Iron substitution reactions

In addition to benzene and naphthalene derivatives, heteroaromatic compounds such as ferrocene[232, furan, thiophene, selenophene[233,234], and cyclobutadiene iron carbonyl complexpSS] react with alkenes to give vinyl heterocydes. The ease of the reaction of styrene with sub.stituted benzenes to give stilbene derivatives 260 increases in the order benzene < naphthalene < ferrocene < furan. The effect of substituents in this reaction is similar to that in the electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions[236]. 

Iron Porphyrins. Porphyrias (15—17) are aromatic cycHc compouads that coasist of four pyrrole units linked at the a-positions by methine carbons. The extended TT-systems of these compounds give rise to intense absorption bands in the uv/vis region of the spectmm. The most intense absorption, which is called the Soret band, falls neat 400 nm and has 10. The TT-system is also responsible for the notable ring current effect observed in H-nmr spectra, the preference for planar conformations, the prevalence of electrophilic substitution reactions, and the redox chemistry of these compounds. Porphyrins obtained from natural sources have a variety of peripheral substituents and substitution patterns. Two important types of synthetic porphyrins are the meso-tetraaryl porphyrins, such as 5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphine [917-23-7] (H2(TPP)) (7) and P-octaalkylporphyrins, such as 2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octaethylporphine [2683-82-1] (H2(OEP)) (8). Both types can be prepared by condensation of pyrroles and aldehydes (qv). 

Aminophenols are either made by reduction of nitrophenols or by substitution. Reduction is accompHshed with iron or hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst. Catalytic reduction is the method of choice for the production of 2- and 4-aminophenol (see Amines BY reduction). Electrolytic reduction is also under industrial consideration and substitution reactions provide the major source of 3-aminophenol. 

Oxidation-reduction and substitution reactions of iron sulphur centres. F. Armstrong, Adv. Inorg. Bioinorg. Mech., 1982,1, 65-120 (167). 

This is an example of a substitution reaction, a reaction in which one 1 ewis base takes the place of another. Here the CN ions drive out H20 molecules from the coordination sphere of the [Fe(H20)6]2+ complex and take their place. Replacement is less complete when certain other ions, such as Cl, are added to an iron(II) solution ... 

Arenes are unsaturated but, unlike the alkenes, they are not very reactive. Whereas alkenes commonly take part in addition reactions, arenes undergo predominantly substitution reactions, with the TT-bonds of the ring left intact. For example, bromine immediately adds to a double bond of an alkene but reacts with benzene only in the presence of a catalyst—typically, iron(III) bromide—and it does not affect the bonding in the ring. Instead, one of the bromine atoms replaces a hydrogen atom to give bromobenzene, C H Br ... 

Rosenblum M, Abbate FW (1966) The problem of metal atom participation in electrophilic substitution reactions of the iron group metallocenes. J Am Chem Soc 88 4178 184... 

With the iron atom in its most negative oxidation state of —2 this complex possesses nucleophilic properties and thus can be used in nucleophilic substitution reactions. As the iron atom in this complex formally has ten valence electrons, it is isoelectronic with Pd(0), which is a well-known catalyst in allylic substitution reactions [49]. 

Numerous chemical reactions have been carried out on ferrocene and its derivatives.317 The molecule behaves as an electron-rich aromatic system, and electrophilic substitution reactions occur readily. Reagents that are relatively strong oxidizing agents, such as the halogens, effect oxidation at iron and destroy the compound. 

In substitution reactions with acids, metals that can form two different ions in their compounds generally form the one with the lower charge. For example, iron can form Fe2+ and Fe3+. In its reaction with HCI, FeCI2 is formed. In contrast, in combination with the free element, the higher-charged ion is often formed if sufficient nonmetal is available. 

Another Ti-catalyzed domino reaction has been developed by Riick-Braun and coworkers [313] using 3-cyclopentadienyl (dicarbonyl)iron-substituted enals 6/4-129 and primary amines 6/4-130 to give dihydropyrrolones 6/4-131 (Scheme 6/4.32). 

Scheme 1. Iron-substituted Silanimines. Synthesis and Reactions with Alcohols, Amins and Acetone.

The work cited in sections 2.4 and 2.5 is representative of the SN1 substitution reactions of metal carbonyls. However, a much more extensive and detailed account has recently been published covering similar reactions of vanadium, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, rhenium, iron and nickel carbonyls in addition to those of manganese and cobalt2 9a. 

As you learned in Chapter 1, aromatic compounds do not react in the same way that compounds with double or triple bonds do. Benzene s stable ring does not usually accept the addition of other atoms. Instead, aromatic compounds undergo substitution reactions. A hydrogen atom or a functional group that is attached to the benzene ring may be replaced by a different functional group. Figure 2.6 shows two possible reactions for benzene. Notice that iron(III) bromide, FeBrs, is used as a catalyst in the substitution reaction. An addition reaction does not occur because the product of this reaction would be less stable than benzene. 

The carbazole-1,4-quinol alkaloids are also accessible by the iron-mediated arylamine cyclization (Scheme 14). Electrophilic substitution reaction of the arylamine 24 with the complex salts 6a and 6b affords the iron complexes 25. Protection to the acetates 26 and oxidative cyclization with very active manganese dioxide leads to the carbazoles 27, which are oxidized to the carbazole-... 

Several substitution reactions are catalyzed by iron ions (Galli and Bunnett 1984). A detailed preparative study was reported on the ferrous ion-initiated Sr I reactions of haloarenes with the... 

Substitution reactions of hexadentate diimine complexes of iron(II) are generally slow, thanks to the combination of the strongly binding diimine groups and the chelate effect, even when the ligand contains only two diimine units of the less strongly bonding py—CH=N— type k2(OH)... 

Oxygenation of alkanes with hydrogen peroxide in homogeneous reactions can be obtained also with Keggin-type iron-substituted polyoxometalates. Evidence against radical reactions has been offered. 

Examples of electrochemicaUy initiated metal ion substitution reactions have been described for the case of substitution of high-spin iron by cadmium ions [49, 50], high-spin iron by nickel, and silver by nickel [51] and high-spin iron ions [52]. The reasons for the proceeding of these electrochemicaUy initiated substitution reactions have been ascribed as well to the labilization of the cyanide ions in certain oxidation states of the metal ions of the involved PCMs. 

Pyridine is converted into perfluoropiperidine (82) in low yield by reaction with fluorine in the presence of cobalt trifluoride (50JCS1966) quinoline affords (83) under similar conditions (56JCS783). Perfluoropiperidine can be obtained electrochemically. This is useful, as it may be readily aromatized to perfluoropyridine by passing it over iron or nickel at ca. 600 °C (74HC(14-S2)407). Recently, pyridine has been treated with xenon difluoride to yield 2-fluoropyridine (35%), 3-fluoropyridine (20%) and 2,6-difluoropyridine (11%), but it is not likely that this is simply an electrophilic substitution reaction (76MI20500). 

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