling... 

R = H, Ph) have been obtained from the anionic [Ru(N4Meg)] and ethyne or HC CPh, respectively [51], In this case, formation of an intermediate r -alkyne complex is unlikely, the probable mechanism being deprotonation of the alkyne and coordination of the alkynyl anion followed by proton transfer. 

Alkynes coordinated to platinum(O) are susceptible to electrophilic attack. The reaction which has been most fully studied is the protonation of complexes Pt(alkyne)(PPh3)2 to give vinyl platinum(Il) complexes then alkenes. The reaction has been discussed in Section 52. The vinyl complexes formed undergo isomerization in the final step, since the cis vinyl complex yields some tracts-alkene. Carbene intermediates have been proposed in the pathway for this isomerization.848 Platinum(II) alkyne complexes can be converted into carbene complexes, and this reaction has been discussed in Section 52.4,6. This pattern of differential reactivity is apparent in the IR spectra of the two sets of complexes. For alkyne complexes of platinum(O) the C==C stretching frequency is lowered by some 450 cm-1 upon coordination, but with the platinum(II) analogs the difference is only in the region of 200 cm-1. 

Vinylidene complexes have been obtained from reactions between PhC=CEPh3 (E = Si, Ge, or Sn) and manganese complexes (11, 18) solvolysis of the C-E bond is followed by transfer of a proton from the solvent. The yields (E = Si, 0% Ge, 1% Sn, 15%) are inversely proportional to the stability of the intermediate tp-alkyne complex. 

It has been suggested that alkene or alkyne complexes are mechanistically important intermediates in hydroalumination and carboalumination reactions (124-126). Clear spectroscopic evidence for n interactions stems from investigations of alkenylaluminum compounds having a suitable intramolecular separation between the aluminum center and the double bond (127). IR and NMR data of these compounds show comparably lower alkene stretching frequencies and deshielded vinylic protons. Furthermore, these molecules are monomeric in solution this indicates that the tendency toward 7i-complex formation is stronger than that toward the dimeric bonding usual in aluminum alkyls. 

Alcohols also react with these Fe-7i-alkyne complexes. The tr-alkenyl complex is not isolated but reacts with the proton released from the alcohol to form a 7i-alkene product [Fp = j -CpFe(CO)2]2 ... 

Although polynuclear alkyne completes are often prepared by reaction of the alkyne with a suitable metal cluster fragment, heteropolynuclear complexes 69 (Scheme 4-38) have been obtained also by isolobal metal fragment substitution, as noted previously [26]. Higher-nuclearity alkyne complexes also can be produced by the addition of various metal carbonyl fragments to a lower-nuclearity alkyne complex [119], A novel entry to heterobi- (and tri-)metallic neutral p-propargyl complexes (e.g., Fe/Mo) via protonation of trinuclear p-Ti, T1 -o-propargyl derivatives 70 was recently described by Wojcicki and coworkers [120,121]. 

Figure 32. The regioselective protonation of alkyne complexes, leading to stereoselective formation of cis or /rans-alkenes.

The photochemistry of metal carbyne complexes is in many ways similar to the photochemistry of metal carbene complexes, but the reactions have not been developed or become as synthetically useful as the photochemistry of metal carbene complexes. Among reported reactions are couplings with ancillary CO ligands to form ketenyl complexes, protonation of the carbyne carbon, insertions into C-H bonds, addition of the carbyne carbon to an alkyne to produce a cyclopropenyl complex, and electron-transfer reactions. ... 

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