Palladium complexes cyclobutadiene

The palladium catalyst is essential in this reaction, as was shown in control experiments to make sure that this was not a direct nucleophilic addition of the amine to the electron-poor (regarding the low lying LUMO ) cyclobutadiene ligand. A series of amino-substituted cyclobutadiene complexes have been synthesized by this methodology [29]. 

Cyclobutadiene complexes can also be made by metal atom reactions. For example, the reaction of 3,4-dichloro-l,2,3,4-tetramethylcyclo-but-I-ene with nickel or palladium atoms (133) is... 

Other acetylenes also react with palladium chloride the products obtained do not for the most part appear to be cyclobutadiene complexes. 

Tetraphenylcyclobutadienepalladium and -nickel complexes and tetra-methylcyclobutadienenickel chloride react readily with nucleophilic reagents to give 7r-cyclobutenyl complexes 12, 30, 31, 65, 91), a reaction reminiscent of those described by Chatt et al. for diene-palladium and diene-platinum halide complexes (Section VI, F). Non-halogen-containing cyclobutadiene complexes, however, appear inert under similar conditions so that this reaction is very dependent on the other ligands present. Some similarity between cyclobutadiene-metal and diene-metal complexes appears to exist but how far the parallel can be drawn remains to be seen. The reactions are fully discussed in Section VI. 

While sodium cyclopentadienide attacks tetramethylcyclobutadiene-nickel chloride both at carbon and nickel (Section VI, F), the discovery of a novel cyclopentadienylation reaction which is in effect a ligand-transfer reaction involving attack at the metal only has allowed other types of cyclobutadiene complexes to be prepared. Thus on reaction of tetra-phenylcyclobutadienenickel and -palladium bromides (LXXXVI) with cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl bromide, the paramagnetic (cyclopentadi-enyl)(tetraphenylcyclobutadiene)nickel and palladium tetrabromoferrates (LXXXVII M=Ni, Pd) are obtained 64, <55). 

The first cyclobutadiene complexes were obtained either from alkynes (p. 246) or by reaction of cis-dichlorocyclobutenes with metal carbonyls. Many more derivatives were then prepared by transfer of the cyclobutadiene ligand from one transition metal to another, especially from palladium in [(Ph4C4)PdCl2]2. In their complexes cyclobutadienes adopt a planar square structure. 

Instances in which cyclobutadiene complexes are the major products from the reactions of acetylene complexes with additional alkyne are uncommon. These generally have been found to be significant products with sterically hindered alkynes and with palladium and platinum metals. For example, phenyl tert-butyl acetylene was converted to the corresponding cyclobutadiene complex (one isomer) upon treatment with (PhCN)2 PdCl2 (Hos-okawa and Moritani, 1969) [Eq. (71)]. With sterically less demanding tolane,... 

The reactions of the palladium-cyclobutadiene complexes with excess alkyne produced persubstituted cyclooctatetraenes in analogy to Reppe s catalytic cyclooctatetraene synthesis (Pollock and Maitlis, 1966 Reppe and Schweckendiek, 1948). Although the cyclobutadiene ligand can be transferred between metals [Eq. (76)] (Maitlis, 1971b), liberation of the ligand... 

Cycloalkenes, into if-allyl palladium complexes, 8, 363 Cycloalkenyl rings, metal complex conformational interconversions, 1, 414 Cycloalkynes, in nickel complexes, 8, 147 (Cyclobutadiene)cyclopentadienyl complexes, with cobalt, polymercuration, 2, 435 Cyclobutadienes... 

These have previously been obtained by electrophilic attack on ene-yl complexes [equation (a) Y = CH(C02Me)2, OMe ch = 1J-C5H5 diene = 1,5-cyclooctadiene]1 or by reaction of the compounds (diene)MBr2 with 57-C5H6Fe(CO)2Br (diene = 1,5-cyclooctadiene or 1,2,3,4-tetraphenyl-l,3-cyclobutadiene).2 An example of the former method is given in which the methoxy-cyclooctenyl derivative is used as the substrate and tetrafluoro-boric acid as the electrophile. The substrate is conveniently prepared and used without isolation, and in this way the reaction takes only a few hours, starting with dichloro(l,5-cycloocta-diene)palladium, prepared as described above. 

Finally, iodo-substituted (cyclobutadiene)Fe(CO)3 complexes can undergo palladium-catalyzed animations as well as Stille reactions using aUcynylstannanes (Scheme 61). An iterative process allowed the diiron dumbbell complex to be prepared alternatively, tetraethynyl complexes could be prepared directly from the tetraiodo(cyclobutadiene)Fe(CO)3 complex. " ... 

The X-ray study 170, 171) established a planar structure for the cyclobutadiene ring with C-—C distance equal to 1.46 A and angles of 90°. All the M—C distances are equivalent and close to those observed in ferrocene. The phenyl and methyl substituents are distorted from the ring plane and bent towards the metal atom. If one assumes that cyclobutadiene occupies two coordination sites then in the known tetraphenylcyclobutadiene-nickel and -palladium complexes the metal atom has a coordination number of 5. This suggests coordinative unsaturation for the metal and a priori one may expect an associative substitution for such complexes. 

It is well known that palladium chloride is an active catalyst for the cyclization of acetylene to form cyclobutadiene as well as benzene derivatives. In this reaction an intermediate complex was isolated which has a palladium carbon a-bond, the formation of which was explained by an insertion mechanism, not by concerted cyclotrimerization. When this complex obtained from butyne and palladium chloride was decomposed by various means, 5-vinyl-l,2,3,4,5-penta-methylcyclopentadiene and 5-(l-chlorovinyl)-l,2,3,4,5-pentamethylcyclopenta-diene were obtained in addition to hexamethylbenzene... 

The proton NMR spectra of some of these complexes have been determined. The spectrum of cyclobutadieneiron tricarbonyl (XVIII) shows a singlet at 6.09r and that of benzocyclobutadieneiron tricarbonyl (XIX) a singlet at 5.98r due to the cyclobutadiene protons, as well as a multiplet due to the aromatic protons at 3.05r (3S). The NMR spectra of monosubstituted cyclobutadieneiron tricarbonyls (see Appendix) show the equivalence of the two cyclobutadiene ring protons adjacent to the substituent. This implies that the four-membered ring must be square (39a). Tetramethylcyclo-butadienenickel chloride in water shows only a single resonance due to the 12 equivalent methyl protons (32). The spectra of the tetraphenylcyclo-butadiene-metal complexes are those due to phenyl protons and are usually complex. In the (cyclopentadienyl)(tetraphenylcyclobutadiene)nickel and -palladium bromides (XLIV), however, sharp single phenyl proton resonances are obtained at 2.39r (65). The reason for the apparent equivalence of all the phenyl protons in (XLIV) is not clear. 

We mentioned that by mixing vinyl epoxides and zerovalent palladium, the alcoholate formed was usually sufficiently basic to deprotonate the pronucleophile entity. In some cases, especially with ketones, low reactivity and yields were reported (Table To overcome the problem of the weak basicity of the alcoholate, silyl enol ethers, keto adds, or preformed lithium enolates have successfully been employed.f f" f f /3-Keto acids are masked enolates via the decarboxylation of the intermediary Tr-allylpalladium ]3-ketocarboxylate complexes. The main limitation of the use of keto adds as pronucleophiles seems to be their low reactivity toward the hindered cyclic vinyl epoxides. In these cases, the cationic n-allylpalladium complex undergoes ]S-elimination. Indeed, the reaction between benzoyl acetic acid and cyclobutadiene monoxide in the presence of Pd(PPh3>4 gives only the corresponding cyclopentanone and acetophenone as the... 

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