Iron complexes azide

Copper catalyzes the decomposition of sulphonyl azides in benzene very slowly. When methanesulphonyl azide was boiled under reflux in benzene solution in the presence of an excess of freshly reduced copper powder, some decomposition occurred to give methanesulphonamide and azide was recovered 78>. Transition metal complexes have been found to exert a marked effect upon the yields of products and isomer ratios formed in the thermal decomposition of methanesulphonyl azide in methyl benzoate and in benzotrifluoride 36>. These results will be discussed in detail in the section on the properties of sulphonyl nitrenes and singlet and triplet behaviour. A sulphonyl nitrene-iron complex has recently been isolated 37> and more on this species will be reported soon. 

Narang, K. K. et al., Synth. React, lnorg. Met.-Org. Chem., 1996, 26(4), 573 The explosive properties of a series of 5 amminecobalt(III) azides were examined in detail. Compounds were hexaamminecobalt triazide, pentaammineazidocobalt diazide, cis- and fram-tetraamminediazidocobalt azide, triamminecobalt triazide [1], A variety of hydrazine complexed azides and chloroazides of divalent metals have been prepared. Those of iron, manganese and copper could not be isolated cobalt, nickel, cadmium and zinc gave products stable at room temperature but more or less explosive on heating [2],... 

Fair and Forsyth [235] found that incorporating iron complexes, later identified as [Fe(N3)], in lead azide gave rise to a broad absorption band in the visible region around 625 nm. When powders, doped and undoped, were photolyzed, the doped samples decomposed, but the undoped sample remained inert to 625 nm light. The results were interpreted in terms of a transition from the valence band to a state of iron in the band gap, thus creating hole states which through diffusion lead to decomposition. 

Various functional groups could also be introduced to unactivated afkenes by excess NaBH4 and Pehi 182-184 jq BIrL, and iron complexes coordinated by appropriate ligands mediated the Markovnikov olefin addition of radical traps such as sodium azide, potassium thiocyanate, air (O2), iV-acetylsulfanilyl chloride, potassium cyanate, tosyl cyanide, and TEMPO (eq 43). Ely-drofluorination of unactivated alkenes were also realized by this system with Selectfiuor . ... 

Despite this lack of catalytic activity, the use of iron compounds to reduce nitro compounds have been actively investigated, at least partly because iron is much cheaper than any of the other metals eommonly used in these reactions, and many stoichiometric reactions between an iron complex and a nitro, nitroso, azo-azoxy-, or isocyanate compound or an azide have been reported. Most of the reactions employ Fe3(CO)n, Fe(CO)s or [HFe3(CO)n] as starting materials. 

Recently, inexpensive and biocompatible iron complexes have attracted much attention as a transition-metal catalyst in organic synthesis. Iron porphyrins are easy to handle and now commercially available. Liu and Che reported that [Fe (F2o-tpp)Cl] (F2o-tpp = mejo-tetrakis(pentalluoro-phenyl)porphyrinato dianion) 6 is a highly reactive catalyst for aziridination of various alkenes with sulfonyl and aryl azides (Scheme 2.11) [16, 17]. In particular, aliphatic alkenes, which have lower reactivity than styrenes for aziridination, could also be applied in this reaction system. 

With the same tactic, a meta-stable 3-coordinate iron(III) imido complex was reported by Holland and coworkers [40]. Using the diketiminate-supported dinitrogen iron(I) complex [L T eNNFeU ] as a source of iron(I) precursor [L = 2,4-bis (2,6-diisopropylphenylimino)pent-3-yl], the addition of adamantyl azide (AdN3) in... 

Other iron-imido complexes have also been reported. Holland and coworkers reported the synthesis of the imidoiron(III) complex [L FeNAd] [40, 41]. This imidoiron(III) complex has not been isolated and was found to convert to a purple high-spin iron(III) complex. It has an S = 3/2 ground state from EPR measurement. Based on the results of QM/MM computations, [L EeNAd] is a three-coordinated complex with an Fe-N distance of 1.68 A and has a nearly linear Fe=N-C unit with Fe-N-C angle of 174.1°. Chirik and coworkers made use of liable ligands to prepare iron-imido complexes by treatment of C PDI)-Fe(N2)2 ( PDI = (2,6- Pr2CgH3N = CMe)2C5H3N) with a series of aryl azides [47]. 

Treatment via chelation has been observed for 2-acetylpyridine thiosemi-carbazone derivatives, which have been found to possess inhibitory activity for the RNA-polymerases of the influenza virus [133]. The iron(III) complexes were shown to be 3 to 6 times more active as inhibitors of partially purified ribonucleotide reductase (no added iron) compared to uncomplexed thiosemi-carbazone [128]. Raina and Srivastava [134] prepared and characterized low spin iron(III) complexes of 2-acetylpyridine thiosemicarbazone, [Fe(8-H)2A] (A = NO3, OH, Cl, N3, NCS or NO2), which were proposed as being seven-coordinate. However, all but the azide complex are 1 1 electrolytes in DMF and their solid ESR spectra are rhombic with the g-values being about 2.20,2.15 and 2.00. Of the six complexes, the azide ion seems to interact ihost strongly with the iron(III) center. 

Table 5.9 Experimental and calculated at the BP86ATZVP level frequencies and corresponding values of the iron normal mode composition factors of the most important vibrations that appear in the NIS signal of the Fe(III)-azide complex (taken from [101])...

Fig. 5.15 Schematic representation of the normal modes of the Fe(ni)-azide complex with the largest iron composition factors. The individual displacements of the Fe nucleus are depicted by a blue arrow. All vibrations except for V4 are characterized by a significant involvement of bond stretching and bending coordinates (red arrows and archlines), hi such a case, the length of the arrows and archlines roughly indicate the relative amplitude of bond stretching and bending, respectively. Internal coordinates vibrating in antiphase are denoted by inward and outward arrows respectively (taken from [63])...

High-valent iron also occurs in -nitrido bridged dimers with linear [Fe °-N=Fe" ]" and [Fe =N=Fe ] " cores [209, 210] (and references therein). Such compounds have been prepared first by thermolysis [247] or photolysis [248] of iron(III)-porphyrin complexes with an azide ligand, (N3). Mixed-valent iron-nitrido porphyrin dimers exhibit valence delocalization as can be inferred from the... 

Benzocyclobutene, when generated by oxidation of its iron tricarbonyl complex, can function as the dipolarophile in 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions with arylnitrile oxides (Scheme 113).177 Unfortunately the synthetic versatility of this type of process is limited because of the unreactivity of other 1,3-dipolar species such as phenyl azide, benzonitrile N-phenylimide, and a-(p-tolyl)benzylidenamine N-oxide.177... 

B.L. Stoddard, D. Ringe, and G.A. Petsko, The structure of iron superoxide dismutase from Pseudomonas ovalis complexed with the inhibitor azide. Protein Eng. 4, 113-119 (1990). 

HRP C contains two different types of metal center (i.e., iron(III) protoporphyrin IX-heme group and two calcium atoms) that are fundamental for the integrity of the enzyme. The heme group is attached to the enzyme at His 170 by a coordinate bond between the histidine side-chain NE2 atom and the heme iron atom. The second axial coordination site is unoccupied in the resting state of the enzyme but available to hydrogen peroxide during enzyme turnover. Small molecules such as carbon monoxide, cyanide, fluoride, and azide bind to the heme iron atom at this distal site, giving six-coordinated PX complexes. 

In 1987, Nitta reported the formation of an unexpected vinylketene complex from the reaction of an azido-substituted cyclopropene with diiron nonacarbonyl.104 They had previously investigated the chemical behavior of the complexed nitrene intermediates that result from the reaction of organic azides and iron carbonyls113 and were interested in replicating the thermal isomerization of 3-azido-l,2,3-triphenylcyclopropene (163) into 4,5,6-triphenyl-l,2,3-triazine using a metal carbonyl-promoted re-... 

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