From metal carbene complexes

Formation of Oxygen Ylide from Metal Carbene Complexes and Subsequent Reactions 152... 

Formation of Nitrogen Ylide from Metal Carbene Complex and Subsequent Reactions 168... 

In the past 10 years, studies on the reaction of ylides generated from metal carbene complexes have witnessed tremendous progress. In particular, synthetic applications of the three most common reactions of ylides, namely [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement, [l,2]-shift, and 1,3-dipole cycloaddition, have gained considerable success to demonstrate... 

As already mentioned for rhodium carbene complexes, proof of the existence of electrophilic metal carbenoids relies on indirect evidence, and insight into the nature of intermediates is obtained mostly through reactivity-selectivity relationships and/or comparison with stable Fischer-type metal carbene complexes. A particularly puzzling point is the relevance of metallacyclobutanes as intermediates in cyclopropane formation. The subject is still a matter of debate in the literature. Even if some metallacyclobutanes have been shown to yield cyclopropanes by reductive elimination [15], the intermediacy of metallacyclobutanes in carbene transfer reactions is in most cases borne out neither by direct observation nor by clear-cut mechanistic studies and such a reaction pathway is probably not a general one. Formation of a metallacyclobu-tane requires coordination both of the olefin and of the carbene to the metal center. In many cases, all available evidence points to direct reaction of the metal carbenes with alkenes without prior olefin coordination. Further, it has been proposed that, at least in the context of rhodium carbenoid insertions into C-H bonds, partial release of free carbenes from metal carbene complexes occurs [16]. Of course this does not exclude the possibility that metallacyclobutanes play a pivotal role in some catalyst systems, especially in copper-and palladium-catalyzed reactions. 

Many other organometaUic compounds also react with carbonyl groups. Lithium alkyls and aryls add to the ester carbonyl group to give either an alcohol or an olefin. Lithium dimethyl cuprate has been used to prepare ketones from esters (41). Tebbe s reagent, Cp2TiCH2AlCl(CH2)2, where Cp = clyclopentadienyl, and other metal carbene complexes can convert the C=0 of esters to C=CR2 (42,43). 

The aim of this volume is to convince the reader that metal carbene complexes have made their way from organometallic curiosities to valuable - and in part unique - reagents for application in synthesis and catalysis. But it is for sure that this development over 4 decades is not the end of the story there is both a need and considerable potential for functional organometallics such as metal carbon multiple bond species which further offer exciting perspectives in selective synthesis and catalysis as well as in reactions applied to natural products and complex molecules required for chemical architectures and material science. 

The catalysts are metal-carbene complexes that react with the alkene to form a metal-locyclobutane intermediate.290 If the metallocyclobutane breaks down in the alternative path from its formation, an exchange of the double-bond components occurs. 

In spite of the fact that silver(i) X-heterocyclic carbene complexes were widely employed as carbene-transfer reagents for the synthesis of other transition metal carbene complexes, their synthesis could also be achieved by the reaction of silver salts with relatively more labile carbene metal complexes, albeit rare. Complexes 71a-71c were reported to be synthesized from the reaction of the corresponding pentacarbonyl(carbene)chromium(i) complexes with silver(i) hexafluorophosphate in CDC13 under inert atmosphere (Scheme 17).117... 

Enyne metathesis is unique and interesting in synthetic organic chemistry. Since it is difficult to control intermolecular enyne metathesis, this reaction is used as intramolecular enyne metathesis. There are two types of enyne metathesis one is caused by [2+2] cycloaddition of a multiple bond and transition metal carbene complex, and the other is an oxidative cyclization reaction caused by low-valent transition metals. In these cases, the alkyli-dene part migrates from alkene to alkyne carbon. Thus, this reaction is called an alkylidene migration reaction or a skeletal reorganization reaction. Many cyclized products having a diene moiety were obtained using intramolecular enyne metathesis. Very recently, intermolecular enyne metathesis has been developed between alkyne and ethylene as novel diene synthesis. 

Metal bromides, 4 322-330 Metal can food packaging, 18 37-39 Metal-carbene complexes, 26 926 Metal-carbon compounds, 4 648, 650 Metal-carbon eutectic fixed points, 24 454 Metal carbonyl catalysts, supported, 16 75 Metal carbonyl complexes, 16 73 Metal carbonyls, 15 570 16 58-78 bonding and structure of, 16 59-64 from carbon monoxide, 5 12 in catalysis, 16 72-75 economic aspects of, 16 71 health and safety aspects of, 16 71 heteronuclear, 16 69-71 high nuclearity, 16 66-69 high nuclearity carbonyl clusters, 16 64-66... 

More recently, the catalytic activities of a large pool of transition-metal carbene complexes have been screened by means of ion-molecule reactions in tandem-MS experiments. [156-158] Different from the concepts and methods discussed so far, the latter experiments are not designed to study the fundamentals of mass spectrometry. Instead, sophisticated methods of modem mass spectrometry are now employed to reveal the secrets of other complex chemical systems. 

In Figure 2.2 the most important synthetic approaches to alkoxy- or (acy-loxy)carbene complexes from non-carbene precursors are sketched. Some of these strategies can also be used to prepare amino- and thiocarbene complexes. These procedures will be discussed in detail in the following sections. In addition to the methods sketched in Figure 2.2, many complexes of this type have been prepared by chemical transformation of other heteroatom-substituted carbene complexes. Because of the high stability of most of these compounds, many different reactions can be used to modify the substituents at C without degrading the carbon-metal double bond. The generation of heteroatom-substituted carbene complexes from other carbene complexes will be discussed in Section 2.2. 

However, with substrates prone to form carbocations, complete hydride abstraction from the alkane, followed by electrophilic attack of the carbocation on the metal-bound, newly formed alkyl ligand might be a more realistic picture of this process (Figure 3.38). The regioselectivity of C-H insertion reactions of electrophilic transition metal carbene complexes also supports the idea of a carbocation-like transition state or intermediate. 

Ethers, sulfides, amines, carbonyl compounds, and imines are among the frequently encountered Lewis bases in the ylide formation from such metal carbene complex. The metal carbene in the ylide formation can be divided into stable Fisher carbene complex and unstable reactive metal carbene intermediates. The reaction of the former is thus stoichiometric and the latter is usually a transition metal complex-catalyzed reaction of a-diazocarbonyl compounds. The decomposition of a-diazocarbonyl compounds with catalytic transition metal complex has been the most widely used approach to generate reactive metal carbenes. For compressive reviews, see Refs 1,1a. 

The major reaction pathways for sulfonium ylide formation generated from a metal carbene complex and sulfide are [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement and [l,2]-shift, similar to those of the oxonium ylide formation. 

Transfer of a metal carbene moiety from a metal carbene complex to a heteroatom other than oxygen, sulfur, and nitrogen is possible. One such example is the report by Uemura and co-workers, who disclosed catalytic asymmetric reaction of ethyl diazoacetate with ( )-cinnamyl phenyl selenide 193 (Equation (30))." The reaction afforded 194 as a diastereomeric mixture (58 42). Using Rh2(5[Pg.173]

Carbenes and carbenoids have long been recognized as a highly reactive species and are frequently used as intermediates in organic synthesis. From a synthetic perspective, however, most of the carbenes are relatively short-lived and are too reactive to be controlled. Recently, metal-carbene complexes (or metaUocarbenes) were found to be easier to control and are nowadays widely used in organic synthesis . 

Fig. 15.20 Resonance forms for a transition metal carbene complex. Form (a) shows metal-carbon double bond character which results from donation of metal d electron density to an empty p orbital of carbon. Form (b) shows oxygen-carbon double bond character which results from donation of oxygen p electron density to an empty p orbital of carbon Form (W provides the dominant contribution.

An impressive series of carbene- and carbyne-bridged complexes of platinum have been formed by reaction of metal carbene complexes with a platinum complex (equation 141). These complexes have been verified by X-ray crystallography, and the synthetic method appears to be one of some generality. Among the complexes of this type formed from carbenes are ones having metal frameworks with Pt—W,409-413 Pt—Mn414-418 and Pt—Cr413,417 bonds. 

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