Copper complexes ylide

Increased interest in the chemistry of ylides has produced X-ray structures for compounds 123 (R = OMe) (91T5277) and 138 (92H(34)1005), while possibilities of complex formation have led to structures for bidentate copper complex of 135 (94JCS(D)2651), monodentate copper complex of the 3-phenyltria-zolopyridine 139, monodentate (through N2) dinitrato ligand of 3-methyl-triazolopyridine 140 (99MI4), and dinitrato bidentate copper complex of... 

Scheme 102 IR spectroscopic evidence for ylide-copper complexes...

The synthesis of arsonium ylides 384 from diazocyclopentadienes 383 and tri-phenylarsine has been reexamined with respect to the efficiency of various copper-containing catalysts Whereas copper bronze gave only ca. 55 % of ylide, yields over 80% were provided by the use of Ou(II) complexes of p-diketonates derived from acetylacetone, 3-methylacetylacetone, benzoylacetone or dibenzoylmethane, as well as by bis[4-(phenylimino)-2-pentanonato-N,0-]copper(II) and Cu(II) acetate, all used in boiling benzene. The sterically more demanding complex bis(dipivaloyl-methanato)copper(II) as well as dichlorodipyridinecopper(II) proved less efficient. CopperfTI) tartrate, the dibenzo-14-crown 6/copper complex and furthermore the acetylacetonate complexes of Co, Ni, Pt and Zn were totally ineffective. When 383a was decomposed by Cu(acac)2 in the presence of pyridine or thioanisole. 

The oldest syntheses of chrysanthemates are those starting from 2,5-dimethyl-2,4-hexadiene (238). There have been more papers on the use of rhodium or antimony to catalyze the addition of diazoacetate and chiral copper complexes to create asymmetry during the addition (see Vol. 4, p. 482, Refs. 219-222). The problem with this route is to avoid the use of diazo compounds. An old synthesis of Corey and Jautelat used the ylide addition of a sulfurane to a suitable precursor (in this case a C3 unit was added to methyl 5-methyl-2,4-hexadienoate, 239), and a recent paper gives details about the addition of ethyl dimethylsulfuranylideneacetate to 2,5-dimethyl-4-hexen-3-one (240). This led exclusively to the tran -isomer 241, from which ethyl trans-chrysanthemate (185, R = Et) was made. Other ylide additions are mentioned below. 

A review of the methods for the generation of cyclic carbonyl ylides from intramolecular carbene additions has recently appeared [64]. This intermediate was first exploited as the An component for cycloaddition reactions by Ibata [65]. ort/io-Disubstituted carboalkoxy aryl diazoketones such as 54 were decomposed by copper complexes, generating six-membered ring carbonyl ylides. These transient intermediates underwent subsequent intermolecular cycloadditions in the presence of ethylenic and acetylenic reagents to give predominantly exo products containing the oxabicyclo[3.2.1] nucleus, Eq. 38. 

While this cyclopropanation strategy is usually limited to the use of diazo compounds there has been one recent report of the use of phenyliodonium ylides as the carbene source. In this example the ylide generated from methyl nitroacetate (9.13) and iodosobenzene reacts with styrenes and also 1,3-butadiene in the presence of the copper complex derived from bis-oxazoline (9.14). ... 

Sulfonium ylides R2S=CR 2 [672,673] and metallated sulfones [674-676] can cyclopropanate simple alkenes upon catalysis with copper and nickel complexes (Table 3.6). Because of the increased nucleophilicity and basicity of these ylides, compared with diazoalkanes, these reagents are prone to numerous side-reactions,... 

Interestingly, copper(I) salts also catalyze the cyclopropene-vinylcarbene isomerization [681]. In this case the transient carbene complexes again show electrophilic behavior, behavior similar to that of the complexes formed from copper(I) salts and diazoalkanes or sulfonium ylides. 

Carbonyl ylides can be viewed as an adduct between a carbonyl group and a carbene and, in fact, some ylides have been prepared this way (see above). The application of carbonyl ylides to the synthesis of complex natural products has been greatly advanced by the finding that stabilized carbenoids can be generated by the decomposition of ot-diazocarbonyl compounds with copper and rhodium complexes. The metallocarbenoids formed by this method are highly electrophilic on carbon and readily add nucleophiles such as the oxygen of many carbonyl derivatives to form carbonyl ylides. This type of reaction is in fact quite old with the first report being the addition of diazomalonate and benzaldehyde (33,34). 

The reaction of a-diazocarbonyl compounds with nitriles produces 1,3-oxazoles under thermal (362,363) and photochemical (363) conditions. Catalysis by Lewis acids (364,365), or copper salts (366), and rhodium complexes (367) is usually much more effective. This latter transformation can be regarded as a formal [3 + 2] cycloaddition of the ketocarbene dipole across the C=N bond. More than likely, the reaction occurs in a stepwise manner. A nitrilium ylide (319) (Scheme 8.79) that undergoes 1,5-cyclization to form the 1,3-oxazole ring has been proposed as the key intermediate. 

More recently, Naidu and West have utilized a ring expansion reaction of spiro azetidinium ylide 167 in the synthesis of pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Spiro azetidinium ylide 167 is generated through a Cu(acac)2-catalyzed intramolecular reaction of a copper carbene complex with a pendant amino moiety. Subsequent [l,2]-shift gives fused bicyclic products 168 and 169 as a diastereomeric mixture. Each diastereomer was further converted to naturally occurring pyrrolizidines ( )-turneforcidine and ( )-platynecine, respectively (Scheme 18). ... 

In addition to copper and rhodium catalysts commonly used in the generation of metal carbene complexes, other transition metals have also been explored in the diazo decomposition and subsequent ylide generation.Che and co-workers have recently studied ruthenium porphyrin-catalyzed diazo decomposition and demonstrated a three-component coupling reaction of a-diazo ester with a series of iV-benzylidene imines and alkenes to form functionalized pyrrolidines in excellent diastereoselectivities (Scheme 20). ... 

The biosynthesis of the cyclopropane ring in natural products can occur through transfer of a methylene group from an ylide derived from S-adenosyl methionine to an unactivated olefin such as an oleic ester [468] via a copper(i) carbcne complex [469]. 

This activation process can be assumed to be the initial step in the formation of dinuclear copper(II) acetylide complexes, as first proposed by Bohlmann and coworkers 40 years ago (Scheme 6) [10f]. Deprotonated alkyne units 11 (or the corresponding JT-complexes 10) generated therein, stepwise displace the negatively charged counter ions of copper(II) salt dimers (12). The dinuclear copper(II) acet-ylide complex which finally results (14) collapses to the coupled product under reductive elimination of copper(I). The existence of higher-order copper acetylide... 

This evidence is based on IR-spectroscopic measurements on the copper-ylide complex prepared by two independent routes. First, sulfonium salt 417 was made by alkylation of dimethyl siflfide 416 with bromide 415. The... 

The C-S bond of a sulfonium ylide can be cleaved thermally, photochemically, or by transition-metal catalysis, however, a number of acyl-substituted sulfonium ylides are not decomposed thermally at 70-80 C or catalytically with copper(II) sulfate (40-80°C). The so-formed oxocarbene (or metal complexes thereof) can, in principle, undergo 1,2-addition to... 

The triacylcyclopropanes, which are, formally speaking, trimers of the ylidic C, unit are rather common in sulfonium ylide reactions (see Houben-Weyl, Vol. Ell, p 1414). Several mechanistic pathways leading to these products may apply,and depending on the decomposition mode for the sulfonium ylide, individual mechanistic steps may be different. The overall picture of the photochemical or copper-catalyzed decomposition, however, can be described as follows. The sulfonium ylide 4 is decomposed to give an oxocarbene 5 or a related copper carbene complex 6. These short-lived intermediates react with another sulfonium ylide molecule to form an 1,2-diacylethene 7 which most likely combines with the sulfonium ylide and yields the triacylcyclopropane in a Michael addition/ring-closure sequence. 

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