Insertion regiospecific

The bridging phosphide group in bimetallic transition metal complexes appeared to participate in a transformation, rather than behave as an inert spectator ligand. This is particularly obvious in homobimetallic iron and cobalt systems.Mays et al. showed that the reactions of iron-cobalt phosphido-bridged complex 25 with both symmetrical and unsymmetrical alkynes gave five-membered ferracycle-containing compounds, such as 26, in which a CO and an alkyne were inserted regiospecifically into a Co-P bond in 25. Subsequent decarbonylation led to a set of four-membered ferracyclic species 27-30 in low yields. 

The ij-arylpalladium bonds in these complexes are reactive and undergo insertion and substitution reactions, and the reactions offer useful methods for the regiospecific functionalization of the aromatic rings, although the reac-... 

Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) have significant potential in biotransformation applications because their ability to insert molecular oxygen regiospecifically and... 

The use of rhodium(II) acetate in carbenoid chemistry has also been extended to promoting intramolecular C/H insertion reactions of ketocarbenoids 277,280,280 ,). From the a-diazo-P-ketoester 305, highly functionalized cyclopentane 306 could thus be constructed in acceptable yields by regiospecific insertion into an unactivated... 

The orthometallation-carbonylation sequence illustrated in Scheme 155 affords a useful regiospecific methoxycarbonylation of the aryl ring of 4-chromanones.232 Unfortunately an extra step is incurred in the synthesis because of the unreactivity of the dimeric complexes (126) toward carbonyl insertion. 

Syndiospecific catalytic systems based on metallocenes are highly regioreg-ular. As a consequence, their stereoselectivity in possible regioirregular insertions has been experimentally investigated for propene copolymers only.78,79 However, an analysis of the stereoselectivity of possible secondary propene insertions on syndiospecific catalytic models based on -symmetric metallocenes is reported here, also due to its relevance to the rationalization of the dependence of regiospecificity on the type of stereospecificity (see Section 3.1.4.1).80... 

In this framework, the lower regiospecificity of the isospecific catalytic systems can be rationalized by assuming that the activation energy for the rotation of the coordinated monomer around 0o between the orientations suitable for the primary and secondary insertions (schematically shown by dotted lines in Figure 1.11) is in general lower than (or comparable to) the activation energy for the secondary insertion.80... 

Nonbonded energy interactions are able to rationalize not only the stereospecificities observed for different metallocene-based catalytic systems (isospecific, syndiospecific, hemi-isospecific, and with oscillating stereocontrol) but also the origin of particular stereodefects and their dependence on monomer concentration as well as stereostructures associated with regioirregular insertions. Nonbonded energy analysis also allowed to rationalize the dependence of regiospecificity on the type of stereospecificity of metallocene-based catalysts. 

The synthesis of analogous iminoacyl complexes by isonitrile insertion into linear alkyl-zirconocene chlorides is also known. In an overall regiospecific hydrocyanation of alkenes, iminoacyls 21 derived from tBuNC or Me3SiCN (as the Me3SiNC isomer) may be treated with I2 to rapidly generate an imidoyl iodide and subsequently the nitrile 22 (Scheme 3.6) [22], Less hindered iminoacyl complexes (e. g. R = Bu, Cy) may be hydrolyzed to afford aldehydes 23 [23]. 

Iron enneacarbonyl reacts smoothly with 1,1-dimethylsilacyclobutane to insert into the ring Si—C bond with complete regiospecificity (76JCS(D)910). The ferrosilacyclopentane (54) is thermally stable but reacts with HCl, and can also be prepared from 3-chIoropropyI-dimethylchlorosilane and Fe(CO)42. Carbonyl anions will substitute at silicon if this atom bears chlorine, and platinum will insert into the Si—H bond (Scheme 79) (72CC445, 78JOM( 144)317). 

Alkene insertion between the carbonyls of benzils (57) has been achieved by Michael addition catalysed by cyanide ion, as depicted in Scheme 3.55 a-Cyanocarbanions, from R1R2CHCN-BuLi in THF, have also been used to effect regiospecific ring opening of 3,3,3-trifluoropropene oxide to form CF3CHOHCH2CCNR1R2 diastereoisomers 56... 

The n-arylpalladium bonds in these complexes are reactive and undergo insertion and substitution reactions. The reactions offer useful methods for regiospecific functionalization of aromatic rings, although the reactions are difficult to make catalytic in most cases. Insertion of styrene to AA-dimcthylbcnzylaminc complex (180) to form the stilbene derivative 185 occurs smoothly at room temperature in AcOH [5]. The reaction has been extended to the functionalization of the dopamine analogue (A,A-dimethyl-2-arylethylamine) 187 via the six-membered o/Y/zo-palladated complex 186 [118]. 

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