Imines organometallics

The addition of organometallic agents to aldimines and ketimines provides a useful route to substituted amines, although this reaction is sensitive to imine/organometallic substitution. Along with addition, competitive enolization, reduction and bimolecular reduction (coupling) reactions are also possible. 

FI catalysts are a class ol phenoxy-imine organometallic complexes pioneered by Fujita e/a/. ... 

Bell and Hall have incorporated an organometallic unit into a crown by using the ferrocenyl unit as part of the ring or as a third strand. The unit is incorporated either as the 1,1 -diformylferrocene or the corresponding acid. In the former case, the bis-imine is prepared and reduced to give the saturated crown (see structure 24). In the latter case, the acid is converted into its corresponding chloride and thence into the diamide by reaction with a diamine. Diborane reduction affords the saturated amino-crown. Structure 24 could be prepared by either of these methods but the dialdehyde approach was reported to be poor compared to the amide approach which afforded the product in ca. 60% yield . 

Similarly, 1-alkylpyrroles, indoles, furans, thiophenes [60], a-picoline [61], enols, malonates [76], and organometallic compounds [56, 62] react with acyl imines of trifluoropyruvates to give derivatives of a-trifluoromethyl a-amino acids... 

Reaction of Nitriles with Organometallic Reagents Grignard reagents add to a nitrile to give an intermediate imine anion that is hydrolyzed by addition of water to yield a ketone. 

The addition of organometallic reagents to the C —N double bond of imines 1 provides an attractive route to amines 21 2. However, due to the poor electrophilici ty of imines, this method is often plagued by competitive reactions ... 

Addition of Grignard and organolithium reagents to imines 2. derived from enantiomerically pure (S)-valinol (1), provides a-substituted phenethylamines 3 in moderate to good yield and excellent diastereoselectivity (in each case only one diastereomer can be detected by NMR)15. By appropriate selection of imine and organometallic reagent both diastereomeric amines are accessible (see also refs 16 and 17). 

For diastereoselective addition of organometallic agents to imines attached to arene tricar-bonylchromium or ferrocenyl moieties, see refs 26 28 and Section 1.4.1.1.2.2. 

The enantioselective addition of organometallic reagents to, V-(trimethylsilyl)benzaldehyde imine (1) in the presence of enantiomerically pure modifiers has been investigated. The best result is obtained with butyllithium (the corresponding Grignard reagent affords both lower yield and selectivity, 1 fails to react with diethylzinc) and two equivalents of the enantiomerically pure diol 2 in diethyl ether. It should be noted that the choice of the solvent is crucial for the stereoselectivity of the reaction1 2 3 5 7 8 9. 

Addition of organometallics to hydrazones provides hydrazines1, which can be converted to the corresponding amines by hydrogenolysis. Hydrazones can therefore be regarded as masked imine derivatives of ammonia. This methodology has been utilized successfully for numerous stereoselective syntheses of amines and amine derivatives2-23. 

The diastercosclectivity in the reaction of a-silylallenic organometallics with imines has been studied... 

Scheme 12 (-)-Sparteine-mediated addition of a-amino organometallic reagents to imines...

Organocerium reagents also show excellent reactivity toward nitriles and imines,205 and organocerium compounds were found to be the preferred organometallic reagent for addition to hydrazones in an enantioselective synthesis of amines.206... 

Among titanium compounds, many sit on the border of being organometallic/coordination compounds. One which is of interest in relation to the enhancing effects of F (see Section 9.5.5.2) is the titanium fluoride complex (52), which is highly active for the hydrosilylation of imines (Scheme 33).143... 

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