Electrophiles metallacyclic

The platinum(0) complex [Pt(PhNO)(PPh3)2] reacts with C02 to afford the metallacyclic nitroso species [Pt 0N(Ph)C(0)0 (PPh3)2] (60), the first example of insertion of C02 into a Pt—N bond.186 Other unsaturated carbon compounds such as CS2 and electrophilic alkenes and alkynes react similarly. The diradical peril uoro-/V,/V -dimethylethane-l,2-bis(amino-oxyl) reacts readily by oxidative addition to the platinum(0) precursor Pt(PPh3)4 to afford the corresponding platinum(lI)-nitroso complex containing a seven-membered chelate ring (61). The resulting complex is stable in air for several days at room temperature.187... 

Metallacycle Formation Involving Electrophilic Carbene Addition to a Benzene Ring of the PPh3 Ligand... 

For very electrophilic carbene ligands bound to a metal center which also has coordinated an aromatic phosphine ligand,there is the possibility of the following intramolecular substitution reaction leading to a metallacycle ... 

The a-osmiumdiazo compound 91 decomposes in a thermal reaction to yield the metallacyclic complex 93 (130). This resembles the electrophilic carbene insertion reaction forming OsCl(CO)2(PPh2C6H4CHCl) (PPh3) (77) (see Section V,D,2), and we suggest that a similar insertion reaction of an electrophilic, cationic osmium carbyne 92 is the key step in this transformation. An X-ray structure determination has confirmed the formulation of 93. 

A study of the reactions of butadiene, isoprene, or allene coordinated to nickel in a metallacycle, with carbonylic compounds, has been reported by Baker (example 11, Table IV). In the presence of phosphines, these metallacycles adopt a cr-allyl structure on one end and a ir-allyl structure on the other, as mentioned in Section II,A,1. The former is mainly attacked by aldehydes or electrophilic reagents in general, the latter by nucleophiles (C—H acids, see Table I, or amines, see Table IX). 

Alkynyl enals cyclize on treatment with a stoichiometric amount of Ni(COD)2/TMEDA complex to give nickel enolates such as 193,436>436a These metallacycles react with electrophiles including methyl iodide and benzaldehyde to yield cyclopentenol derivatives (Scheme 91). 

An important finding is that all peroxo compounds with d° configuration of the TM center exhibit essentially the same epoxidation mechanism [51, 61, 67-72] which is also valid for organic peroxo compounds such as dioxiranes and peracids [73-79], The calculations revealed that direct nucleophilic attack of the olefin at an electrophilic peroxo oxygen center (via a TS of spiro structure) is preferred because of significantly lower activation barriers compared to the multi-step insertion mechanism [51, 61-67]. A recent computational study of epoxidation by Mo peroxo complexes showed that the metallacycle intermediate of the insertion mechanism leads to an aldehyde instead of an epoxide product [62],... 

Density functional calculations reveal that epoxidation of olefins by peroxo complexes with TM d° electronic configuration preferentially proceeds as direct attack of the nucleophilic olefin on an electrophilic peroxo oxygen center via a TS of spiro structure (Sharpless mechanism). For the insertion mechanism much higher activation barriers have been calculated. Moreover, decomposition of the five-membered metallacycle intermediate occurring in the insertion mechanism leads rather to an aldehyde than to an epoxide [63]. 

A number of transition metal complexes react with alkenes, alkynes and dienes to afford insertion products (see Volume 4, Part 3). A general problem is that the newly formed carbon-metal bond is usually quite reactive and can undergo a variety of transformations, such as -hydride elimination or another insertion reaction, before being trapped by an electrophile.200 Usually, a better stability and lower reactivity is observed if the first carbometallation step leads to a metallacycle. It is worthy to note that the carbometallation of perfluorinated alkenes and alkynes constitutes a large fraction of the substrates investigated with transition metal complexes.20015... 

The 14-electron species denoted here as Cp2M (M = Ti, Zr), generated from Group 4 metallocenes, mediate useful oxidative cyclizations of dienes 231 [103,104], enynes 233 [105] and diynes 235 [105,106] via the metallacycles 232, 234 and 236. These metallacycles are useful intermediates, which are hydrogenolysed, carbonylated, halogenated, attacked by electrophiles and converted to functionalized cyclic compounds such as 238 and 239 [107],... 

The reactions of protic acids and other electrophiles at remote Lewis basic functionality have been investigated as a pathway to both transformations and interconversions of carbonyl-substituted metallacycles. Irida-, pallada-, and platinacyclobutanones react reversibly with protic acid to yield 73-2-hydroxyallyl complexes (Equation 36), modulating between metallacyclobutane and hydroxyallyl structures (and further discussed in Section 2.12.9.3.5) <1993CC1039, 1995JOM143, 19970M1159>. 

Vinylidene osmium(O) (187) (Section II,B,3,g) reacts with sulfur, selenium, or copper chloride to give complexes 233 via electrophilic addition to the osmium-carbon bond (116) (Scheme 18). Complex 187 also reacts with benzoylazide to form the five-membered metallacycle 234 (Z) which isomerizes 234 (E) on heating in benzene (141). 

Electrophiles such as 02 and ketones with electron-withdrawing substituents commonly form metallacyclic oxidative addition products13 ... 

The molecular orbital analysis of the nucleophilic addition at the carbyne C atom infers the orbital control of the reaction since the C atom undergoing attack is the most negative one in the carbyne complex. [2 + 2] cycloadditions of [ReCp(CO)2(CPh)]+ with MeN=C(Ph)H, t-BuN=0, and ArN=NAr (Ar = aryl) but not with aUcenes or aUcynes, give the metallacycles. These reactions are driven by the nucleophilic attack of the lone pairs of the N atom at the electrophilic carbyne carbon atom. These metallacycles are... 

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