Metal-nitrogen bonding heterocycles

Tables 15 and 16 show the absorption maxima of some metal complexes of benzothiazolyl-substituted formazans 230 and 231.283 The wavelengths are metal ion dependent, making formazans useful reagents for the identification of specific metal ions or the simultaneous determination of two ions. The wavelengths are much longer than those of the formazan anion (Table 14). The general trend for electron-rich substituents is toward a larger shift this is to be expected as it tends to enhance the aromatic character of the ring and increase the covalent character of the metal — nitrogen bond. The sharpness of the absorption band has been attributed to coordination to the heterocyclic nitrogen as in 232.57S...

Figure 10-2. Although they are relatively rare in biology, organometallic compounds with metal-carbon bonds are important. An typical example is coenzyme B12. The cobalt is co-ordinated to a tetraazamacrocyclic ligand, and has one axial nitrogen donor heterocyclic ligand and one axial alkyl group. The figure illustrates only the core of the macrocycle and the axial groups.

Cazes et al. reported the Pd-catalyzed intermolecular hydroamination of substituted allenes using aliphatic amines in the presence of triethylammonium iodide leading to allylic amines [19]. In a way similar to the Pd-catalyzed hydrocarbona-tion reactions we reported that the hydroamination of allenes [20], enynes [21], methylenecyclopropanes [22], and cyclopropene [10] proceeds most probably via oxidative addition of an N-H bond under neutral or acidic conditions to give allylic amines. The presence of benzoic acid as an additive promotes the Pd-medi-ated inter- and intramolecular hydroamination of internal alkynes [23]. Intramolecular hydroamination has attracted more attention in recent years, because of its importance in the synthesis of a variety of nitrogen-containing heterocycles found in many biologically important compounds. The metal-catalyzed intramolecular hydroamination/cyclization of aminoalkenes, aminodienes, aminoallenes, and aminoalkynes has been abundantly documented [23]. 

The synthesis of aza-oxa crown ethers is best accomplished by making carbon-nitrogen bonds in the cyclisation step. Although the original syntheses operated under conditions of high dilution and involved the co-condensation of a diamine with a diacid chloride, these methods have been supplanted by the more versatile and convenient A-alkylation pathways involving toluene-sulfonamide or TV-benzyl intermediates. This chapter has focused on the metal-free synthesis of saturated aza-oxa crown ethers. There are a large number of examples of the synthesis of aromatic and heterocyclic aza-oxa crown ethers that involve the co-condensation of aldehydes and amines mediated by metal ions such as Pb2+ and Ba2+24,25 This in situ synthetic... 

Nitrogen heterocycles also form an extensive series of Cr complexes, adding a r-bonding contribntion to the metal-ligand bond. Complexes of this type inclnde those... 

Carrell, A. B., Shimoni, L, Carrell, C. J., Bock, C. W., Murray-Rust, R, and Glusker, J. P. The stereochemistry of the recognition of nitrogen-containing heterocycles by hydrogen bonding and by metal ions. Receptor 3, 57-76 (1993). 

Over the last 15 years, the homogeneous studies of HDS and HDN processes have been extremely useful to understand many mechanistic details regarding the coordination of sulfur and nitrogen heterocycles to metal centers, hydrogen transfer from metal to coordinated heterocycle, metal insertion into C-S and C-N bonds, and the desulfurization/denitrogenation paths. Recently, however, there has been a qualitative leap in molecular catalysis so that crossing the border-... 

The formation of ortho palladium products from a-aryl nitrogen derivatives and palladium salts is well known. Complexes formed from azobenzene, Schiff bases, tertiary benzylamines and oximes readily undergo insertion of CO into the metal-carbon bond to give, after work-up, a variety of heterocyclic compounds. Unfortunately, such reactions use expensive palladium salts in stoichiometric quantities. However, a number of related reactions have been shown to proceed in the presence of only catalytic quantities of palladium. Isoindolinones, for example, can be synthesized in good yield by reaction of o-bromoaminoalkylbenzenes with CO (100 C, 1 bar) in the presence of catalytic amounts of Pd(OAc)2, PPha and Bu"3N (equation 56). °... 

As described above in Section 1.4, intramolecular Heck-reactions proceed via. vy -al kene insertion into Pd—C bonds of intermediate (Ar)Pd(X) complexes. Although alkene insertions into late-transition metal—carbon bonds are common and well precedented, the analogous yn-insertion of alkenes into palladi um-heteroatom bonds of (R,N)Pd(X) complexes are quite rare. However, the known examples of these transformations (het-eroatom-Heck reactions) provide useful routes into an array of nitrogen heterocycles. 

Carbonylation with aUcenylation is one of the most important reactions in the application of intramolecular five-membered ring compounds. Heterocyclic ketones are synthesized by the insertion of carbon monoxide into a metal-carbon bond followed by demetalation reactions. Because metal-carbon or metal-nitrogen a-bonds are... 

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