Butadiyne derivatives

The majority of butatrienylidene complexes synthesized or generated so far were obtained by following route a and using butadiyne or a butadiyne derivative as the source of the C4 fragment. A few complexes of iridium or manganese were synthesized by the substitution route c. Until now route b has not been (successfijlly) employed. 

Z)-l-Methoxy-4-(trimethylsilyl)-l-butene-3-yne (3)1 (b.p. 77-79°/12 mm) is prepared by silylation of 1. Lithiation of 3 at -72° provides the anion a, which reacts with various electrophiles to provide methoxy enynes, (equation I). At higher temperatures a is converted into b, which is useful for preparation of butadiyne derivatives. 

Oxidative coupling of terminal acetylenes in the presence of copper(I) catalysts is the best method of preparing symmetrically substituted butadiyne derivatives,5 and has been applied to the coupling of trimethylsilyl-acetylene. Better yields are obtained using the Hay procedure in which the catalyst is the TMEDA complex of copper(I) chloride.7 The procedure submitted here is an improved version of Walton and Waugh s synthesis of BTMSBD by the Hay coupling of trimethylsilylacetylene.2 BTMSBD has also been prepared by... 

Our investigations show that 1,4-disubsituted butadiene derivatives react in layered structures under exclusive formation of 1,i-trans-polymers. A stereoregular polymer is obtained. The structure analyses of the monomer and polymer crystals of 1 show that a lattice-controlled reaction takes place. It is certainly worthwhile studying the course of the reaction more in detail, and to compare the reaction mechanism and kinetics with those of other lattice-controlled reactions, as, for example, the polymerization reactions of diolefin 12Z) and butadiyne derivatives (23). 

Hydrazine hydrate reacts with 1,3-butadiyne moieties in competition with the carbonyl groups. Therefore, tosylhydrazine is employed for the selective reaction with the latter. The sodium salts of the resulting tosylhydrazones are heated to give the diazo compounds 16,18, and 20 [8, 10]. As some of the 1,3-butadiyne derivatives in Table 11-2 undergo spontaneous polymerization in the solid state (see Section 11.4.1), they have to be kept in solution. 1,3-butadiyne units are also known to react with diazo groups [11] and therefore the diazo compounds such as 16, 18, and 20 must be kept refrigerated. 

The photocycloaddition chemistry of pyridines substituted with electron-donor and electron-acceptor groups at the 2- and 3- positions continues to be exploited. The results of irradiation of such pyridines in the presence of 2-cyanofuran have now been described. The yields of the (47r+47r) cycloadducts (29) and (30), the pyridine dimer (31) and the transposition isomer (32) are dependent on the level of methyl substitution on the heteroarene and are given in Scheme 2. Other photocycloadditions to heteroarenes reported within the year include the reactions of benzodithiophene (33) with butadiyne derivatives and dimethyl acetylene dicarboxylate, giving low yields of (34) and (35) respectively, the latter from photorearrangement of the primary adduct (36). The (271+471) photocycloaddition of indoles (37) to cyclohexa-1,3-dienes (38) is sensitized by the aromatic ketones (39), and yields (14-46%) of the exo and endo isomers of the adduct (40) in ratios which are dependent on the substituents on the addends. 

Mechanistic Study on Aldehyde Addition to 1 -Butadiyne-Derived Zirconacyclocumulenes Stereoselective Synthesis of cis-[3]Cumulenols... 

Butadiyne derivatives are known to undergo a solid-state 1,4-addition of the unsaturated units according to... 

Polymerization of Butadiene and Butadiyne Derivatives Table 1. (continued)... 

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