Carbenes, heterocyclic

The carbenes derived from six- [20-22] and seven-membered heterocycles [22-24, 70] of type 14 can be obtained both with an aliphatic or an aromatic backbone. The characteristic NMR resonances for the C2 carbon atoms in six-membered carbene heterocycles (8 236-248 ppm) [20, 21] have been recorded in the same range as the Ccarbene resonances for saturated imidazolidin-2-ylidenes of type 7. Dimerization to enetetramines occurs for some carbenes derived from a six-membered heterocycle [21] and this behavior is independent from the nature of the backbone (saturated or unsaturated), but depends strongly on the steric bulk of the N,N -substituents. 

Very recently, Stahl et al. reported the first synthesis of a 7-membered NHC ligand [98]. Despite substantial effort, the isolation of the free carbene 21 was not successful. However, palladium complexes of 21 could be formed and structurally characterized. Ligand 21 is C2 symmetric as a result of a torsional twist which is thought to attenuate the antiaromatic character of the 87r-electron carbene heterocycle [101,102]. It will be interesting to see, if the synthesis of conformationally stable analogues and their application in asymmetric catalysis will be feasible. 

Carbenoids present a full range of reactivities some are extremely reactive species (e.g., copper carbenoids have never been observed, even by spectroscopy) others arc very stable compounds. Such a dramatic stabilization, discovered by Fischer [13), occurs when some soft transition metals complexes (Mo, W, Pd) are associated with a very stabilized (soft) carbene (e.g., alkoxy or dialkoxy-carbenes, heterocyclic carbenes, etc.). 

Keywords Desmotropy Heterocyclic carbenes Heterocyclic ring systems Heterocyclic ylides Mesoionic compounds Tautomerism... 

Unusual type of P-based cyclophane 154 containing NH,NH-functionalized carbene heterocyclic fragment coordinated to the transition metal was obtained by metal template assisted cyclization reactions of the diphosphine hgand bearing reactive 2-fluoro substiments at phenyl groups on phosphorus atoms and carbene heterocycle in coordination sphere of 153 (Scheme 12.57). Aerial oxidation of the complexes of the cyclophane hgand resulted in the isolation of the free macrocycle as di(phosphine oxide)/imidazolidinium salt [142, 143]. 

Furan and thiophene undergo addition reactions with carbenes. Thus cyclopropane derivatives are obtained from these heterocycles on copper(I) bromide-catalyzed reaction with diazomethane and light-promoted reaction with diazoacetic acid ester (Scheme 41). The copper-catalyzed reaction of pyrrole with diazoacetic acid ester, however, gives a 2-substituted product (Scheme 42). 

Utilization of carbenes in the synthesis of five-membered heterocycles with two or more heteroatoms has not been featured prominently in the synthetic strategies developed for these ring systems. The following illustrations show their considerable promise. 

Cyclopent-2-en-l-one, 2-hydroxy-3-methyl-synthesis, 3, 693 Cyclopentenone, 4-methoxy-formation, 1, 423 Cyclopenthiazide as diuretic, 1, 174 Cyclopent[2,3-d]isoxazol-4-one structure, 6, 975 Cyclophane conformation, 2, 115 photoelectron spectroscopy, 2, 140 [2,2]Cyclophane conformation, 2, 115 Cyclophanes nomenclature, 1, 27 Cyclophosphamide as pharmaceutical, 1, 157 reviews, 1, 496 Cyclopiloselloidin synthesis, 3, 743 Cyclopolymerization heterocycle-forming, 1, 292-293 6H-Cyclopropa[5a,6a]pyrazolo[l,5-a]pyrimidine pyrazoles from, 5, 285 Cydopropabenzopyran synthesis, 3, 700 Cyclopropachromenes synthesis, 3, 671 Cyclopropa[c]dnnolines synthesis, 7, 597 Cyclopropanation by carbenes... 

Three-membered heterocyclic compounds are available when one atom fragments like carbenes [108 or phosphorus compounds [109] add to C=0 ot C=N bonds (equation 26)... 

In this review an attempt is made to discuss all the important interactions of highly reactive divalent carbon derivatives (carbenes, methylenes) and heterocyclic compounds and the accompanying molecular rearrangements. The most widely studied reactions have been those of dihalocarbenes, particularly dichlorocarbene, and the a-ketocarbenes obtained by photolytic or copper-catalyzed decomposition of diazo compounds such as diazoacetic ester or diazoacetone. The reactions of diazomethane with heterocyclic compounds have already been reviewed in this series. ... 

The reactions of carbenes, which are apparently unique in displaying electrophilic character in strongly basic solutions, include substitution, addition to multiple bonds, and co-ordination with lone pairs of electrons to form unstable ylides. This last reaction is of obvious relevance to a consideration of the reactions of heterocyclic compounds with carbenes and will be summarized. 

Very few reactions of carbenes with heterocyclic systems containing more than one hetero atom have been studied. They are confined to variants of the Reimer-Tiemann formylation of thiazoles, pyra-zoles, iminazoles, and indolizines/ and ring expansion does not appear to have been observed. 

The third volume of this series covers three specific groups of compounds the carbolines (reviewed by R. A. Abramovitch and I. D. Spenser), the thiatriazoles (K. A. Jensen and C. Pedersen), and the pentazoles (I. Ugi). The remaining four chapters deal with topics of general chemical interest from the heterocyclic viewpoint the quaternization of heterocyclics (G. F. Duffin), carbene reactions (C. W. Rees and C. E. Smithen), applications of the Hammett equation (H. H. Jaffe and H. Lloyd Jones), and some aspects of the nucleophilic substitution of heterocyclic azines (G. Rluminati). 

The Reactions of Heterocyclic Compounds with Carbenes C. W. Rees and C. E. Smithen... 

Heterocycles as ligands in asymmetric catalytic metal carbene transformations 98CRV911. 

Carbene transfer reactions with participation of organometallic compounds bearing heterocyclic substituents 99CSR315. 

New catalysts and methods for enantioselective metal carbene reactions in syntheses of O- and N-heterocycles 98PAC1123. 

Annelation of chromium carbene complexes in synthesis of heterocycles 99CSR187. 

Heterocyclizations by reactions of electrophilic carbenes with a-amino acids derivatives 97T3425. 

Cyclic Si-, Ge-, Sn- and Pb-analogs of carbenes and alkenes 99EJI373. Germylenes and germanium double-bonded species in heterocyclic organoger-manium chemistry 99KGS1155. 

Another aspect of this problem is the existence of heterocyclic carbenes containing a low-valent gallium center, 49 (95JA5421,98EJIC305,99JA9758, 01 JCS(D)3459). 1,4-Bis(2,6-di-Ao-propylphenyl)-l, 4-diazabuta-l, 3-diene... 

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