Metal tautomerization

N-Metalated azomethine ylides generated from a-(alkylideneamino) esters can exist as tautomeric forms of the chelated ester enolate (Scheme 11.8). On the basis of the reliable stereochemical and regiochemical selectivities described below, it is clear that the N-metalated tautomeric contributor of these azomethine ylides is important. Simple extension of the above irreversible lithiation method to a-(alkylideneamino) esters is not very effective, and cycloadditions of the resulting lithiated ylides to a,(3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds are not always clean reactions. When the a-(alkylideneamino) esters bear a less bulky methyl ester moiety, or when a,(3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds are sterically less hindered, these species suffer from nucleophihc attack by the organometalhcs, or the metalated cycloadducts undergo further condensation reactions (81-85). 

Burda, J. V., Sponer, J., Leszczynski, J. (2000). The interactions of square platinum(II) complexes with guanine and adenine A quantum-chemical ab initio study of metalated tautomeric forms. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 5,178. 

In mordant dyes, phenols, naphthols, and enolizable carbonyl compounds, such as pyrazolones, are generally the couplers. As a rule, 2 1 metal complexes are formed ia the afterchroming process. A typical example of a mordant dye is Eriochrome Black T (18b) which is made from the important dyestuff iatermediate nitro-l,2,4-acid, 4-amiQO-3-hydroxy-7-nitro-l-naphthalenesulfonic acid [6259-63-8]. Eriochrome Red B [3618-63-1] (49) (Cl Mordant Red 7 Cl 18760) (1, 2,4-acid — l-phenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone) is another example. The equiUbrium of the two tautomeric forms depends on the nature of the solvent. 

Nitroso dyes are metal-complex derivatives of o-nitrosophenols or naphthols. Tautomerism is possible in the metal-free precursor between the nitrosohydroxy tautomer (76) and the quinoneoxime tautomer (77). 

There seems to have been no systematic study of tautomerism in the pyridopyridazines, but isolated observations in the pyrido[3,4-d]pyridazinedione (75BSF702, 69CPB2266) and pyrido[2,3-d]pyridazinedione (74JHC351) series have involved methylation studies. The pyrido[2,3-d]pyridazine-5,8-diones are believed to be enolized at the 8-position, from metal complexation results (67MI21500). 

From a general point of view, the tautomeric studies can be divided into 12 areas (Figure 20) depending on the migrating entity (proton or other groups, alkyl, acyl, metals. ..), the physical state of the study (solid, solution or gas phase) and the thermodynamic (equilibrium constants) or the kinetic (isomerization rates) approach. 

Benzimidazole, 2-amino-5-bromo-l-methyl-diazo coupling, 5, 429 Benzimidazole, 2-amino-6-bromo-1 -methyl-diazo coupling, 5, 429 Benzimidazole, 2-amino-1-ethyl-alkylation, 5, 438 Benzimidazole, 2-amino-1-methyl-acylation, 5, 438 bromination, 5, 429 tautomerism, 5, 368 Benzimidazole, 4-amino-2-methyl-diazo coupling, 5, 429 Benzimidazole, 2-aroyl-mass spectra, 5, 360 Benzimidazole, 1-aryl-metallation, 5, 448 reactions... 

H-1,2-Oxazine, 3,6-dihydro-6-(2-pyridyl)-mass spectra, 2, 529 2H-1,2-Oxazine, tetrahydro-synthesis, 2, 92 4H-l,2-Oxazine, 5,6-dihydro-pyrolysis, 3, 999 synthesis, 3, 1017 tautomerism, 3, 999 4H-1,2-Oxazine, 5,6-dihydro-3-methyl-metallation, 1, 484 4H-l,2-Oxazine, 5,6-dihydro-3-nitro-reactions, 3, 1000 6H-l,2-Oxazine, 3,5-diphenyl-stability, 3, 997 synthesis, 3, 1014... 

Pyridine, 6-cyano-l,2-dihydro-thermal dimerization, 2, 370 Pyridine, 2-cyanomethyl-tautomerism, 2, 159 Pyridine, 4-cyanomethyl-tautomerism, 2, 159 Pyridine, 2-cyano-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-metallation, 2, 387 Pyridine, 2,5-diacetyl-ipso substitution, 2, 301 Pyridine, 3,5-diacetyl-l,4-dihydro-Hantzsch synthesis, 2, 482 Pyridine, 4-dialkylamino-as acylation catalysts, 2, 34 Pyridine, 2,2-dialkyl-l,2-dihydro-... 

The formation of ethyl acetoacetate occurs, according- to Claisen, in four steps. The presence of a small quantity of alcohol gives lise to sodium ethylate, which forms an additive compound with ethyl acetate. The latter unites with a second molecule of ethyl acetate yielding the sodium salt of ethyl acetoacetate, and splitting off alcohol, which reacts with fresh metallic sodium. The sodium salt on acidifying passes into the tautomeric (ketonic) form of acetoacetic ester. 

The above value for R = H corresponds to an intermolecular process, either assisted by the solvent (in solution) or by other NH-pyrazole molecules (in solution and in the solid state) while metal migrations are probably intramolecular (the bigger the metal, the easier) and those of COR correspond (for R = NHR ) to a dissociation-recombination mechanism. Minkin [quoted in 96MI(15)339] suggests that a tautomeric process should... 

Additional sections of this chapter cover (1) tautomeric reactions of azoles and their derivatives in electronically excited states and (2) stabilization of certain tautomers in their metal complexes. 

Tautomeric rearrangements of transition-metal complexes with azole ligands are relatively scarce. The fluxional behavior of the rhodium complex 43 with a neutral 3,5-dimethylpyrazole was explained as the result of rapid processes of metallotropy and prototropy occurring simultaneously (Scheme 24) [74JOM(C)51],... 

VI. Stabilization of Unusual Tautomeric Forms of Azoles and Their Derivatives in Metal Coordination Compounds... 

Due to the relatively high acidities of their hydroxy groups, hydroxyazoles readily exchange their protons with metal ions, which leads to stabilization of metal derivatives of the hydroxy tautomeric forms in metal coordination compounds of 2(5)-oxoazoles [97UK434 98AHC(72)1]. A typical example is the mercury complex 361 [93JCS(D)1003]. 

Another type of tautomerization was observed in the complexation reaction of 5-oxo tautomers of pyrazolone with metal chlorides 362 (89ZNK 2966). 

Whereas vicinal hydroxy, mercapto, and hydroselenoaldimines of azoles strongly prefer the aminomethylene tautomeric form (Section II,E,2), their metal chelates 380 are characterized by.pronounced equalization of bond lengths within the chelate ring, which makes their structures similar to those expected for the aldimine tautomeric type. 

Stabilization of a metal-substituted derivative of a minor tautomeric form of the Ugand was reported for the complexes of mixed benzothiazo-line-benzimidazole (388 —> 389) (71ZOB1370 98POL381) and benzothia-zoline-pyridine ligands (390 —> 391/392) (Scheme 144) (77JA7704). 

Benzo-l,3-thiazole-2-azide reacts with metal salts to give a mixture of complexes of both possible tautomeric forms 397 and 398 (Scheme 147) (75UKZ1238). However, this conclusion was made only on analysis of the IR spectra of the reaction products and should not be considered final. 

More recently, activity in the held of the preparation of phthalocyanine-like compounds useful in material science concentrated on compounds containing only one triazole subunit (triazolophthalocyanines) 89 [94JCS(CC)1525 95ICA(230)153].These aromatic compounds (without or with metals in the cavity) present a problem of annular tautomerism of triazoles, but as yet it is known only that the NH is outside the cavity. 

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