Arene complexes bonding

Ti-arene complexes Complexes in which an aromatic system is bonded to a metal through its r-electrons. Generally only applied to complexes of uncharged aromatic systems, e.g. [(CeHe)2Cr] but formally applied to any complex of an aromatic system, e.g. [(CjH5)2Fe] as a complex of (C5H3)". 

The only reported X-ray structure of a it-bonded diiodine exists in the 12/coronene associate [75], which shows the I2 to be located symmetrically between the aromatic planes and to form infinite donor/acceptor chains. -Coordination of diiodine over the outer ring in this associate is similar to that observed in the bromine/arene complexes (vide supra), and the I - C separation of 3.20 A is also significantly contracted relative to the stun of their van der Waals radii [75]. For the highly reactive dichlorine, only X-ray structures of its associates are observed with the n-type coordination to oxygen of 1,4-dioxane [76], and to the chlorinated fullerene [77]. 

Good yields of l-arylaminoquinolin-2-ones are obtained when the azo-arene complexes 116 are treated with hexafluorobut-2-yne (Scheme 141).214 This procedure is particularly novel in the chemistry of orthometallated complexes in that the primary organometallic products (117) arise from the formal insertion of a three carbon unit [CO + C2(CF3)2] into the aryl-cobalt bond of 116. A wider study of the scope of this type of process using a variety of orthometallated complexes would be desirable. 

In addition to [Hg( -toluene)2-(GaCI/ )2],168 other mercury-arene complexes of general formula [I Ig( /2-arene)2-(AlCUy have been prepared.169 These include the bis(toluene), bis(o-xylene), and bis(l,2,3-trimethylbenzene) complexes 159, 160, and 161, respectively, whose structures have all been determined (Figure 8). While the arene in 159 and 161 is coordinated in an asymmetrical -fashion, the /2-1,2,3-trim ethylbenzene ligands of 160 form two nearly equal Hg-C bonds of 2.45 and 2.46 A. DFT calculations show that the Hg-arene interactions are mostly ionic. 

Fig. 2. Ligand substitution as a prodrug strategy for metallochem-otherapeutics (a) general scheme of prodrug activation by ligand substitution hydrolysis of a metal—halide bond is a typical activation pathway of metal-based anticancer drugs, as exemplified by the activation of cisplatin (b) and a ruthenium—arene complex (c).

The crystal structure of (ij4-cyclooctatetraene)(hexamethylbenzene)ruthenium (16) indicates bonding as a tetrahapto ligand60. For this complex and similar iron-, ruthenium- and osmium-(ij4-cyclooctatetraene)(arene) complexes, their XH and 13C NMR spectra exhibit only a single signal for the cyclooctatetraene ligand at temperatures as low as —145 °C. Using this temperature, the barrier-to-metal migration is estimated to be <6.6 kcal mol 1. 

Although attempts to acylate bisbenzenechromium under Friedel-Crafts conditions have thus far resulted in cleavage of the ring-metal bond, the successful metalation of this 7r-arene complex has been recently reported, using amylsodium (10). The resulting dimetalated product has been characterized as a dicarb-methoxy derivative, although the position of the two substituents has not yet been determined. 

The authors propose that the influence of the phenyl group is not an electronic effect, as no product formation is observed with palladium catalysts known to be highly active in disilane systems substituted with electronegative elements. Rather, the phenyl group may allow for precoordination via a w-arene complex, which would accelerate the oxidative addition of an Si-Si bond to platinum, a key step in the proposed catalytic cycle. 

The addition-protonation procedure maintains the arene-chromium bond and allows further application of the activating effect of the metal. In an approach to the synthesis of anthraquinone antibiotics, the dihydronaphthalene complex (79) was allowed to react with a cyanohydrin acetal anion and then quenched with acid.129 The resulting tetralin complex (80) could be metallated effectively and carried on to a key intermediate (81) in anthraquinone construction (equation 54)... 

Some examples have been reported of tethered r 6-arene complexes of molyb-denum(II) and tungsten(II) that incorporate oxygen as the auxiliary donor atom.37 40 Reaction of neat 2,6-diphenylphenol with [MH4(PMePh2)4] (M = Mo, W) at 150 °C gives the tethered hydrido(aryloxo)metal(II) complexes 30 and 31.36 A metal-hydride bond is probably first cleaved by the phenolic oxygen with loss of H2 coordination of the pendant arene then induces loss of another equivalent of H2. 

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