Isocyanide ligands carbenes

The reaction of alkoxyarylcarbene complexes with alkynes mainly affords Dotz benzannulated [3C+2S+1C0] cycloadducts. However, uncommon reaction pathways of some alkoxyarylcarbene complexes in their reaction with alkynes leading to indene derivatives in a formal [3C+2S] cycloaddition process have been reported. For example, the reaction of methoxy(2,6-dimethylphenyl)chromium carbene complex with 1,2-diphenylacetylene at 100 °C gives rise to an unusual indene derivative where a sigmatropic 1,5-methyl shift is observed [60]. Moreover, a related (4-hydroxy-2,6-dimethylphenyl)carbene complex reacts in benzene at 100 °C with 3-hexyne to produce an indene derivative. However, the expected Dotz cycloadduct is obtained when the solvent is changed to acetonitrile [61] (Scheme 19). Also, Dotz et al. have shown that the introduction of an isocyanide ligand into the coordination sphere of the metal induces the preferential formation of indene derivatives [62]. 

The isocyanide ligand, CNR, is formally isolobal with a carbene ligand. Several studies have investigated iron(Ill) porphyrin isocyanide complexes which have the general formula [FeCPorKCNR) ]. However, these studies have mostly been concerned with spin state and spectroscopic properties rather than chemical transformations and will not be discussed in detail here. Crystallographic details are given for two of the complexes. " ... 

Cavell KJ, McGuinness DS (2007) Palladium complexes with carbonyl, isocyanide and carbene ligands. In Crabtree RH, Mingos DMP, Canty AJ (eds) Comprehensive organometallic chemistry 111. Elsevier, Amsterdam... 

Dixon, K. R. Dixon, A. C. Palladium Complexes with Carbonyl, Isocyanide and Carbene Ligands, In Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry II A review of the literature 1982-1994 Puddephatt, R. J. Ed., Elsevier, 1995, Vol. 9, p 193. 

Early work focused on compounds with open-chain carbenes generally synthesized in the coordination sphere of the gold atom, for example, by addition of amines or alcohols to isocyanide ligands in the corresponding gold complexes. Subsequent synthetic approaches have relied on the in situ deprotonation of onium salt precursors by a... 

The use of functionalized isocyanides containing both the isocyanide function and the nucleophile in the same molecule leads to complexes with heterocyclic carbene ligands via a 1,2-addition across the C=N triple bond. Complexes with functionalized isocyanide ligands can be generated in template reactions or a nucleophile functionalized isocyanide can be reacted directly with a suitable metal complex. 

Carbenes are speties with a divalent carbon atom with various substituents and a lone pair of electrons. Classic carbene gold complexes were synthesized in the coordination sphere of the gold atom, addition of amines or alcohols to the coordinated isocyanide ligands. N-Heterocyclic carbenes (Arduengo s carbenes)... 

N==Ca+—Aua which makes the isocyanide ligands susceptible to nucleophilic attack and has led to formation of carbene complexes, iminoalkyl complexes and catalytic conversion of isocyanides to formamidines using alkyl or aryl isocyanide complexes of gold(I).301,402 4(y7-409-415 A review of this significant work has been published.16... 

With monodentate carbenes, complexes containing one, two, or three of these ligands in the coordination sphere are known, and quantitative data on the reaction of amines to a coordinated isocyanide ligand have shown the addition to proceed by a stepwise mechanism through an intermediate... 

Hydrazine reacts with [Fe(CNMe)4]2+ to form the chelate (16) in which addition to two adjacent isocyanide ligands has taken place.321 Methylamine reacts322 in a related way to give (17), while reaction with ammonia results in the formation323 of a monodentate carbene complex (18). Methylation of [Fe(CN)2(phen)2] with Me2S04 yields [Fe(CNMe2)(phen)2],26 which reacts with hydrazine to give323 the tris chelate (19) in a similar fashion to the formation of (16). 

Alkylidenes have been prepared by reduction of alkyli-dynes, by C H oxidative addition from alkyls, and by treatment of unsaturated metal clusters with diazoalkanes. In most instances, the alkylidene adopts a /r2-h coordination mode. However, alkylidenes with heteroatom substituents may also be found in terminal coordination modes. The latter are typically prepared by the Fischer-type carbene route (see Fischer-type Carbene Complexes) (sequential addition of nucleophilic and electrophilic alkylating agents to carbonyl or isocyanide ligands), by condensation of metal fragments with mono- or dimetallic carbene complexes, or by C-H activation of alkylamines. These heteroatom substituted carbenes may also bind in a p3-ri mode, as in (12). 

A variety of 17 -bound carbonyl, isocyanide and carbene ligands as well as bound unsaturated hydrocarbon ligands n = 2-6) were shown to undergo facile attack of nucleophiles, radicals, or electrophiles to form new ligand frameworks. 

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