Gold -alkyne complex

Gold(I) complexes of the type [AuCl(PPh3)ra] (n= 1, 2) or [Au(N03)(PPh3)] show an excellent performance towards oxidative addition carbonylation or aromatic amines to form corresponding carbamates, and also towards the carbonilation of aliphatic amines to produce either alkylureas or formamides.2552,2553 Cationic gold(I) compounds of the type [AuL]+ where L = phosphine, phosphite, or arsine are excellent catalysts for the addition of alcohols to alkynes.2554... 

Late transition metal-catalyzed processes also proved to be very useful tools for formation of the C-O bond of the 1,3-oxazine ring from the corresponding alkynes. In the presence of 1-5 mol% of a cationic gold(l) complex, A -BOC-protected alkynylamines 450 were converted to 6-alkylidene-l,3-oxazin-2-ones 451 under very mild conditions (Equation 49) <2006JOC5023>. 

Indenyl ethers were synthesized via intramolecular carboalkoxylation of alkynes. In this process, a benzylic ether group played a nucleophile role to capture a vinyl gold intermediate obtained by alkyne activation. The first catalytic system tested by Toste and Dube in this study was a mixture of [AuClPPh3] and AgBF4. However, the moderate yield prompted them to research the use of more electrophilic gold(I) complexes such as [AuP(p-CF3-C6H4)3]BF4, which increased the yield of cydized products by 70% [107]. 

A gold monohydride species was also suggested in the report by Ito and Sawamura et al. on the dehydrogenative silylation of alcohols by HSiEt3 and a diphosphine gold(I) complex. Reaction was selective for the silylation of hydroxy groups in the presence of alkyl halides, ketones, aldehydes, alkenes, alkynes and other functional groups [193]. 

Selective activation of alkyne functions of enynes to give products either of alkoxy-cyclization or of exo- and endo-skeletal rearrangement can be achieved by using alkynophilic cationic gold(I) complexes. The endocyclic cyclization catalysed by gold(I) proceeds via a mechanism different from those known for Pd(II), Hg(II), or Rh(I) catalysts.118... 

Similar to the abovementioned silver nhc coordination compounds, carbene chemistry has also been dominant in the field of gold organometallic chemistry. Noteworthy examples include a Au(PPh3)-compound derived from tetraaminoallene, that can be rationalised in terms of a dicarbene with ylide character and which, owing to the electron-rich character of the central carbon atom, offers the potential for dimetallation products.108 Non-activated allenes and alkynes have been found by Lavallo to be readily aminated by cationic carbene gold complexes.109 For this purpose, a 2,6-diisopropylphenyl functionalized cyclic alkylaminocarbene gold(I) complex... 

Athene complexes of platinnm have been well established since the middle of the nineteenth centnry (see Zeise s Salt), bnt TT-complexes of gold were only discovered by Htittel in 1965, with alkyne complexes following in 1972. All of these complexes have very limited stability, and therefore their chemistry is still poorly developed, even today. 

Gold(l) complexes of alkenes and alkynes appear to play an important role as intermediates of the gold(l)-catalyzed addition of water, alcohols, carboxylic acids, or amines to these substrates. The elfect of this 7r-complexation (22) is superior to the performance of mercury(ll) in this type of reactions. " In a similar way, gold(III) salts have found applications in homogeneous catalysis. ... 

In a simplified form, the nucleophilic attack to the [AuL]+-alkyne complex gives trans-alkenyl-gold complexes as intermediates (equation 1). Although simple alkyne-Au(I) complexes are usually stable only at low temperatures,a few compounds of this type have been characterized. 

Alkene and alkyne r-complexes see Alkene Complexes and Alkyne Complexes are known both for Au and Au. They are prepared at low temperature from AuCl or AuCls with an excess of the alkene or alkyne in the absence of any other potential donor molecules. The products, for example, of the types (MeCH=CHMe)AuCl and MeC=CMe-(AuCl3)2, are generally of low stability, and the complexation is reversible in a vacuum or on heating. Representative examples have recently been structurally characterized.Strained cyclic alkenes and alkynes give the most stable products. Multiple coordination of monoalkenes or of dialkenes (like butadiene) is known, but information about the products is limited. Alkene coordination to neutral gold atoms has been studied by matrix-isolation techniques at very low temperature. The adduct (C2H4)Au appears to be stable only below 40 K. 

Nolan and coworkers applied cationic gold(l) complexes of N-heterocyclic carbenes at elevated temperatures in the catalytic hydration of terminal and internal alkynes at very low catalyst loadings of 1,000 ppm (0.1%) down to 10 ppm (0.001 %). The thermal stability of the gold(l) carbene complex appears to be critical to achieve those results [123] (Scheme 21b). Iron Iron(III) chloride catalyzes... 

Catalytic conversions of allenes are sometimes considered models for catalytic reactions of alkenes, even though allene reactivity is more closely comparable to that of alkynes rather than alkenes. The catalytic hydration of allenes was achieved by means of a cationic gold(I) complex with a carbene steering ligand, (IPr)AuCl/ AgOTf (5 mol%), in dioxane (rt, 4—9 h) in fair yield [180]. Attack of water is selective for the terminal carbons, whereas regioselectivity in nonsymmetric substrates is controlled by steric, electronic, and solvation factors. 

For alkynes (and in part, allenes), synthetically useful protocols for Markovnikov and anti-Markovnikov selective hydrations, hydroalkoxylations (mainly intramolecular), and hydrocarboxylations are available and find increasing applications in organic synthesis. In the past decade, the research focus on cationic gold(l) complexes has led to new additions to the catalysis toolbox. It can be predicted that a further refining of such tools for alkyne functionalization with respect to catalytic activity and functional group tolerance will take place. 

Synthesis of enantiomerically enriched secondary amines (168) with excellent ee values, through the tandem, intermolecular hydroamination with primary amines (166) /transfer hydrogenation of alkynes (167), using a the gold(I) complex-chiral phosphoric acid (127) protocol, has been developed by Che and Liu (Scheme 44). A wide variety of aryl, alkenyl, and aliphatic alkynes as well as anilines with different electronic properties were tolerated. 

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