1- - -iodide complex with tricarbonyl chromium

Optically active (—)-(8R)-methylcanadine was stereoselectively synthesized through selective monocomplexation of (—)-canadine (26) to chromium tricarbonyl (240). Heating of chromium hexacarbonyl with 26 effected regioselective complexation of the D ring to give the diastereomeric complexes, which were treated with n-butyllithium and trimethylsilyl chloride to give the 11-trimethylsilyl derivative 475 (Scheme 97). Methylation of this complex with methyl iodide gave stereoselectively the 8-methyl derivative 476 by preferential alkylation from the opposite face to the bulky chromium... 

Fluoro- and chloro-substituted tricarbonyl chromium arene complexes can be reductively coupled with ketones, in the presence of samarium iodide, to give tertiary alcohols (Scheme 109). A related reaction of a tethered alkoxyimine furnished a tricyclic compound (Scheme 110). Samarium also promotes the formation of a benzyhc ketyl... 

Hexacarbonylchromium(O) is readily attacked by chlorine giving CrCb, CO, and COCI2. Bromine and iodine do not attack Cr(CO)6 to any substantial extent at room temperature. The chromium tricarbonyl arene complexes, Cr(CO)3( -arene), are readily oxidized at room temperature by I2 to give Cris this is a conveitient preparative method for the anhydrous iodide. Although the oxidation of the tricarbonyl arene derivatives of chrontium with I2 does not show evidence of intermediate carbonyl complexes in oxidation states >0, the corresponding molybdenum(O) compounds give a series of carbonyl iodides of molybdenum(II), for example, the ionic [Mo(CO)3 ( ) -arene)]I. 

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