Hydrides reactions with alkynes

Digitoxigenin, structure of, 1097 Digitoxin, structure of, 989 Dihalide, alkynes from, 261 Dihedral angle, 94 Diiodomelhane. Simmons-Smith reaction with, 228-229 Diisobutylaluminum hydride, reaction with esters, 812 structure of, 699 Diisopropylamine, pK.d of, 923 1,3-Diketone, pfCa of, 852 Dimethyl disulfide, bond angles in, 20 structure of, 20 Dimethyl ether, electrostatic... 

Most of the reported reactions between tetranuclear clusters and alkynes involve mixed-metal cluster species. In these systems hydride and carbon monoxide substitution generally occurs [Eq. (11)] (194-200), although in some cases Me3NO has been used to activate the starting material (201, 202), and in still others cluster breakdown takes place even under mild reaction conditions (203). Rh4(CO)12 (204) and Ir4(CO)12 (205) retain their nuclearity in reactions with alkynes, but in the latter case the metal framework geometry is altered (Fig. 7). The use of [Ir4(CO)11Br] instead of Ir4(CO)12 in reactions with alkenes produces alkene-substituted tetranuclear complexes (189), as shown in Fig. 7. Few other homonuclear clusters have been found to react with alkynes (206-208). In the reaction between the tetranuclear cluster Cp2W2Ir2(CO) 0 and diphenylacetylene two independent processes... 

Organoaluminum reagents also undergo a variety of synthetically useful reactions with alkynes. The addition of dialkylaluminum hydrides to alkynes is a stereospecific cis addition. Vinylalanes that are capable of being converted to substituted alkenes by reaction with electrophilic reagents are formed. 

Iron porphyrins containing vinyl ligands have also been prepared by hydromet-allation of alkynes with Fe(TPP)CI and NaBH4 in toluene/methanol. Reactions with hex-2-yne and hex-3-yne are shown in Scheme 4. with the former giving two isomers. Insertion of an alkyne into an Fe(III) hydride intermediate, Fe(TPP)H, formed from Fe(TPP)Cl with NaBH4, has been proposed for these reactions. " In superficially similar chemistry, Fe(TPP)CI (present in 10 mol%) catalyzes the reduction of alkenes and alkynes with 200 mol% NaBH4 in anaerobic benzene/ethanol. For example, styrene is reduced to 2,3-diphenylbutane and ethylbenzene. Addition of a radical trap decreases the yield of the coupled product, 2,3-diphenylbutane. Both Fe(lll) and Fe(II) alkyls, Fe(TPP)CH(Me)Ph and [Fe(TPP)CH(Me)Ph] , were propo.sed as intermediates, but were not observed directly. ... 

The effect of stoichiometry, substituent, and temperature were investigated in reactions between the hydride HCo(tdppep) (19) and a number of alkynes.175 The cr-acetylide complex (20) and the (7-alkenyl (21) are formed from the stoichiometric reaction with ethyl propiolate. However, when a ten-fold excess of ethyl propiolate is used, the acetylide complex is formed quantitatively and one equivalent of alkyne is hydrogenated to alkene. Forcing conditions and a large excess of... 

To probe the reaction mechanism of the silane-mediated reaction, EtjSiD was substituted for PMHS in the cyclization of 1,6-enyne 34a.5 The mono-deuterated reductive cyclization product 34b was obtained as a single diastereomer. This result is consistent with entry of palladium into the catalytic cycle as the hydride derived from its reaction with acetic acid. Alkyne hydrometallation provides intermediate A-7, which upon cw-carbopalladation gives rise to cyclic intermediate B-6. Delivery of deuterium to the palladium center provides C-2, which upon reductive elimination provides the mono-deuterated product 34b, along with palladium(O) to close the catalytic cycle. The relative stereochemistry of 34b was not determined but was inferred on the basis of the aforementioned mechanism (Scheme 24). 

On the basis of these results we embarked on a systematic study on the synthesis of vinyl cations by intramolecular addition of transient silylium ions to C=C-triple bonds using alkynyl substituted disila alkanes 6 as precursors.(35-37) In a hydride transfer reaction with trityl cation the alkynes 6 are transformed into the reactive silylium ions 7. Under essentially nonHnucleophilic reaction conditions, i.e. in the presence of only weakly coordinating anions and using aromatic hydrocarbons as solvents, the preferred reaction channel for cations 7 is the intramolecular addition of the positively charged silicon atom to the C=C triple bond which results in the formation of vinyl cations 8-10 (Scheme 1). 

Not only the ring size but also the number of stabilising silyl groups in the -position is essential for the stability of the vinyl cations. Thus, reaction of alkyne 16 with tityl cation gave both stereoisomers of aikenylsilane 18 as the only products in 80-85% isolated yield (Scheme 3). This result suggests, that the generated / -silyl-substituted vinyl cation intermediate 17 did not persist under the applied reaction conditions but underwent a second hydride transfer with the formation of compound 18. 

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