Dimetalated compounds electrophile

Metalametallations of alkenes and alkynes are useful methods for the construction of 1,2-dimetala-alkanes and 1,2-dimetala-l-alkenes, which react subsequently with suitable electrophiles to form substituted alkanes and alkenes. Metalametallation is carried out usually with bimetallic reagents of the type R Si-M R, or R Sn-M R in which M = B, Al, Mg, Cu, Zn, Si or Sn. Some metalametallations proceed without catalysts Cu, Ag and Pd compounds are good catalysts. The metalametallation with bimetallic compounds, such as Si-B, Si-Mg, Si-Al, Si-Zn, Si-Sn, Si-Si, Sn-Al or Sn—Sn bonds, catalysed by transition metal complexes, is explained by the oxidative addition of the bimetallic compounds to form 478, and insertion of alkene generates 479. Finally 1,2-dimetallic compounds 480 are formed by reductive elimination. Dimetallation of alkynes proceeds similarly to give 481. Dimetallation is syn addition. 

The alkenylindium compounds, obtained by the addition of benzyl- and allylindium to alkynes, couple with organic halides in the presence of a palladium catalyst to give the three-component coupling products (Scheme 99).286 1,3-Dibromopropene or 3-bromo-l-iodopropene reacts with indium to give diindiopropene 87a,b.147,148 This dimetallic reagent reacts with two different electrophiles successively carbonyl compounds and imines are allowed to react with 87 as the first electrophile to give vinylic indium intermediates 88, which react with... 

A series of dimetallic species featuring /i-77 7 -alkyne moieties have been prepared by reacting Gp Ni(/i-GO)3MGp (M = Mo, W) with phenylacetylene to produce the compounds 47 and the dimetallacyclopentenones 48. The latter reacts with electrophiles to generate 49, featuring a metallacyclobutadiene that is 77" -coordinated to the Ni center, as shown in Scheme... 

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