Allyl, fluxional complexes

Scheme 7.15] or S -type mechanism [Equation (7.9)]. Depending on the nature of the nucleophile and catalyst employed, the subsequent nucleophilic substitution of the metal can follow either via a-elimination [path A, Equations (7.8) and (7.9), Scheme 7.15], via an SN2 reaction (path B) or via an SN2 -type reaction (path C). For reasons of clarity, only strictly concerted and stereospecific SN2- or SN2 -anti-type mechanistic scenarios are shown in Scheme 7.15. The situation might, however, be complicated if, e.g., the initial S l -anti ionization event is competing with an Sn2 -syn reaction. Erosion in stereo- and regioselectivity can be the result of these competing reactions. Furthermore, fluxional intermediates such as 7t-allyl Fe complexes are not shown in Scheme 7.15 for reasons of clarity. These intermediates are known for a variety of late transition metal allyl complexes and will be referred to later. Moreover, apart from these ionic mechanisms, radicals might also be involved in the reaction. So far no distinct mechanistic study on allylic substitutions has been published.

Fluxional behaviour, 73-allyl palladium complexes, 8, 371 Formamidinates, in chromium complexes, 5, 355 Formates, with Ru and Os half-sandwiches, 6, 483... 

The structures of jj3-allyl complexes of platinum have been fully summarized by Hartley in Chapter 39 of Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry . This article also details the NMR methods used to investigate fluxionality of the r/3-allyl ligand. 

The iron complex of 1,2-cycloheptadiene was synthesized to study the relationship between 312 and a valence isomeric form (316) that has been referred to as the allyl cation form (Scheme 39).119 Because of ring strain, the latter had been predicted by EHMO calculations to lie rather close in energy to an allene ground state.126 The NMR of 312 confirmed the allene form as the ground state and fluxionality experiments on the terminal allene... 

Transition-metal complexes of the more highly unsaturated seven-mem-bered allene 1,2,4,6-cycloheptatetraene have been isolated in two forms depending on the metal and its ligands an allene form (329), which is a complex of the parent cycloheptatetraene 327,134 and a carbene form (330/331), which is a complex of the controversial cycloheptatrienylidene 328.4135136 The carbene form corresponds to the allyl cation (320) that was suggested as an intermediate/transition state for fluxionality of 318. Scheme 42 lists all such complexes that have been prepared to date. The allene form is the ground state for all Pt(0) complexes (343, 344, 345, 347)82,83,130 137 138 and one dibenzannelated W(II) complex139 (346), whereas the carbene form is the ground state for all Fe(II)+ complexes (332-336),140-143 all Ru(II)+ complexes (337-340),144 one Pt(II)+ complex (342),137 and one W(0) complex (341).139... 

Allyl complexes are characteristically fluxional, the principal pathway being the rf-rf-rf process shown below. 

Variable temperature H NMR spectroscopy of a series of Sc and Y metallocene allyl complexes indicates flux-ional (see Fluxional Molecule and Structure Property Maps for Inorganic Solids) behavior involving C-C... 

In spite of the growing number of examples, the thermal instability of d° carbonyl complexes see Carbonyl Compound) has often precluded their isolation. The use of an allyl ligand can stabihze the corresponding complex through a strong a n donation completely inhibiting fluxionality of the complex (equation 64). ... 

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