Chelating amine-imine

Successful examples of chelate assisted activation of aromatic C-F bonds provided the foundation for further exploration of the organometallic chemistry of fluorocarbons. While early examples were limited to perfluorinated aromatic systems, the scope of this process is now fully defined using W(CO)3 and PtMe2 metal fragments [44, 29]. In addition to these amine, imine based ligand systems, several new examples of C-F activation have been achieved using a variety of later transition metals. 

Chelating ferrocene phosphine L18 was reported by Hartwig to efficiently catalyze the amination of most aryl chlorides with any type of primary aliphatic amine, imine, or hydrazine at 80-100 °C with NaOf-Bu in DME. Base sensitive aryl chlorides, or those containing acidic protons, may be aminated using LiHMDS as the stoichiometric base. Impressively, catalyst loadings as low as 0.005 mol% can be used. 

The many synthetic methods available for preparing NHCs have allowed for their ready incorporation into an increasingly diverse set of multidentate ligands. The topic of chelating ligands containing NHCs has been covered in several reviews.Heteroleptic variations have included phosphines, amines, imines, pyridines, oxazolines, amides, alkoxides, aryloxides, thioethers, and other donors. 

Addition of methyllithium to the enantiomerically pure arene dicarbonylchromium chelate 2, prepared by irradiation of imine l52 [derived from ( 1 )-(S)-tricarbonyl(2-methylbenzalde-hyde)chromium53] and subsequent removal of the chromium moiety provides amine 3 in 72% yield and 94% ee54. Interestingly, addition of methyllithium to imine 1 affords only racemic 3. 

The above-described structures are the main representatives of the family of nitrogen ligands, which cover a wide spectrum of activity and efficiency for catalytic C - C bond formations. To a lesser extent, amines or imines, associated with copper salts, and metalloporphyrins led to good catalysts for cyclo-propanation. Interestingly, sulfinylimine ligands, with the chirality provided solely by the sulfoxide moieties, have been also used as copper-chelates for the asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction. Amide derivatives (or pyridylamides) also proved their efficiency for the Tsuji-Trost reaction. 

If the amine carries a chelating substituent, as for 2-methoxyethylamine, the rate of deprotonation is accelerated. For any specific imine, ring substituents also influence the imine conformation and rate of deprotonation. These relationships reflect steric, stereoelectronic, and chelation influences, and sorting out each contribution can be challenging. 

Amines can react with various carbonyl compounds and their derivatives in aqueous media to give the corresponding imine derivatives. These reactions have been discussed in related chapters. The synthetically most useful reaction of this type is the formation of imines and imine derivatives from the condensation of amines with aldehydes and ketones. Water is an excellent solvent for such condensation reactions. For example, water was found to be an ideal solvent for a high-yield, fast preparation of easily hydrolyzable 2-pyrrolecarbaldimines.23 In the presence of Cu2+, the reaction afforded the corresponding Cu(II) chelates (Eq. 11.19). 

The most commonly encountered N-donor ligands, the amines, are not usually associated with Co in its low oxidation states. However, unsaturation coupled with chelation opens up many opportunities for the stabilization of monovalent Co with N donors such as imines, porphyrins, and pyrazoles. 

Reactions of selected metal complexes of multidentate amines with formaldehyde and a range of carbon acids (such as nitroethane) have led to ring-closure reactions to yield a series of three-dimensional cage molecules (see Chapter 3). Condensations of this type may also be used to produce two-dimensional macrocycles (Comba et al., 1986) - see [2.20], In such cases, it appears that imine intermediates are initially produced by condensation of the amines with formaldehyde as in the Curtis reaction. This is followed by attack of the conjugate base of the carbon acid on an imine carbon. The resulting bound (new) carbon acid then reacts with a second imine in a cis site to yield chelate ring formation. 

The interpretation and prediction of the relationship between the configuration of the newly formed chiral center and the configuration of the amine are usually based on steric differentiation of the two faces of the imine anion. Most imine anions that show high stereoselectivity incorporate a substituent which can hold the metal cation in a compact transition state by chelation. In the case of entry 2 in Table 1.3, for example, the observed enantioselectivity is rationalized on the basis of transition state L. 

Also, the failure to prepare the copper chelates of bisacetylacetonetrimethylenedi-imine and 4-butyliminopentane-2-one might be attributed to amine exchange, for a similar reason. The conclusion that amine exchange has occurred is reasonable, but there are reasons for doubting that this is the only explanation. 

The free carbonyl function of this ligand may undergo further condensation reactions. With amines RNH2, products [PdLL l are obtained where both L and L may be N,N -bonded chelates (42 R = Me, Et, Pr, Bu)264,265 or L may be bonded through N(imine) and 0(oxime) (43 R = H).266 Similar linkage isomerism is seen for other oximato ligands of this type.267... 

The most important reaction of this type is the formation of imine bonds and Schiff bases. For example, salicylaldehyde and a variety of primary amines undergo reaction to yield the related imines, which can be used as ligands in the formation of metal complexes. However, it is often more desirable to prepare such metal complexes directly by reaction of the amine and the aldehyde in the presence of the metal ion, rather than preform the imine.113 As shown in Scheme 31, imine formation is a reversible process and isolation of the metal complex results from its stability, which in turn controls the equilibrium. It is possible, and quite likely, that prior coordination of the salicylaldehyde to the metal ion results in activation of the carbonyl carbon to amine nucleophilic attack. But it would be impossible for a precoordinated amine to act as a nucleophile and consequently no kinetic template effect could be involved. Numerous macrocyclic chelate systems have been prepared by means of imine bond formation (see Section 61.1.2.1). In mechanistic terms, the whole multistep process could occur without any geometrical influence on the part of the metal ion, which could merely act to stabilize the macrocycle in complex formation. On the other hand,... 

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