Allyl complexes group 10 metals

References to Some Allyl Main Group Metal Complexes... 

In addition, a catalytic version of Tt-allylpalladium chemistry has been devel-oped[6,7]. Formation of the Tr-allylpalladium complexes by the oxidative addition of various allylic compounds to Pd(0) and subsequent reaction of the complex with soft carbon nucleophiles are the basis of catalytic allylation. After the reaction, Pd(0) is reformed, and undergoes oxidative addition to the allylic compounds again, making the reaction catalytic.-In addition to the soft carbon nucleophiles, hard carbon nucleophiles of organometallic compounds of main group metals are allylated with 7r-allylpalladium complexes. The reaction proceeds via transmetallation. These catalytic reactions are treated in this chapter. 

Table IV presents the results of the determination of polyethylene radioactivity after the decomposition of the active bonds in one-component catalysts by methanol, labeled in different positions. In the case of TiCU (169) and the catalyst Cr -CjHsU/SiCU (8, 140) in the initial state the insertion of tritium of the alcohol hydroxyl group into the polymer corresponds to the expected polarization of the metal-carbon bond determined by the difference in electronegativity of these elements. The decomposition of active bonds in this case seems to follow the scheme (25) (see Section V). But in the case of the chromium oxide catalyst and the catalyst obtained by hydrogen reduction of the supported chromium ir-allyl complexes (ir-allyl ligands being removed from the active center) (140) C14 of the...

Attempts to synthesize transition metal alkyl compounds have been continuous since 1952 when Herman and Nelson (1) reported the preparation of the compound C H6>Ti(OPri)3 in which the phenyl group was sigma bonded to the metal. This led to the synthesis by Piper and Wilkinson (2) of (jr-Cpd)2 Ti (CH3)2 in 1956 and a large number of compounds of titanium with a wide variety of ligands such as ir-Cpd, CO, pyridine, halogen, etc., all of which were inactive for polymerization. An important development was the synthesis of methyl titanium halides by Beerman and Bestian (3) and Ti(CH3)4 by Berthold and Groh (4). These compounds show weak activity for ethylene polymerization but are unstable at temperatures above — 70°C. At these temperatures polymerizations are difficult and irreproduceable and consequently the polymerization behavior of these compounds has been studied very little. In 1963 Wilke (5) described a new class of transition metal alkyl compounds—x-allyl complexes,... 

Remarkably high reactivity of cationic alkyl complexes of Group 4 metals with 1-alkenes has been observed in gas-phase reactions [129]. Typical ionic species such as TiCl2Me+ react with ethylene, and the insertion followed by H2 elimination gives rise to a cationic allyl complex TiCl2C3H5, which does not react further with ethylene. 

The allyl group is able to form both a- and jr-bonded complexes with the actinides. The 71 complexes will be considered here because of the similarities of the homoal-lyls with the lanthanide and actinide homoalkyls. The limiting modes of bonding in metal allyl complexes and the ratio of PMR intensities from magnetically equi valent protons are illustrated in Fig. 14. 

The bridging chlorine atoms in these ir-allylicpalladium complexes are readily replaced by bromine, iodine, or the thiocyanate group by treatment with the corresponding alkali metal salt in a suitable solvent such as acetone 105, 194). The chlorine bridge is split by amines for example, the ir-allyl complex [PdCl(7r-CsH6)]2, with p-toluidine, gives [PdCl(7r-C3H6) (p-tolui-dine)] as stable, pale yellow crystals (105). 

It was later found that stable organometallic compounds of transition metals exhibiting very low polymerization activity could be transformed into high-activity catalysts when deposited on silica, alumina, or silica-alumina.287-289 Interaction of surface hydroxyl groups with the organometallic compounds such as chromocenes, benzyl, and Tt-allyl complexes results in the formation of surface-bound organometallic complexes (41-43) 289-291... 

The addition of Grignards and organolithium reagents proceeds by attack at the metal center in ir-allylpalladium complexes. The regiochemical selectivity exhibited by these hard carbon nucleophiles with ir-allyl complexes substituted at the termini with alkyl or aryl groups is comparable to the soft carbon nucleophiles (ligand attack) in most cases, with addition occurring predominantly at the less substituted terminus (equations 248 and 249).1591387... 

An example of a tethered arene complex of ruthenium(II) in which the auxiliary ligand is a a-bonded carbon atom is complex 80, which is formed by the action of AgBF4 and P(OMe)3 on the r 4-tetraphenylcyclobutadiene r 3-allyl complex 79 [Eq. (13)]. In the proposed mechanism, the allyl group migrates to the four-membered ring, which opens to generate an intermediate cation 81, the pendant arene of which coordinates to the metal.74... 

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