Manganese-imine complexes

Very active manganese dioxide (320 mg) is added to a solution of the quinone imine complex (63 mg, 0.152 mmol) in dichloromethane (3 mL) and the heterogeneous reaetion mixture is stirred for 2 h at room temperature. By addition of very active Mn02 (80 mg) and stirring for additional 2 h at room temperature, the reaction is completed. The mixture is filtered through a short path of silica gel/Celite that is subsequently washed with ethyl acetate. The solvent is removed in vacuo and the residue is subjected to flash chromatography (hexane/ethyl acetate 5 1) on silica gel to afford the carbazolone iron complex as yellow crystals mp > 165 °C (decomp.) 49 mg (78%). ... 

Electrophilic aromatic substitution of 708 with the iron-coordinated cation 602 afforded the iron-complex 714 quantitatively. The iron-mediated quinone imine cyclization of complex 714, by sequential application of two, differently activated, manganese dioxide reagents, provided the iron-coordinated 4b,8a-dihydrocarbazole-3-one 716. Demetalation of the iron complex 716 with concomitant... 

Electrophilic substitution at the arylamine 709 using the complex salt 602, provided the iron complex 725 quantitatively. Sequential, highly chemoselective oxidation of the iron complex 725 with two, differently activated, manganese dioxide reagents provided the tricarbonyliron-complexed 4b,8a-dihydrocarbazol-3-one (727) via the non-cyclized quinone imine 726. Demetalation of the tricarbonyliron-complexed 4b,8a-dihydrocarbazol-3-one (727), followed by selective O-methylation, provided hyellazole (245) (599,600) (Scheme 5.70). 

Electrophilic aromatic substitution of the arylamine 780a using the iron-complex salt 602 afforded the iron-complex 785. Oxidative cyclization of complex 785 in toluene at room temperature with very active manganese dioxide afforded carbazomycin A (260) in 25% yield, along with the tricarbonyliron-complexed 4b,8a-dihydro-3H-carbazol-3-one (786) (17% yield). The quinone imine 786 was also converted to carbazomycin A (260) by a sequence of demetalation and O-methylation (Scheme 5.86). The synthesis via the iron-mediated arylamine cyclization provides carbazomycin A (260) in two steps and 21% overall yield based on 602 (607-609) (Scheme 5.86). 

The total synthesis of carbazomycin D (263) was completed using the quinone imine cyclization route as described for the total synthesis of carbazomycin A (261) (see Scheme 5.86). Electrophilic substitution of the arylamine 780a by reaction with the complex salt 779 provided the iron complex 800. Using different grades of manganese dioxide, the oxidative cyclization of complex 800 was achieved in a two-step sequence to afford the tricarbonyliron complexes 801 (38%) and 802 (4%). By a subsequent proton-catalyzed isomerization, the 8-methoxy isomer 802 could be quantitatively transformed to the 6-methoxy isomer 801 due to the regio-directing effect of the 2-methoxy substituent of the intermediate cyclohexadienyl cation. Demetalation of complex 801 with trimethylamine N-oxide, followed by O-methylation of the intermediate 3-hydroxycarbazole derivative, provided carbazomycin D (263) (five steps and 23% overall yield based on 779) (611) (Scheme 5.91). 

Grigg and co-workers (383) found that chiral cobalt and manganese complexes are capable of inducing enantioselectivity in 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of azomethine ylides derived from arylidene imines of glycine (Scheme 12.91). This work was published in 1991 and is the first example of a metal-catalyzed asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. The reaction of the azomethine yhde 284a with methyl acrylate 285 required a stoichiometric amount of cobalt and 2 equiv of the chiral ephedrine ligand. Up to 96% ee was obtained for the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition product 286a. 

One of the earliest Schiff base macrocycles to exhibit a haemocyanine-like structure was the copper(II) perchlorate complex of 5.5 which binds readily to azide or hydroxide.8 The azide complex exhibits two square pyramidal copper binding domains with the basal plane occupied by one pyridyl nitrogen atom and two imine functionalities as well as a terminal azide ligand. The apices of the two pyramidal coordination polyhedra are linked by a single bridging azide anion. Continuing the biomimetic theme, manganese (II) cascade complexes of the unsymmetrical 5.6 have... 

Whilst the chiral manganese complexes can epoxidize alkenes with high enantioselectivity (> 90% e.e.), they are not particularly stable. This instability is probably due to the easily oxidizable imine and phenoxide ligands on the complex. Attempts are currently being made to immobilize Schiff-bases in order to increase their stability in a similar manner to the metalloporphyrins discussed earlier. 

Photolysis of diethylthallium bromide in cyclohexane is a radical process involving cleavage of the thallium-carbon bond, which yields ethylcyclohexane and dicyclohexyl, as well as other products. Photoelectron transfer from benzyltributylstannanes to 10-methylacridinium ion results in cleavage of the metal-carbon bond, to give the corresponding benzyl radicals, rather than benzyl cations. Photochemical homolysis of Re- and Ru-alkyl bonds in Re(alkyl)-(CO)3(diimine) and Ru(I)(alkyl)(CO)2(diimine) complexes has been studied by Fourier transform ESR. In related manganese complexes, Mn(R)(CO)3(di-imine), elimination of CO is the predominant pathway when R = methyl, but Mn-alkyl homolysis occurs when R = benzyl. 

A third pathway leads via the quinone imine intermediates 38 to 3-hydro-xycarbazoles 41 (mode C in Scheme 12) [97, 98, 108, 109]. Oxidation of the complexes 36 with manganese dioxide afforded the quinone imines 38, which on treatment with very active manganese dioxide undergo oxidative cyclization to the tricarbonyl(ri" -4b,8a-dihydrocarbazol-3-one)iron complexes 39. Demetalation of 39 with trimethylamine iV-oxide and subsequent aromatization lead to the 3-hydro-xycarbazoles 41. The isomerization providing the aromatic carbazole system is a... 

Unfortunately, ( PDI)Mn(THF)2 exhibited little activity for the hydrogenation of alkenes or [2 + 2] cyclization of dienes. In an attempt to synthesize an active bis(imino)pyridine manganese precatalyst, alternative reduction conditions were explored. Sodium amalgam reduction of ( PDI)MnCl2 in pentane yielded the red bis(chelate) complex ( PDI)2Mn. X-ray diffraction established a cis-divacant octahedral compound where one imine arm on each of the chelates is dissociated from the metal center. The metrical parameters from X-ray diffraction in conjunction with SQUID magnetic and EPR spectroscopic data established that the overall S = 3/2 compound is best described as a high-spin Mn(II) species (Sy = 5/2) with two bis(imino)pyridine radical anions. 

Vinylidene complexes of manganese and rhenium, generated in situ, undergo [2+2] cycloaddition reactions with imines to form 52. ... 

Desymmetrization of a meso-intermediate also held the key to enantio-selectivity in the approach to (—)-swainsonine (378) by Katsuki and his colleagues (Scheme 70). In this case, the (R,R)-(salen)manganese complex 524 mediated the enantioselective oxidation of the meso-pyrrolidine 525 with iodosylbenzene to the (2S)-hydroxypyrrolidine 526, which was further oxidized with pyridinium chlorochromate to yield lactam (—)-527 in an overall yield of 56% and an ee of 71%. Reaction with 4-chlorobutylmagne-sium bromide opened the lactam ring to give the chloroketone (+)-528, which underwent spontaneous cyclization to the cyclic imine 529 upon... 

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