Cyclopentadienyl carbonyl complexes reactions

Two commonly used synthetic methodologies for the synthesis of transition metal complexes with substituted cyclopentadienyl ligands are important. One is based on the functionalization at the ring periphery of Cp or Cp metal complexes and the other consists of the classical reaction of a suitable substituted cyclopentadienyl anion equivalent and a transition metal halide or carbonyl complex. However, a third strategy of creating a specifically substituted cyclopentadienyl ligand from smaller carbon units such as alkylidynes and alkynes within the coordination sphere is emerging and will probably find wider application [22]. 

Like zirconium, the first fully characterized carbonyl complex of hafnium was reported in 1976 by Thomas and Brown (6). This complex, bis(i7-cyclopentadienyl)dicarbonylhafnium (3) was prepared via the reductive carbonylation of Cp2HfCl2 using sodium amalgam. While the reaction proceeded to give a moderate yield of 3 (30%), this corresponded to only 60 mg of isolated product. 

The reaction of the transition-metal fragments with main group 15 elements directly has proven a very fruitful field for exploration. The methodology has been successful for a wide range of metal complexes. These fall generally into three basic types (1) reactions with cyclopentadienyl metal carbonyls, (2) reactions with homoleptic metal carbonyls and substituted derivatives, and (3) reactions with metal cations in the presence of a multi-dentate chelating ligand. 

Among the carbonylative cycloaddition reactions, the Pauson-Khand (P-K) reaction, in which an alkyne, an alkene, and carbon monoxide are condensed in a formal [2+2+1] cycloaddition to form cyclopentenones, has attracted considerable attention [3]. Significant progress in this reaction has been made in this decade. In the past, a stoichiometric amount of Co2(CO)8 was used as the source of CO. Various additive promoters, such as amines, amine N-oxides, phosphanes, ethers, and sulfides, have been developed thus far for a stoichiometric P-K reaction to proceed under milder reaction conditions. Other transition-metal carbonyl complexes, such as Fe(CO)4(acetone), W(CO)5(tetrahydrofuran), W(CO)5F, Cp2Mo2(CO)4, where Cp is cyclopentadienyl, and Mo(CO)6, are also used as the source of CO in place of Co2(CO)8. There has been significant interest in developing catalytic variants of the P-K reaction. Rautenstrauch et al. [4] reported the first catalytic P-K reaction in which alkenes are limited to reactive alkenes, such as ethylene and norbornene. Since 1994 when Jeong et al. [5] reported the first catalytic intramolecular P-K reaction, most attention has been focused on the modification of the cobalt catalytic system [3]. Recently, other transition-metal complexes, such as Ti [6], Rh [7], and Ir complexes [8], have been found to be active for intramolecular P-K reactions. 

Osmium forms a wide variety of alkyl and aryl complexes including homoleptic alkyl and aryl complexes and many complexes with ancillary carbonyl (see Carbonyl Complexes of the Transition Metals), cyclopentadienyl (see Cyclopenta-dienyl), arene (see Arene Complexes), and alkene ligands (see Alkene Complexes). It forms stronger bonds to carbon and other ligands than do the lighter elements of the triad. Because of this, most reactions of alkyl and aryl osmium complexes are slower than the reactions of the corresponding ruthenium complexes. However, because osmium is more stable in higher oxidation states, the oxidative addition (see Oxidative Addition) of C-H bonds is favored for osmium complexes. The rate of oxidative addition reactions decreases in the order Os > Ru Fe. 

Using a somewhat different approach, Fischer and Fichtel (85) have obtained a variety of ethylene-containing cationic complexes by reaction of TT-cyclopentadienyl carbonyl halides of Mo, W, and Fe with ethylene under pressure in the presence of aluminum chloride. The cations were isolated in the form of their salts with heavy anions such as PFe , B(C6H5)4, etc. Presumably the aluminum chloride serves as a halogen acceptor and activates a coordination site on the metal, facilitating coordination of ethylene. 

The low-valency cyclopentadienyl vanadium complexes are usually stabilized by carbon monoxide, and VCp(CO)4 is the most useful precursor to various low-valency organovanadium complexes. There are a number of synthetic routes to VCp(CO)4. One convenient method is to carry out the reaction between NaCp and VCl3 in THF in situ and then to carbonylate under 60 atm CO pressure at 120 °C [19]. Reduction of preformed vanadocene by potassium, and subsequent carbonylation also gives rise to VCp(CO)4 [20]. These methods, however, cannot be applied to alkyl-substituted cyclopentadienyl derivatives. It is necessary to treat alkyl-substituted cyclopentadiene... 

Reactions of 1 and 2 with cyclopentadienyl-carbonyl metal complexes... 

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