Dienes, conjugated Friedel-Crafts reaction

Conjugated dienes, upon complexation with metal carbonyl complexes, are activated for Friedel-Crafts acylation reaction at the akyhc position. Such reactions are increasingly being used in the stereoselective synthesis of acylated dienes. Friedel-Crafts acetylation of... 

The most notable chemistry of the biscylopen-tadienyls results from the aromaticity of the cyclopentadienyl rings. This is now far too extensively documented to be described in full but an outline of some of its manifestations is in Fig. 25.14. Ferrocene resists catalytic hydrogenation and does not undergo the typical reactions of conjugated dienes, such as the Diels-Alder reaction. Nor are direct nitration and halogenation possible because of oxidation to the ferricinium ion. However, Friedel-Crafts acylation as well as alkylation and metallation reactions, are readily effected. Indeed, electrophilic substitution of ferrocene occurs with such facility compared to, say, benzene (3 x 10 faster) that some explanation is called for. It has been suggested that. 

We see here a situation exactly analogous to one we have encountered several times before in 1,2- and 1,4-addition to conjugated dienes (Sec. 8.22), in Friedel-Crafts alkylation of toluene (Sec. 12.11), and in sulfonation of phenols (Problem 24.13, p. 803). At low temperatures the controlling factor is rate of reaction, at high temperatures, position of equilibrium,... 

Aliphatic Friedel-Crafts acylations. Reactions involving alkynylsilanes or tricarbonyliron-complexed dienes provide useful synthetic intermediates. A convenient access to conjugated amides and sulfonamides is the dematallative substitution" of alkenylstannanes with the proper electrophiles. 

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