Allylnickel halides

The behavior of 3 toward ether or amines on the one hand and toward phosphines, carbon monoxide, and COD on the other (Scheme 2), can be qualitatively explained on the basis of the HSAB concept4 (58). The decomposition of 3 by ethers or amines is then seen as the displacement of the halide anion as a weak hard base from its acid-base complex (3). On the other hand, CO, PR3, and olefins are soft bases and do not decompose (3) instead, complexation to the nickel atom occurs. The behavior of complexes 3 and 4 toward different kinds of electron donors explains in part why they are highly active as catalysts for the oligomerization of olefins in contrast to the dimeric ir-allylnickel halides (1) which show low catalytic activity. One of the functions of the Lewis acid is to remove charge from the nickel, thereby increasing the affinity of the nickel atom for soft donors such as CO, PR3, etc., and for substrate olefin molecules. A second possibility, an increase in reactivity of the nickel-carbon and nickel-hydrogen bonds toward complexed olefins, has as yet found no direct experimental support. 

Examples of w-allylnickel-X compounds (X = anionic ligand) other than 77-allylnickel halides which have been used in combination with (alkyl)aluminum halides as olefin oligomerization catalysts are 7r-allyl-nickel acetylacetonate (11) (Section III), 7r-allylnickel aziridide (4, 56), and bis(7r-allyl)nickel (6) (59). In addition to ir-allylnickel halides, organo-nickel halides such as tritylnickel chloride (60, 61) and pentafluoro-phenylbis(triphenylphosphine)nickel bromide (62), or hydridonickel halides, e.g., trans-hydridobis(triisopropylphosphine)nickel chloride (12) (Section III), give active catalysts after activation with aluminum halides... 

Method B2 A modification of method B4 for the preparation of catalysts starting from organonickel halides consists in the exchange of the halide anion by an anion of a strong complex acid, HY. This has been accomplished by reacting 7r-allylnickel halides (1) or their phosphine adducts (2) with silver salts (65) ... 

Allylnickel halides also react with quinones (example 5, Table IV). 

It has been known that 7r-allylnickel halides are catalysts for polymerization of butadiene (50, 51). When the halide is chloride, the polymer formed is cis-polybutadiene when the halide is iodide, the polymer is trans-polybutadiene. Porri and co-workers (50) interpret this effect in terms of the ease of dissociation of the dimeric complex 29 by butadiene. The chloride complex... 

TT-ALLYLNICKEL HALIDES METHALLYLBENZENE, 52, 115 Rearrangement of epoxides to allylic alcohols, 53, 17 Reduction, by controlled-po-tential electrolysis, 52, 22 by lithium aluminum hydride of exo-3,4-dichlorobicyclo [3.2.l]oct-2-ene to 3-chlorobicyclo[3.2.l]oct-2-ene, 51, 61... 

REACTION OF ARYL HALIDES WITH Tt-ALLYLNICKEL HALIDES METHALLYLBENZENE... 

P,y-Unsaturated ketones7i-Allylnickel halides (4, 33) react with 2-pyridyl-carboxylic acid esters to form a mixture of p,y- and a,/i-unsaturatcd ketones in which the former isomer predominates (equation I). 2-Pyridylbenzoate can be used... 

Allylic amide isomerization, 117 Allylic amine isomerization ab initio calculations, 110 catalytic cycle, 104 cobalt-catalyzed, 98 double-bond migration, 104 isotope-labeling experiments, 103 kinetics, 103 mechanism, 103 model system, 110 NMR study, 104 rhodium-catalyzed, 9, 98 Allylnickel halides, 170 Allylpalladium intermediates, 193 Allylsilane protodesilylation, 305 Aluminum, chiral catalysts, 216, 234, 310 Amide dimers, NMR spectra, 282, 284 Amines ... 

A greater variety of substituted isocoumarins is available from the reaction of 7r-allylnickel halides with the sodium salts of 2-bromobenzoic acids. Use of the sodium salt is necessary to prevent debromination through an intramolecular proton transfer from the carboxyl group. The initial products, 2-allylbenzoic acids, undergo a palladium-assisted ring closure to isocoumarins. 

The discovery that, in strongly polar media, 7r-allylnickel halides react with a wide variety of organic halides has introduced what promises to be a most useful method for the selective combination of unlike groups (22)... 

A second mode of reaction is available in which unreacted allyl halide or 7r-allylnickel halide complex apparently reacts with either (XXII), or the acyl chloride formed from (XXII), and with (XXIII) to give the... 

Soon after, it was reported that allylnickel halides could polymerise butadiene to crystalline polymers consisting of cis-1,4 or trans-1,4 units [36] and that trisally lehr omium polymerised it predominantly to 1,2-poly butadiene but bisal-lylcobalt iodide polymerised it predominantly to cis- 1,4-poly butadiene [37],... 

Polymerization was carried out in benzene in the presence of bis-(7r-allylnickel halides). The latter were prepared from nickel carbonyl and allyl halide (allyl bromide, crotyl chloride, bromide, or iodide etc.). The results of the polymerization runs are reported in Table I. The data indicate that all of the bis(7r-allylnickel halides) initiate by themselves the stereospecific butadiene polymerization yielding a polymer with 97-98% 1,4-units. The cis-l,4/trans-l,4 ratio depends on the halide in the dimeric r-allylnickel halide but not on the nature of allylic ligand. The case of bis(7r-crotylnickel halides) shows the effect of halide on microstructure, for whereas (C4H7NiCl)2 initiates cis- 1,4-polybutadiene formation, trans-1,4 polymers are produced by (C4H7NiI)2. The reactivity increase in the series Cl < Br < I. 

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