Carbon monoxide allylic compounds

In view of the extensive and fruitful results described above, redox reactions of small ring compounds provide a variety of versatile synthetic methods. In particular, transition metal-induced redox reactions play an important role in this area. Transition metal intermediates such as metallacycles, carbene complexes, 71-allyl complexes, transition metal enolates are involved, allowing further transformations, for example, insertion of olefins and carbon monoxide. Two-electron- and one-electron-mediated transformations are complementary to each other although the latter radical reactions have been less thoroughly investigated. 

Allyl methylcarbonate reacts with norbornene following a ruthenium-catalyzed carbonylative cyclization under carbon monoxide pressure to give cyclopentenone derivatives 12 (Scheme 4).32 Catalyst loading, amine and CO pressure have been optimized to give the cyclopentenone compound in 80% yield and a total control of the stereoselectivity (exo 100%). Aromatic or bidentate amines inhibit the reaction certainly by a too strong interaction with ruthenium. A plausible mechanism is proposed. Stereoselective CM-carboruthenation of norbornene with allyl-ruthenium complex 13 followed by carbon monoxide insertion generates an acylruthenium intermediate 15. Intramolecular carboruthenation and /3-hydride elimination of 16 afford the -olefin 17. Isomerization of the double bond under experimental conditions allows formation of the cyclopentenone derivative 12. 

In the carbonylation reactions, further reaction of the acyl lithium compounds with carbon monoxide can occur, but clean reaction can be achieved if the lithium amide is first converted to a copper derivative (Scheme 130) (79JOC3734). In the case of morpholine, reaction with allyl bromide gave a 93% overall yield of the amide product. 

Cobalt hydrocarbonyl reacts rapidly with conjugated dienes, initially forming 2-butenylcobalt tetracarbonyl derivatives. These compounds lose carbon monoxide at 0°C. or above, forming derivatives of the relatively stable l-methyl-ir-allyl-cobalt tricarbonyl. As with normal alkylcobalt tetracarbonyls, the 2-butenyl derivatives will absorb carbon monoxide, forming the acyl compounds but these acyl compounds also slowly lose carbon monoxide at 0°C. or above, forming 7r-allyl complexes. The acyl compounds can be isolated as the monotriphenylphosphine derivatives (47). 

The compound ir-allyltricarbonylcobalt has also been made by treating allyl bromide with Na[Co(CO)4] 109, 111). If this reaction is carried out in an atmosphere of carbon monoxide then about one-half mol. of carbon monoxide is absorbed, and the infrared absorption spectrum of the product shows a band at about 1720 cm-1. This band is believed to be due to the presence of but-2-enoyltetraearbonylcobalt. On standing, carbon monoxide is evolved and the ir-allyl complex [Co(7r-C3H6)(CO)3] is formed. These reactions may be summarized as follows ... 

The dark red crystalline compound C ELCosOa formed by treating dicobalt octacarbonyl with acetylene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and isopropyl alcohol (57) may have a similar structure, i.e., (LXVIII R = allyl and one CO ligand replaced by the C=C bond of the allyl group). 

In 1971 only two complexes of palladium(I) had been identified.65 Although the area has grown significantly, the relative paucity of palladium cluster compounds can be attributed, in part, to the surprising weakness of palladium-carbon monoxide bonds and in particular those where CO is bound terminally. In this chapter the chemistry of palladium(I) and clusters of palladium in other oxidation states will be considered. However, complexes containing organic ligands such as allyl and cyclopentadienyl will not be dealt with as this area has been reviewed recently in a companion volume.66... 

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Ruthenium-catalyzed carbonylations of allylic compounds [62] were described in Chapter 11. Here, ruthenium-catalyzed carbonylative cyclization of allylic carbonates with alkenes, not alkynes, which offers a new route to cyclopentenones is revealed [63]. Treatment of allyl methyl carbonate with 2-norbornene in the presence of 2.5 mol% [RuCl2(CO)3]2 and 10 mol% Et3N in THE at 120°C for 5 h under 3 atm of carbon monoxide gave the corresponding cyclopentenone, exo-4-methyltri-cyclo[5.2.1.0 ]dec-4-en-3-one, in 80% yield with high stereoselectivity exo 100%) (Eq. 5.37). 

At low temperatures, carbon monoxide replaces all three allyl groups in triallylchromium to give Cr(CO)j (138). The reaction also affords the compound (77-C3H5)jCrCO, which the authors failed to isolate but confirmed by mass spectra. In the same manner, CO replaces one allyl group in tris(77-allyl)iron to give (VI) (139). 

It has been noted that unlike the palladium and platinum complexes, the nickel derivatives afford nickel iodide instead of the free metal. The reaction is accompanied by carbon monoxide evolution, which is increased in the presence of iodine. Independently of the stoichiometric ratio of Pd to Fe employed, the reaction consumes approximately half the amount of allyl-palladium compound. Hence the present authors assume that iron enneacarbonyl produces two moieties under the conditions of reaction ... 

Whilst reaction of acyl chloride 303 with Na[Co(CO)3(PEt3)] affords the oxocyclobut-enyl complex 306" by ring expansion and CO loss, analogous treatment with NaRe(CO)5 delivers the non-fluxional // -cyclopropenylrhenium compound 305" . In the latter case, compound 304 loses carbon monoxide with concomitant migration of the cyclopropenyl moiety from carbonyl to rhenium as an allylic rearrangement rather than a 1,2-shift. 

New functionalizing reactions with carbon monoxide to give carbonyl compounds, in addition to hydroformylation, have been developing rapidly during the past ten years, but mainly for laboratory-scale synthesis. Industrial applications of carbon monoxide in the synthesis of fine chemicals have been until now rare. In this section, applications of the carbonylation of benzyl-, aryl-, and related vinyl-and allyl-X compounds are discussed [1]. Emphasis is given especially to a fundamental understanding and to technically interesting developments. 

Some unexpected rearrangements occur when palladium chloride (PdCl2) is allowed to react with allyl alcohols of the p-menthane series in the presence of carbon monoxide. 7t-Allylpalladium compounds are formed, but after 10 days that from piperitol (128) has rearranged to the 3,4,8-tn7iapto-complex (162) which is obtained from pulegol (163) after 1 h. Menth-3-en-2-ol (127) leads to the same complex after 9 days." ... 

The catalytic [2 + 2 + 1]-cycloaddition reaction of two carbon—carbon multiple bonds with carbon monoxide has become a general synthetic method for five-membered cyclic carbonyl compounds. In particular, the Pauson-Khand reaction has been widely investigated and established as a powerful tool to synthesize cyclopentenone derivatives.110 Various kinds of transition metals, such as cobalt, titanium, ruthenium, rhodium, and iridium, are used as a catalyst for the Pauson-Khand reaction. The intramolecular Pauson-Khand reaction of the allyl propargyl ether and amine 91 produces the bicyclic ketones 93, which bear a heterocyclic ring as shown in Scheme 31. The reaction proceeds through formation of the bicyclic metallacyclopentene intermediate 92, which subsequently undergoes insertion of CO to give 93. 

This alternative to the Friedel-Crafts reaction, extensively developed by Stille and coworkers, is particularly important, since the reaction conditions are essentially neutral, and so provides a method for acylation of compounds containing an acid-sensitive functionality which would preclude the use of the Friedel-Crafts reaction. Reaction temperatures are often below 100 C, and high (1000-fold) turnovers of the catalyst have been achieved. Solvents employed include chloroform, toluene, and, on occasions, HMPA. Some reactions have been carried out under an atmosphere of carbon monoxide to prevent excessive decarbonylation of the acyl palladium intermediate. Indeed, carbonylative coupling of alkenylstannanes with allyl halides in the presence of carbon monoxide ca. 3 atm or greater 1 atm =101 kPa) offers an alternative to the Friedel-Crafts acylation, ketones being formed by the reaction of the stannane with the acyl species formed by carbon monoxide insertion into the allyl palladium intermediate. ... 

Tetracarbonylnickel and other nickel(O) compounds, as well as palladium complexes, catalyze the [2 + 2 + 1] cycloaddition of allylic systems with alkenes or alkynes and carbon monoxide to form cyclopentanones or cyclopentenones. This reaction type resembles stoichiometric zirconium- and cobalt-mediated [2 + 2 + 1] cycloadditions (vide supra), mechanistically, however, it proceeds via transition metal 7r-allyl complexes. 

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