Diimine, preparation

Imines can be stereoselectively hy-drodimerized to 1,2-diamines with rac/ meso rahos of 0.9 to 1.1 similar to the cathodic coupling of carbonyl compounds to pinacols in an acidic medium [304]. With 4,6-dimethylpyrimid-2-one only the meso-diamine was obtained [305]. Electroreduction of diimines prepared from... 

The diimine prepared from 1,3-diaminopropane and benzaldehyde was reduced electrochemically using a lead cathode in an acidic medium to perhydro-frawj -2,3-diphenyl-l,4-diazepine (141) in 79 /i yield (Equation (8)) <9UOC3063>. This reaction complements the cyclopropane diimine cyclization to cis products discussed below. 

The racemic diimine prepared from 2-picolyl aldehyde and l,2-/r< / .r-cyclohexanediamine forms a dinuclear complex with four methyl ligands 19 on reaction with [PtMe2(/x-SMe2)]2." An NMR study shows conversion between the two isomers, anti,anti and syn,syn, in solution, caused by rotation of the C-N single bonds (Equation (10)). 

An interesting extrapolation of this synthesis deals with the preparation of the bispyridinium salt 62 from 1,2-phthalic dicarboxaldehyde and its subsequent reaction with primary amines (92BSB509).Tlie expected diimines 63 readily cyclize so that 2-aryl-l-arylimino-2,3-dihydro-l//-isoindoles 64 can be isolated in excellent yields (90-95%). Contrary to the reactions performed by employing the dialdehyde and amines directly, the syntheses involving the azinium salts do not produce those typical dark-colored complex mixtures of products (77JOC4217 85JHC449) (Scheme 20). 

Tliere are few examples for the preparation of imines from A-(l-haloalkyl)azinium halides and primary diamines. Among those reaetions reported, A-(ehlorophenylmethyl)pyridinium ehloride (33k), whieh has not been isolated, reaets with ethane-1,2-diamine and propane-1,3-diamine to afford the eorresponding diimines 72 (Seheme 22, 45-80%) (89JOC4808, 92BSB233). 

The 1.4-dihydro-l,4-diazocines prepared from iyn-benzene diimines (Section 1.4.1.2.) can be transformed to other derivatives by exchange of the substituents at nitrogen. For this purpose, the dipotassium salt of 1,4-diazocine is generated and then reacted with appropriate electrophiles. For example, reduction of the bistosyl derivative 3 gives a relatively stable dianion, a lOrr-electron system analogous to cyclooctatetraene dianion, which on protonation clearly gives the parent l,4-dihydro-l,4-diazocine (4, E = H) as the only product. 

M -Dialkyldiazacrown ethers and their precursors fcis(alkylamino) derivatives of tri- and tetraethylene glycols were prepared <96CCCC622>. New hydroxy-bearing dibenzo-azocrown ethers have been conveniently prepared utilizing l,3-Ws(2-formylphenoxy)-2-propanol and a diamine, followed by reduction of the intermediate diimine <96P1197>. Fluorescent photoinduced electron transfer sensor 5 with monoaza-18-crown-6 and guanidinium receptor units demonstrated a fluorescence with T -aminobutyric acid in a mixed... 

Diketimines can be prepared by condensation of 1,2-diketones with 2 equiv of an amine, or 1 equiv of a 1,2-diamine, by azeotropic removal of water. Either a chiral diketone or a chiral amine/diamine can be used in order to obtain a chiral diimine. In both cases, the use of 1,2-diamines is expected to provide better stereocontrol, because of the rigidity of the derived cyclic diimines. For example, the reaction of camphor 1,2-diketone 275 and racemic 1,2-diphenylethylenediamine (d,l)-26 gave the diimine 276 as a mixture of two diastereomers (Scheme 45) [138]. Reduction of 276 with sodium borohydride followed by hydrogenolysis of the N substituents afforded the camphordiamine, which was isolated as the dihydrochloride... 

Scott et al. [45] prepared diimine derivatives of 2,2 -diamino-6,6 -dimethyl-biphenyl (as structure 37 in Scheme 19) as copper chelates for the catalyzed cyclopropanation reaction. All catalysts were active in this reaction but enan-tioselectivities varied importantly according to the substitution pattern of the imine aryl group only ortho-substituted ligands (by chloride or methyl groups) led to products with measurable enantioselectivity for the model test reaction (up to 57% ee with 37). 

Chiral nitrogen chelates derived from sugars were prepared by Ruffo [48], introducing diimines and diamines functionalities on inexpensive monoses, a-D-glucose and a-D-mannose. 

The two-electron reduction of a-diimines to prepare the required starting materials for a subsequent condensation is usually achieved by reaction with lithium but other alkaline (Na) or alkaline earth (Mg) metals should be useful as well. The synthesis of the heterocycles 10 is either accomplished by direct metathesis of the formed metal enediamide with PC132 [19] or, alternatively, by quenching the diamide with a suitable acid to produce an enediamine or a-aminoimine, respectively, and subsequent base-induced condensation with PC13 or RPC12 [18, 20] (Scheme 3). 1,3-l )i-/e/t-butyl-2-chloro-1,3,2-diazaphospholene was also prepared from the reaction... 

Although 1,3,2-diazaphospholenium cations are usually prepared from neutral NHPs or 1,3,2-diazaphospholes via Lewis-acid induced substituent abstraction or A-alkylation, respectively (cf. Sect. 3.1.2), the group of Cowley was the first to describe a direct conversion of a-diimines into cationic heterocycles by means of a reaction that can be described as capture of a P(I) cation by diazabutadiene via [4+1] cycloaddition [31] (Scheme 4). The P(I) moiety is either generated by reduction of phosphorus trihalides with tin dichloride in the presence of the diimine [31] or, even more simply, by spontaneous disproportionation of phosphorus triiodide in the presence of the diimine [32], The reaction is of particular value as it provides a straightforward access to annulated heterocyclic ring systems. Thus, the tricyclic structure of 11 is readily assembled by addition of a P(I) moiety to an acenaphthene-diimine [31], and the pyrido-annulated cationic NHP 12 is generated by action of appropriate... 

The diimine palladium compounds are less active than their nickel analogs, producing highly branched (e.g., 100 branches per 1,000 carbons) PE. However, they may be used for the copolymerization of Q-olefins with polar co-monomers such as methyl acrylate.318,319 Cationic derivatives, such as (121), have been reported to initiate the living polymerization of ethylene at 5°C and 100-400 psi.320 The catalyst is long-lived under these conditions and monodisperse PE (Mw/Mn= 1.05-1.08) may be prepared with a linear increase in Mn vs. time. 

Several combinatorial approaches to the discovery of transition metal based catalysts for olefin polymerization have been described. In one study Brookhart-type polymer-bound Ni- and Pd-(l,2-diimine) complexes were prepared and used in ethylene polymerization (Scheme 3).60,61 A resin-bound diketone was condensed with 48 commercially available aminoarenes having different steric properties. The library was then split into 48 nickel and 48 palladium complexes by reaction with [NiBr2(dme)] and [PdClMe(COD)], respectively, all 96 pre-catalysts being spatially addressable. 

In contrast to Ni, alkylpalladium precursors can be easily prepared and isolated owing to their greater stability (Scheme 2). The monomethyl chloride adducts of formula (diimine)PdMeCl can be conveniently synthesized via diimine displacement of other weakly coordinating ligands, such as COD from Pd(COD)MeCl (COD = 1,5-cyclooctadiene) [44], or by in situ alkylation-complexation with tetramethyltin [52], The chloride ligand can then be cleanly abstracted by metathesis with NaBAF... 

Inspired by the design of metallocence catalysts, there has been research into the use of C2-symmetric Ni a-diimine catalysts for the preparation of polyolefins with stereoregularity. Such catalysts were shown to afford higher degrees of isotacticity in polypropylenes as compared to the standard C2v-symmetric catalysts, which afford mostly syndiotactic polymer [106], Coates and coworkers have studied... 

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