Borane complexes platinum-carbon

Silyl(pinacol)borane (88) also adds to terminal alkenes in the presence of a coordinate unsaturated platinum complex (Scheme 1-31) [132]. The reaction selectively provides 1,2-adducts (97) for vinylarenes, but aliphatic alkenes are accompanied by some 1,1-adducts (98). The formation of two products can be rationalized by the mechanism proceeding through the insertion of alkene into the B-Pt bond giving 99 or 100. The reductive elimination of 97 occurs very smoothly, but a fast P-hydride elimination from the secondary alkyl-platinum species (100) leads to isomerization to the terminal carbon. 

A tellurium-containing borane without carbon atoms in the Te — B cage was obtained from B10H14 and sodium polytelluride. The telluraborane BioHjjTe was used for the preparation of cobalt, iron, platinum, rhodium, and iridium complexes, in which the TeBioHjo moiety served as the ligand. 

A theoretical study of the intermediates involved in the formation of phospha-propyne from pyrolysis of vinylphosphirane has led to a new route to phospha-alkynes. Thus, pyrolysis of trimethylsilyl(l-phosphiranyl)diazomethane has yielded MeaSiC = P, via an intermediate 1-phosphiranylmethylene . Regioselec-tivity in the [3 + 2] cycloaddition reaction between phosphaethyne and diazomethane has been studied by theoretical techniques , and further examples of reactions of this type described . Cycloaddition of phospha-alkynes with silylenes has also been reported. The primary phosphine 324 has been isolated from the addition of diethylphosphite to t-butylphosphaethyne. The chemistry of phospha-alkyne cyclotetramer systems has been reviewed and the first examples of platinum(II) complexes of such cage systems described. Aspects of the reactivity of coordinated phospha-alkynes have received further study, and a remarkable metal-mediated double reduction of t-butylphosphaethyne to the complexed fluorophosphine 325 described Phosphorus-carbon-aluminium cage structures have been isolated from the reactions of kinetically stable phospha-alkynes with trialkylaluminium compounds and new phosphaborane systems have been obtained from the reactions of phospha-alkynes with polyhedral boranes . Further studies of wo-phospha-alkyne coordination chemistry have appeared . The reactivity of the ion 326 has been explored. ... 

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