Hydride complexes ligand substitutions

Iron hydride complexes can be synthesized by many routes. Some typical methods are listed in Scheme 2. Protonation of an anionic iron complex or substitution of hydride for one electron donor ligands, such as halides, affords hydride complexes. NaBH4 and L1A1H4 are generally used as the hydride source for the latter transformation. Oxidative addition of H2 and E-H to a low valent and unsaturated iron complex gives a hydride complex. Furthermore, p-hydride abstraction from an alkyl iron complex affords a hydride complex with olefin coordination. The last two reactions are frequently involved in catalytic cycles. 

The synthesis of [Ircp Cl(bpy-cd)]Cl, where bpy-cd is a /3-cyclo-dextrin attached at the 6 position to a bpy ligand, is detailed.138 The complexes [Ircp (diimine)X]+, X = C1, H, diimine = bpy, phen, are active catalysts for the light-driven water-gas-shift reaction.139 The hydride complexes luminesce at 77 K and room temperature, whereas the chloride complexes do not.140 The three-legged piano-stool arrangement of the ligands in [Ircp (bpy)Cl]+ and [Ircp (4,4 -COOFl-bpy)Cl]+ is confirmed by X-ray crystallography.141,142 Further mechanistic studies on the catalytic cycle shown in reaction Scheme 11 indicate that Cl- is substituted by CO and the rate-determining step involves loss of C02 and H+ to leave the Ir1 species, which readily binds Fl+ to yield the lrIH hydride species.143... 

However, considerable amounts of 2,3-dihydrofuran 50 and tetrahydro-furan-2-carbaldehyde 53 were present because of an isomerization process. The isomerization takes place simultaneously with the hydroformylation reaction. When the 2,5-dihydrofuran 46 reacts with the rhodium hydride complex, the 3-alkyl intermediate 48 is formed. This can evolve to the 2,3-dihydrofuran 50 via /3-hydride elimination reaction. This new substrate can also give both 2- and 3-alkyl intermediates 52 and 48, respectively. Although the formation of the 3-alkyl intermediate 48 is thermodynamically favored, the acylation occurs faster in the 2-alkyl intermediates 52. Regio-selectivity is therefore dominated by the rate of formation of the acyl complexes. The modification of the phosphorus ligand and the conditions of the reaction make it possible to control the regioselectivity and prepare the 2- or 3-substituted aldehyde as the major product [78]. As far as we know, only two... 

The results of reactivity studies on the [lrH2(NCMe)3(P Pr3)]BF4 complex have suggested that small incoming ligands (e.g. carbon monoxide or ethene) prefer coordination at the most labile position, trans to hydride, whereas bulkier ligands substitute at the less-hindered position, trans to phosphine [16]. 

Acetylene-vinylidene rearrangements of silylacetylene-iron carbonyl complexes have been observed,537 while iron-acetylide hydride complexes of the type [Fe(H)(C=CR)(dmpe)2], where dmpe=l,2-bis(dimethylphosphino)ethane, have been found to react with anions to afford substituted alkenyl complexes. It has been proposed538 that a likely reaction course for this latter rearrangement involves initial protonation of the cr-bound acetylide ligand at the carbon (I to the metal centre to form a vinylidene complex. Metal-to-carbon hydride migration in this vinylidene complex with attack by the anion would then lead to the neutral complex (see Scheme 106). A detailed mechanistic investigation has been carried out539 on the novel metathetical... 

Other methods for obtaining complexes of ethylene and other alkenes include ligand substitution reactions, reduction of a higher valent metal in the presence of an alkene, and synthesis from alkyl and related species [reductive elimination, of an allyl or hydride, for example hydride abstraction from alkyls protonation of sigma-allyls from epoxides (indirectly)] [74a],... 

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