Allyl metals

Allylic metal compounds useful for further transformations can be prepared by Pd-catalyzed reactions of allylic compounds with bimetallic reagents. By this transformation, umpolung of nucleophilic 7r-allylpalladium complexes to electrophilic allylmetal species can be accomplished. Transfer of an allyl moiety from Pd to Sn is a typical umpolung. 

Addition of carbon nucleophiles to vinylepoxides is of particular importance, since a new carbon-carbon bond is formed. It is of considerable tactical value that conditions allowing for regiocontrolled opening of vinyloxiranes with this type of nucleophiles have been developed. Reactions that proceed through fonnation of a rr-allyl metal intermediate with subsequent external delivery of the nucleophile, or that make use of a soft carbon nucleophile, generally deliver the SN2 product. In contrast, the Sn2 variant is often the major reaction pathway when hard nucleophiles are employed. In some methods a nucleophile can be delivered selectively at either the Sn2 or SN2 positions by changing the reaction conditions. 

In addition to the previously described models many of the 1,3-asymmetric inductions can be explained by the extended Cram model 4, especially the allyl-metalation reactions6. 

As the results show, the chirality of the a-alkoxy center, as well as the type of allyl metal employed, are the two most important determinants for the stereochemical outcome of the reaction. In other words, the 1,2-asymmetric induction combined with the right choice of the allyl organometallic overrides the influence of the chiral nitrogen substituent. 

A variety of routes are available for the preparation of allylsilanes (/) with the simplest and most direct being the silylation of allyl-metal species. Other routes exemplified in this chapter include Wittig methodology, the use of silyl anions/anionoids in allylic substitution, and hydrometallation of... 

Pseudo-allyl metal carbonyl complexes. T. Inglis, Inorg. Chim. Acta, Rev., 1973, 7, 35-42 (43). 

Many methods have been reported for the addition of allylic groups, including allyltrialkyltin compounds" (in the presence of BF3-etherate), as well as other allylic metal compounds." Allylic alcohols and homo allylic alcohols add to aldehydes in the presence of Sn(OT02 " For allylic halides, both activated... 

Alkali Metal Derivatives of Metal Carbonyls, 2, 1S7 Alkyl and Aryl Derivatives of Transition Metals, 7, 1S7 Alkyl cobalt and Acylcobalt Tetracarbonyls, 4, 243 Allyl Metal Complexes, 2, 32S... 

Comparison of IR and ED data for the C3H5 radical with IR and X-ray data of ir-allyl metal complexes shows that the formation of such complexes... 

Compared with allylation, homoallylation has received little attention both in stoichiometric organometallic chemistry and in catalytic transition metal chemistry [24-26]. This is apparently owing to the difficult availability and the poor reactivity of a homoallyl metal species as compared with an allyl metal species. 

Assuming a reactive oxonium ylide 147 (or its metalated form) as the central intermediate in the above transformations, the symmetry-allowed [2,3] rearrangement would account for all or part of 148. The symmetry-forbidden [1,2] rearrangement product 150 could result from a dissociative process such as 147 - 149. Both as a radical pair and an ion pair, 149 would be stabilized by the respective substituents recombination would produce both [1,2] and additional [2,3] rearrangement product. Furthermore, the ROH-insertion product 146 could arise from 149. For the allyl halide reactions, the [1,2] pathway was envisaged as occurring via allyl metal complexes (Scheme 24) rather than an ion or radical pair such as 149. The remarkable dependence of the yield of [1,2] product 150 on the allyl acetal substituents seems, however, to justify a metal-free precursor with an allyl cation or allyl radical moiety. 

The transition-metal induced rearrangement of strained cyclopropanes is mostly caused by inserting metal atoms into a three-membered ring, thus producing metallacycles and/or rf- allyl metal complexes. Tipper reported the first example of the metallacycles obtained from [Pt(C2H4)Cl2]2 [3]. The stereospecific addition of cyclopropanes has been investigated from both mechanistic and synthetic view points [4],... 

Osborn and Green s elegant results are instructive, but their relevance to metathesis must be qualified. Until actual catalytic activity with the respective complexes is demonstrated, it remains uncertain whether this chemistry indeed relates to olefin metathesis. With this qualification in mind, their work in concert is pioneering as it provides the initial experimental backing for a basic reaction wherein an olefin and a metal exclusively may produce the initiating carbene-metal complex by a simple sequence of 7r-complexation followed by a hydride shift, thus forming a 77-allyl-metal hydride entity which then rearranges into a metallocyclobutane via a nucleophilic attack of the hydride on the central atom of the 7r-allyl species ... 

Silastannative cyclization of bis(diene) catalyzed by PdC cod) achieves formal 1,8-silastannative G-G bond formation (Equation (118)).125 Poor stereoselectivity at the allylic metal moieties (E/Z) is observed. 

Substrate control This refers to the addition of an achiral enolate (or allyl metal reagent) to a chiral aldehyde (generally bearing a chiral center at the a-position). In this case, diastereoselectivity is determined by transition state preference according to Cram-Felkin-Ahn considerations.2... 

Reagent control This involves the addition of a chiral enolate or allyl metal reagent to an achiral aldehyde. Chiral enolates are most commonly formed through the incorporation of chiral auxiliaries in the form of esters, acyl amides (oxazolines), imides (oxazolidinones) or boron enolates. Chiral allyl metal reagents are also typically joined with chiral ligands. 

Double stereodifferentiation This refers to the addition of a chiral enolate or allyl metal reagent to a chiral aldehyde. Enhanced stereoselectivity can be obtained when the aldehyde and reagent exhibit complementary facile preference (matched case). Conversely, diminished results might be observed when their facial preference is opposed (mismatched pair). 

It is only since the early 1980s that significant progress has been made with aldol reactions. This chapter introduces some of the most important developments on the addition of metallic enolates and the more important of the related allylic metal derivatives to carbonyl compounds. These processes are depicted as paths A and B in Scheme 3-1. 

Catalytic Asymmetric Alkylation of n-Allyl Metal Complexes... 

In general, transition metal-catalyzed addition reactions to 1,3-dienes gave 1,4-adducts via 7t-allyl metal intermediates.23 The ar //-Markovnikov 1,2-addition mode of this reaction is therefore unusual (Scheme 17). It was noted that the configuration of the 3-olefin was retained with either ( )- or (Z)-1,3-dienes. The observation that the 3-olefin was unimportant for this reaction strongly suggests that the method could be applicable to unactivated alkenes. 

The isomerisation of allyl and propargylic alcohols involves the 1,3-shift of an oxygen atom rather than a hydrogen atom. Isomerisation of allyl alcohols can be catalysed by a variety of metal oxo complexes and in this instance the reaction does not involve metal carbon bonds as we will see. One could imagine that allylic metal species can participate in isomerisation of allylic compounds, but for the alcohols themselves this is not an easy reaction. In chapter 13 reactions of allyl acetates and the like, which are more prone to... 

For selected examples of chirally modified allyl metal reagents, see [207-220]. 

For further details of this reaction, the reader is referred to Chapter 9. The catalytic allylation with nucleophiles via the formation of Ti-allyl metal intermediates has produced synthetically useful compounds, with the palladium-catalyzed reactions being known as Tsuji-Trost reactions [31]. The reactivity of Ti-allyl-iridium complexes has been widely studied [32] for example, in 1997, Takeuchi idenhfied a [lrCl(cod)]2 catalyst which, when combined with P(OPh)3, promoted the allylic alkylation of allylic esters 74 with sodium diethyl malonate 75 to give branched... 

From Hard Allylic Organometallics. The most common preparation of allylic boranes and boronates is the addition of a reactive allylic metal species to a borinic or boric ester, respectively (Eqs. 10 and 11). Preparations from allyllithium, " " allylmagnesium, and allylpotassium " ° reagents are all well known. These methods are popular because the required allylic anions are quite easy to prepare, and because they generally lead to high yields of products. 

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