Donor-adduct

Donor Adduct name CAS Registry Number Molecular formula... 

With the stable donor adducts of silylene complexes, valuable model compounds are now available for reactive intermediates which otherwise cannot be observed directly. For example, a side reaction occurring in the hydrosilation process [61 -63], is the dehydrogenative coupling of silanes to disilanes. This reaction could be explained in terms of a silylene transfer reaction with a coordinated silylene as the key intermediate. 

Recently, a variety of silylenes were generated and characterized by matrix isolation techniques. The observed loose donor adducts between silylenes and the matrix molecules (THF, CO) are only stable at very low temperatures. Melting of the matrix induces polymerization of the silylenes which proceeds through disilenes. However, 0->Si transfer reactions do not occur only in the case of 1-methyl-THF has an insertion of the silylene into the C —O bond been observed [155-158],... 

At this stage of the discussion it is obvious that stable donor adducts of silylene complexes show a modified silylene reactivity and can thus be considered as model compounds for otherwise inaccessible reactive intermediates. 

Another approach to a donor adduct of the methylene phosphenium cation is the addition of a phosphonium cation to the phosphaalkyne. The reaction of the protic cation [HPPhal + lCFaSOa] with CjoHuCP produced a white powder which was identified as the P-phosphonio-substituted phosphaalkene [74]. Alternatively to the elimination reaction the phosphaalkynes were protonated. C-protonation of adamantylphosphaacetylene and ferf-butylphosphaacetylene occurred in superacid media under formation of phosphavinyl cations. From these spirocyclic betaines by reaction of l-Ad-C=P (Ad = adamantyl) withB(OTf)3 a phosphavinyl cation could be detected [75]. 

According to quantum chemical calculations the cations P02 and PS2 should be linear [90,91 ] while in the corresponding 2-phosphallyl cation the central phosphorus atom is reluctant to sp-hybridisation [92] and is bent. Bis-donor adducts 34-36 were reported for a variety of these cations with dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP) (Scheme 21). 

The investigations included donor adducts with PO [93], 34,PS [+) [94], 35, and P(NMes ) +) [95], 36. While 34 was only formulated as an intermediate species, the other donor-acceptor complexes, 35 and 36, were characterized by X-ray investigations. To complete this series it may also be compared with bis(ylide)-substituted phosphonium halides [96], 37. For these cases the donors refer to... 

In this progress report we have reviewed the latest developments in the large area of cationic low-coordinated species and their coordination with Lewis donors. It is clear that these species are of a broad interest, in particular for catalysis. In some cases, e. g. the methylene phosphenium cation, the donor adducts also open new routes for synthesis. Regarding the mechanism for the diverse donor-addition reactions, the structural details are only poorly understood and need a better classification. In particular the variation of the Lewis-donor has to be established. Hitherto in most cases iV-donation is studied. It includes amines or pyridines. Obviously the effect of other donors, such as phosphines, thioethers needs to be studied as well. The siliconium cation for which these effects are better known could provide an understanding for further investigations within this field. 

With water, alcohols, amines and other compounds having a polar single bond, donor adducts react in the same way as free iminosilanes.I8-2425-33 For example24 ... 

We are at a loss to explain the discrepancy in the BF3 enthalpies of interaction with the sulfur donors. Steric effects may be operative, but this is far from the whole story for the BCI3 interaction is much larger than BF3 with these donors. Furthermore, using the tentative ( 113)3 parameters to estimate those of ( 2115)3 , we calculate an enthalpy from E and of 11.1 k.cal mole- for the BF3-P( 2H6)3 adduct compared to a measured value of 9.5 k.cal mole i. The authors report much difficulty with the sulfur donor system, but their error estimates could not possibly account for the difference between our calculated and the observed result. The behavior of ( 2115)35 compared to ( 2115)3 is clearly inconsistent with the behavior of these two donors toward ( 2H5)sAl where both enthalpies are correctly predicted with our parameters. It may be that the BF3-( 2115)25 system has an even lower equilibrium constant than reported and is completely dissociated over the temperature range studied. (This would require a very different entropy if the — AH predicted by E and were correct.) A slight impurity (reported to be less than 0.1%) or decomposition product could interact appreciably with BF3 and changing pressure contributions from this adduct with temperature could be attributed incorrectly to the sulfur donor adduct. The actual BF3-sulfur donor adduct would then be a very common example of an adduct which cannot be studied by the vapor pressure technique because it is completely dissociated at the temperatures at which one of the components has appreciable vapor pressure. We have examined the reaction of BF3 ( 2Hs) 2O with large excess of ( H2) 4S in dichloroethane solution at 25 ° and have found the equilibrium constant to be too low to be measured calorimetrically. 

For nitrogen-donor adducts, the selectivity was found to be dependent on the pAi value of the N-base . Among this class of additives pyridine or pyrazole, if present in appropriate concentration (12% mol), were reported to have a remarkable acceleration effect on the epoxidation rate, preventing decomposition and increasing the catalyst... 

Tanaka and Mika 42) suggest that the higher basicity of amine relative to epoxide makes the formation of an amine-proton donor adduct more likely, and they proposed the following equations as an alternative to Eqs. (3-12) and (3-13). 

Donor adducts of aluminum and gallium trihydride were the subject of considerable interest in the late 1960s and early 1970s.1 Thin-film deposition and microelectronic device fabrication has been the driving force for the recent resurgence of synthetic and theoretical interest in these adducts of alane and gallane.24 This is directly attributable to their utility as low-temperature, relatively stable precursors for both conventional and laser-assisted CVD,59 and has resulted in the commercial availability of at least one adduct of alane. The absence of direct metal-carbon bonds in adducts of metal hydrides can minimize the formation of deleterious carbonaceous material during applications of CVD techniques, in contrast to some metal alkyl species.10, 11... 

The Wiberg -type silenes like 92, available through salt elimination reactions from 93, react with nonenolisable aldehydes, ketones and the corresponding imino derivatives to give in a first step donor adducts 9459, which are then transformed to the [2 + 2] and [2 + 4] cycloadducts 95 and 96, respectively (equation 21)60-62. These cycloadducts may liberate the silene 92 upon heating and it can be trapped by suitable reagents. 

Silene Ph2Si=C(SiMe3)2 97 reacts with benzophenone and gives the [2 + 4] cycloproduct 98, probably via the donor adduct 99. 98 is, however, not a silene precursor but decomposes to the alkene 100 and diphenylsilanone 101 (equation 22)63 64. 

The attempted synthesis of 104 from its LiF adduct by salt elimination leads exclusively to the silene 104a65,66. 104a can be reacted with benzophenone to give the [2 + 4] and [2 + 2] cycloadducts 105 and 10667. The [2 + 4] cycloadduct of silene 104 cannot be obtained directly. The adducts 105 and 106, however, rearrange to the thermodynamically more stable 107, probably via the donor adducts 108, 109 and the free silenes 104 and 104a (equation 24). 

The silene 124 is probably formed as its THF adduct and can be trapped by, e.g., 1,3-dimethyl 2,3-butadiene to give a [4+2] cycloadduct. The attempt to liberate the silene 124 from its donor adduct results in the formation of a disilacyclobutane 125. This is ascribed to the prolonged life-time of the intermediate 359 formed by the methyl migration in the silene (equation 96), which allows for a hydrogen migration to take place. 

The formation of [2 + 2] cycloaddition products obviously occurs in a stepwise fashion via an adduct of the Lewis acid 92 and the Lewis base a=b. Kinetic data, investigation of isotope effects and the isolation of 92-donor adducts support this assumption. 

Silaacrylate 305 undergoes reactions with ketones165. The initial coordination of the ketones is reminiscent of the donor adducts to silenes. The products 520-522 are formed by an ene or a formal [2 + 2] cycloaddition reaction, depending on the substituents on the ketones (equation 177). 

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