Complex-induced proximity metalation

Generally, the direct metallation of unactivated alkyl groups is not a synthetically useful reaction. However, under certain circumstances unactivated a-silylcarbanion formation has been reported. Treatment of orf/zo-silylated benzamides 149 with LDA gave an a-silyl carbanion 150, stabilized by a complex-induced proximity effect, which then underwent... 

Directed remote metalation (DreM) of biaryl amides and O-carbamates, conceptually based on the complex-induced proximity effect (CIPE) [15] provides, especially in view of their link to transition metal-catalyzed cross coupling regimens [16], general and versatile routes to fluorenones (16 —> 15, Scheme 4) [5,17] and biaryl amides (16 —> 17) [18] whose features are overriding Friedel-Crafts reactivity and yield enhancement in comparison to Suzuki-Miyaura coupling routes for highly hindered biaryls, respectively. Additional features of the O-carbamate DreM result is potential further DoM of 17 with appropriate phenol protection and cyclization to dibenzopyranones [18]. 

Comenic acid, bromination, 58, 297 Complex induced proximity effect, in heterocyclic metalations, 56, 160 Complexes, charge transfer tetraphenyl-4,4 -bithiopyranylidene with lj +, -,60, 78,91... 

The directed ortho metalation is fundamentally a complex-induced proximity effect (CIPE) in which the formation of a pre-metalation complex brings reactive groups into proximity for directed deprotonation. 

Deprotonation of ethers is another route to the a-alkoxy anions, but this pathway is often precluded by a kinetic barrier. Unless the a-carbon is benzylic [175], surmounting this barrier usually requires conditions that are not favorable to the survival of the anion [164]. Notable exceptions are the hindered aryl esters studied by Beak [176], Figure 3.13a, and the carbamates studied by Hoppe [177], shown in Figure 3.13b. In both cases, ec-butyllithium is required for deprotonation, and the carbonyls which direct the metalation by a complex-induced proximity effect [178] must be shielded from the base by large alkyl groups. Once formed, the organo-lithiums are chelated and stabilized by the heteroatom-induced dipole [179]. 

Mechanisms Complex-Induced Proximity Effect Process, Kinetically Enhanced Metalation, and Overriding Base Mechanism... 

The effects estimated for the aggregation based on Lewis acid function of Li are not realized clearly in the present stage. The importance of precomplexation of substrate ( complex-induced proximity effects ) has been proposed by Beak [63]. On the other hand, Schleyer advocates the term kinetically enhanced metalation, proposing that directing and activating effects are transition-state phenomena [64]. In either case, the Lewis acid function of Li plays critical roles. 

Three zirconium/cycloheptadienyne complexes (231a-c) have been prepared by /3-hydrogen elimination from a mixture of cycloheptatrienyl complexes 269-271 (Scheme 33) and have been used as intermediates for the preparation of a zirconaazulene.87 The alkyne complexes are formed to the exclusion of the allene isomer 268. This is believed to be due to the proximity of the /3-vinyl hydrogen that is a result of both the shorter double bond and its forced coplanarity with the metal. Allene formation from 269 might be induced by blocking the vinyl position (see Sections IV,B and IV,C), but this has not been tested. 

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