Carbon sigma-bonded complexes

Synthesis and Reactions of Palladium-Carbon Sigma-Bonded Complexes... 

Palladium (II)-Nucleophile Addition across Olefins. Adding palladium complexes to olefins, either in the presence of an external nucleophile or a ligand which is attached to palladium, produces a palladium-carbon sigma-bonded complex which is not usually isolated in the case of monoolefins. Instead it decomposes and in doing so oxidizes the olefin to an organic carbonyl compound or a vinyl compound, exchanges a substituent group on the olefin, isomerizes the double bond, arylates (alkylates) the olefin, or carboxylates the olefin (2, 3). 

In the case of certain diolefins, the palladium-carbon sigma-bonded complexes can be isolated and the stereochemistry of the addition with a variety of nucleophiles is trans (4, 5, 6). The stereochemistry of the addition-elimination reactions in the case of the monoolefins, because of the instability of the intermediate sigma-bonded complex, is not clear. It has been argued (7, 8, 9) that the chelating diolefins are atypical, and the stereochemical results cannot be extended to monoolefins since approach of an external nucleophile from the cis side presents steric problems. The trans stereochemistry has also been attributed either to the inability of the chelating diolefins to rotate 90° from the position perpendicular to the square plane of the metal complex to a position which would favor cis addition by metal and a ligand attached to it (10), or to the fact that methanol (nucleophile) does not coordinate to the metal prior to addition (11). In the Wacker Process, the kinetics of oxidation of olefins suggest, but do not require, the cis hydroxypalladation of olefins (12,13,14). The acetoxypalladation of a simple monoolefin, cyclohexene, proceeds by trans addition (15, 16). 

Canty, A. J. Palladum-Carbon Sigma-bonded Complexes. In Comprehensive OrganometalUc Chemistry // Abel, E. W., Stone, F, G. A, Wilkinson, G., Eds. Elsevier Oxford, 1995 Vol. 9, p 226. 

This article reviews recent results on the chemical, spectral and structural properties of bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl) thorium and uranium dihaptoacyl complexes produced by migratory insertion of carbon monoxide into actinide-carbon sigma bonds. 

Tn most organic syntheses involving palladium, palladium-carbon sigma bonds are involved at some stage in the reaction pathway (J). Two important types of reactions which take place in organo-palladium syntheses are oxidative additions to palladium(O) and addition of palladium (II) complexes across olefins as well as the respective reverse (elimination) reactions. In both these reactions, carbon-palladium sigma bonds are made and broken ... 

An introductory history of organometallic chemistry would be incomplete without mentioning the oldest organometallic compound known, vitamin B12 coenzyme. This naturally occurring cobalt complex (Figure 13.6) contains a cobalt-carbon sigma bond. It is a cofactor in a number of enzymes that catalyze 1,2 shifts in biochemical systems (in margin). 

The CT-bonded Fe and Co complexes are generally unstable upon reduction at the metal center and this electrode reaction may be followed by a cleavage of the metal-carbon bond [12]. This is not the case for the osmium sigma-bonded complex (OEP)Os(Ph)2, which undergoes both oxidations and reductions at the metal center without loss of the axial ligand [79]. 

The key step in this sequence, achieved by exposure of 46 lo a mixture of sulfuric acid and acetic anhydride, involves opening of the cyclopropane ring by migration of a sigma bond from the quaternary center to one terminus of the former cyclo-l>ropane. This complex rearrangement, rather reminiscent of the i enone-phenol reaction, serves to both build the proper carbon. keleton and to provide ring C in the proper oxidation state. 

This means that the ionization and rearrangement need not be concerted and that symmetrical protonated ethylene can not be a major intermediate in the reaction. A similar experiment with isobutylamine and nitrous acid in heavy water gave products that contained no carbon-deuterium bonds. Since it is known that the -complex formed from isobutylene and acid is in rapid equilibrium with protons from the solvent, none of this can be formed in the nitrous acid induced deamination. This in turn makes it probable that the transition state for the hydrogen migration is of the sigma rather than the -bonded type.261... 

Sigma-bond metathesis at hypovalent metal centers Thermodynamically, reaction of H2 with a metal-carbon bond to produce new C—H and M—H bonds is a favorable process. If the metal has a lone pair available, a viable reaction pathway is initial oxidative addition of H2 to form a metal alkyl dihydride, followed by stepwise reductive elimination (the microscopic reverse of oxidative addition) of alkane. On the other hand, hypovalent complexes lack the... 

Metal-Halogen Counpounds. One of the few examples of an olefin insertion into a metal-halogen compound has been reported by Tsuji. The reaction, which also supports the idea that sigma-bonded metal-carbon compounds are intermediates in the palladium chloride-olefin oxidation reaction, was the addition of carbon monoxide to the ethylene palladium chloride 7r-complex in nonaqueous solvents to produce a moderate yield of 3-chloropropionyl chloride (96). 

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