Metal-heteroatom multiple bonds compounds

The hydrosilylation of carbon-heteroatom multiple bonds had received little attention until it was found in 1972 that Rh(PPh3)3Cl is an extremely effective catalyst for the hydrosilylation of carbonyl compounds. This is a new and unique reduction method since the resulting silicon-oxygen bond can easily be hydrolyzed. Other transition metal complexes including platinum, ruthenium , and rhodium also have good catalytic activity in the selective and asymmetric hydrosilylation of carbonyl compounds "". 

Oxo and imido compounds also react as nucleophiles with compounds containing polar C=X bonds, such as aldehydes, ketones, imines, and heterocumulenes. These reactions generally occur by a formal [2+2] cycloaddition process to generate a metala-cycle that breaks down to the more thermodynamically stable combination of products containing metal-ligand and carbon-heteroatom multiple bonds. Three examples of such reactions are shown in Equations 13.90-13.92. In the first two cases, the four-membered metallacycle was isolated or characterized by low-temp6rature NMR spectroscopy. ... 

Hydrocyanation is the addition of HCN across carbon-carbon or carbon-heteroatom multiple bonds to form products containing a new C-C bond. The majority of examples from organometallic chemistry involve the addition of HCN across carbon-carbon multiple bonds, as shown in Equations 16.2 and 16.3. Lewis acids and peptides have been used to catalyze the enantioselective addition of HCN to aldehydes and imines to form cyanohydrins and precursors to amino acids.The addition of HCN to unactivated olefins requires a catalyst because HCN is not sufficiently acidic to add directly to an olefin, and the C-H bond is strong enough to make additions by radical pathways challenging. However, a large number of soluble transition metal compounds catalyze the addition of HCN to alkenes and alkynes. 

Besides carbon — carbon multiple bonds, carbon —heteroatom double bonds (C = 0 C = NR) are also capable of undergoing metal-catalyzed [3 4- 2] cycloadditions. However, the simplest class of substrates, i.e. ketones and imines, respectively, could so far only be employed when 2-(trimethylsilylmethyl)prop-2-enyl acetate (1) was used as a TMM synthon. These reactions, which additionally require the presence of cocatalysts such as tin or indium compounds when ketones are used as substrates, lead to the selective formation of 3-methylenetetrahydrofurans and 3-methylenepyrrolidines (3, X = O, N), respectively. ... 

The participation of inner d orbitals in bonding may be observed with transition metal atoms of the third or higher rows of the periodic table. If these transition metal atoms or ions are coordinated by heteroatoms of ligands which are themselves connected by conjugated multiple bonds, one obtains chelate rings of different ring sizes which may form cyclic (pd)n systems. Some examples of such compounds with different coordinating heteroatoms are collected in Fig. 2. 

Transition metal catalyzed hetero-[2+2+2] cycloaddition of alkynes to compounds with a multiple carbon-heteroatom bond such as isocyanates, carbon dioxide, nitriles, aldehydes, and ketones leads to heterocyclic arenes and unsaturated heterocycles. These reactions are classified into two groups coupling of diynes with multiple carbon-heteroatom... 

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