Cobalt arene containing

In a forthcoming paper we discuss the formation of arenes containing nuclear bromine in our oxidation system however, this involves a transition metal catalyst other than cobalt. The latter apparently results in little or no nuclear substitution by bromine. 

Biaryls (8, 478-479). The details for oxidative dimerization of arenes containing electron-donating groups to biaryls with TTFA have been published. Lead tetraacetate and cobalt(III) fluoride are equally effective reagents.1... 

Reactions of cobalt and nickel atoms with toluene and other arenes yield condensates in which the metal is in a very reactive state (105). However, none of the products of reaction of these condensates with other ligands has contained the arene coordinated to the metal. It seems possible that the condensates contain ditoluenecobalt and ditoluene-nickel, but in these complexes (unlike the chromium or iron complexes) the two arene rings are probably not symmetrically bonded to the metals. 

Manganese, iron, cobalt, and nickel vapors do not give arene complexes with haloarenes. Interactions with hexafluorobenzene have been reported, but the explosive products are unlikely to be complexes containing planar C8F8 rings. The Ni-C8F8 cocondensate is a source of... 

Yamazaki s complex (Structure 5) contains two alkyne molecules linked together to form a five-membered metallacycle. Arene-solvated cobalt atoms, obtained by reacting cobalt vapor and arenes, have been used by Italian workers to promote the conversion of a,w-dialkynes and nitriles giving alkynyl-substituted pyridines [20]. -Tolueneiron(0) complexes have also been utilized for the co-cyclotrimerization of acetylene and alkyl cyanides or benzonitrile giving a-substituted pyridine derivatives. However, the catalytic transformation to the industrially important 2-vinylpyridine fails in this case acrylonitrile cannot be co-cyclotrimerized with acetylene at the iron catalyst [17]. 

Alkylcobalts form in stoichiometric reactions of pentacyanocobalt(III) hydride and alkenes. This reaction occurs both for halogenated alkenes such as tetrafluoroethylene and for alkenes that contain other electron-withdrawing groups such as carbonyls, nitriles and arenes as substituents (see Table 6) . The addition is regiospedfic, forming the more substituted alkylcobalt. Prior coordination of alkene to cobalt to form an alkene(hydrido)cobalt complex, an intermediate in hydrometalation reactions, is not important. This reaction is a radical process however, by NMR, additions of [HCo(CN)5 ] " to diastereomeric alkenes such as fumaric and maleic add salts lead to a cr-alkylcobalt by stereospecific cis addition of Co and H to the double bond . The overall reduction is not stereospecific. (r-Alkylcobalt bond formation proceeds by either a concerted addition or a rapid collapse of a radical cage. 

There are numerous examples of dendrimers and star polymers that contain metal coordination complexes based on pyridine ligands. There is also interest in the incorporation of more than one type of metal complex into these materials. Constable and coworkers have reported the synthesis of heptametallic complexes containing six peripheral ruthenium coordination complexes and a central iron or cobalt complex. Scheme 21 illustrates the reaction of 89 with either iron or cobalt complexes to produce the heptametallic dendrimer 90. A heptametallic star-shaped complex with a CpFe -coordinated arene as the core and ruthenium Aexa-pyridine complexes at the periphery has also been reported by Astruc. ... 

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