Cyclopentadienyl complexes iron dimer

The generation of the precursors for cyclopentadienyl-silanol-functionalized iron complexes involves the formation of the corresponding iron anion in a first step [6]. 2a is obtained by reductive cleavage of the methoxysilyl-cyclopentadienyl-substituted iron dimer 1 with sodium amalgam in THF (Scheme 1). This reaction is restricted to alkoxysilyl-cyclopentadienyl-fiinctionalized iron anions because of the limited access to the corresponding Si-H-functionalized iron dimers. 

Treating pentacarbonyliron with dicyclopentadiene affords the dicarbonyl (ri -cyclopentadienyl)iron dimer [Cp(CO)2pe]2. Reduction of the latter with sodium amalgam provides the nucleophilic dicarbonyl(r -cyclopentadienyl)iron anion [Cp(CO)2Fe]. Allylic halides or tosylates can be reacted with this Fe(0) complex to afford ri -allyl-Fp-iron complexes (Fp = Fe(CO)2Cp, Scheme... 

A solution of sodium dicarbonyl(cyclopentadienyl)ferrate prepared from the dicarbonyl(T] -cyclopentadienyl)iron dimer [Cp(CO)2pe]2 (4.11 g, 11.6 mmol) and sodium amalgam (2%, 35.3 g) in tetrahydrofuran (80 mL) is added slowly at -78 °C to a solution of 4-bromo-2//-chromene-3-carbaldehyde (5.5 g, 23 mmol) in tetrahydrohiran (70 mL). The mixture is stirred at -78 °C for 1 h and then allowed to warm to room temperature over a period of 1 h. The solvent is evaporated in vacuo, and the residue is dissolved in diethyl ether/acetone (1 1) and subsequently purified by column chromatography on silica gel. With petroleum ether/diethyl ether (2 1) tetracarbonyl(dicyclopentadienyl)diiron is separated, whereas with diethyl ether/acetone (1 1) the alkenyl-Fp complex is obtained. The solvent is evaporated and the yellow-brown solid is dissolved in dichloromethane (200 mL), dried (magnesium sulfate), and the solution concentrated in vacuo to yield the q -alkenyl-Fp complex as a yellow-brown, amorphous solid 6.9 g (89%). ... 

The commercially available (tj5-cyclopentadienyl)iron dicarbonyl dimer 1 is the source of the carbonyl(//5-cyclopentadienyl)iron(L) moiety. Reductive or oxidative cleavage of 1 provides reactive monomeric species that may be converted into iron-acyl complexes as described in the following sections (see also Houben-Weyl, Vol. 13/9a, p208). 

Any interconversion in a sample may give rise to temperature-dependent NMR spectra. For example, the 13C NMR spectrum of dimeric cyclopentadienyl iron dicarbonyl is temperature dependent [114]. This was attributed to intermolecular exchanges of carbonyls and interconversion between cis and trans complexes. 

Heterometal alkoxide precursors, for ceramics, 12, 60-61 Heterometal chalcogenides, synthesis, 12, 62 Heterometal cubanes, as metal-organic precursor, 12, 39 Heterometallic alkenes, with platinum, 8, 639 Heterometallic alkynes, with platinum, models, 8, 650 Heterometallic clusters as heterogeneous catalyst precursors, 12, 767 in homogeneous catalysis, 12, 761 with Ni—M and Ni-C cr-bonded complexes, 8, 115 Heterometallic complexes with arene chromium carbonyls, 5, 259 bridged chromium isonitriles, 5, 274 with cyclopentadienyl hydride niobium moieties, 5, 72 with ruthenium—osmium, overview, 6, 1045—1116 with tungsten carbonyls, 5, 702 Heterometallic dimers, palladium complexes, 8, 210 Heterometallic iron-containing compounds cluster compounds, 6, 331 dinuclear compounds, 6, 319 overview, 6, 319-352... 

The reaction of 1,2,3-triphenylcyclopropenylium ion 28 with sodium dicarbonyl(// -cyclopen-tadienyl)ferrate afforded the tr-complex, dicarbonyl(f -cyclopentadienyl)(l,2,3-triphenylcy-cloprop-2-enyl)iron (29), whose structure was determined by X-ray crystallography." Complex 29 was transformed into the original cyclopropenylium ion or its dimer by various reagents."... 

Ruthenium.— The oxidative addition of quinones to d and to metal centres is well documented. Now the oxidative addition of u-quinones to the d complex RuCl2(PPh3)3 has been reported. The reactions of ruthenium and iron cyclopentadienyl carbonyl dimers with azobenzene are described later (see manganese and rhenium). 

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