Carbenes methoxy

Other examples of [2C+2S+1C0] cycloaddition reactions have been described by Herndon et al. by the use of chromium cyclopropyl(methoxy)carbenes. These complexes react with alkynes releasing ethene and forming cyclopenta-dienone derivatives, which evolve to cyclopentenone derivatives in the presence of chromium(O) and water [122] (Scheme 76). This reaction has been extended to intramolecular processes and also to the synthesis of some natural products [123]. These authors have also described another process involving a formal [2C+2S+1C0] cycloaddition reaction. Thus, the reaction of methyl and cyclo-propylcarbene complexes with phenylacetylene derivatives does not afford the expected benzannulated products, and several regioisomers of cyclopentenone derivatives are the only products isolated [124] (Scheme 76). 

The inherent plane of chirality in the metal carbene-modified cyclophane 45 was also tested in the benzannulation reaction as a source for stereoselectivity [48]. The racemic pentacarbonyl(4-[2.2]metacyclophanyl(methoxy)carbene)-chromium 45 reacts with 3,3-dimethyl-1-butyne to give a single diastereomer of naphthalenophane complex 46 in 50% yield the sterically less demanding 3-hexyne affords a 2 1 mixture of two diastereomers (Scheme 30). These moderate diastereomeric ratios indicate that [2.2]metacyclophanes do not serve as efficient chiral tools in the benzannulation reaction. 

Pentacarbonyl[phenyl(methoxy)carbene]chromium was prepared by the checkers in 75% yield according to the literature Hegedus, L. S. McGuire, M. A. Schultze, L. M. Org. Synth. 1987, 65,140. This material was stored under nitrogen at -30°C and purified immediately prior to use by filtration through a plug of Celite (hexane solvent). If the chromium carbene is purchased from Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., the submitters found it was only 65% pure based on capillary GLC analysis. 

SiMe3) in the presence of ethanol, i-propanol, or diphenylamine to account for the formation of alkoxy- and amino (alkenyl) allenylidene complexes [25] or of a buta-trienyl(methoxy)carbene complex in the presence of methanol [26]. Two representative examples are depicted in Scheme 3.12. 

The addition of a nudeophile to Cl as well as to C3 was observed in the reaction of the pentatetraenylidene complex [(C6Me6)Cl(PMe3) Ru=C=C=C=CPh2] generated in situ with MeOH. A mixture of two complexes derived from addition of methanol across the C1=C2 and the C3=C4 bond was obtained (Scheme 3.37) [29]. The 1,2 adduct, a butatrienyl(methoxy)carbene complex, rapidly reacted with water affording... 

In 1985, Dbtz et al. reported during a study on the reaction of Fischer-type carbene complexes with alkynes [10] that 2-oxacyclopentylidene chromium complex 24 was obtained as a side product. Thus, treatment ofmethyl(methoxy)carbene complex with 3-butynol at 70 °C in dibutyl ether gave the cyclic carbene complex 24 in 23% yield along with the desired metathesis product 23. The authors briefly commented that the cyclic carbene complex 24 might be obtained through the vinylidene complex 25, generated by the reaction of the alkyne with the liberated pentacarbonylchromium species (Scheme 5.7). 

Methyl)(methoxy)carbene]pentacarbonyl chromium(O) Chromium,... 

Simple alkenes, norbomene and styrene do not undergo cyclopropanation or insertion reactions with cyclopropyl(methoxy)carbene chromium pentacarbonyl complex. However, the conjugated 1-vinylcyclopentene is cyclopropanated under the reaction conditions at the terminal double bond, affording an isomeric mixture (trans cis = 40 60), in 66% yield (equation 72). 

The rearrangement exhibits some stereochemical preference for c/s-vinyl carbene complex (with respect to the metal) compared to the //ww-isomer. Thus, 2-methyl-2-m-vinyl cyclopropyl (methoxy) carbene chromium pentacarbonyl rearranges to 5-methyl-5-vinyl-2-methoxycyclopentenone approximately 4 times faster (THF, 52 °Q than the trans-isomer, which in turn rearranges faster than phenyl derivatives. This suggests that vinyl complexes undergo initial Cope-type rearrangement to form metallacycloheptadienes, which then rearrange to jt-allyl complexes. Subsequent CO insertion and reductive elimination leads to the vinylcyclopentenones (equation 89)150. 

Methyl) (methoxy)carbene] jentacarbonyl chromium(O) Chromium, pentacarbonyl(1-methoxyethylidene)-, (8) Chromium, pentacarbonyl(1-methoxyethylidene)-, (OC-6-21)-, (9) (20540-69-6)... 

Transient carbene (9) is expected to be a reaction intermediate in the transformation of butadiyne-linked triazene (8) to alkyne-linked bis-2//-indazolcs (10).18 Experimental data and DFT calculations support carbene (9) as an intermediate in this stepwise, non-synchronous coarctate reaction. Methoxy(methylthio)carbene (12) has been observed by UV photoelectron spectroscopy after gas-phase decomposition of oxadiazoline (11).19 The oxadiazoline (13) allows the generation of the acetoxy(methoxy)carbene (14) 20 -pjjg reaC jvj y 0f (he latter with isocyanates has been explored. Such reactions generally yield methyl (acetylamino)oxoacetates (15). DFT calculations permitted interpretation of the experimental data. 

The methoxyketene 297, coordinated to Cr carbonyl, is formed from methoxy-carbene easily by insertion of CO under irradiation [90]. An ester is formed by the reaction of ketene with alcohol. The aminocarbene complex 298 was prepared from benzamide and converted to phenylalanine ester 300 under irradiation of sunlight in alcohol via ketene 299 [91]. The eight-membered lactone 304 was prepared in high yield by the reaction of the alkyne 301 having the OH group in a tether with Cr carbene without irradiation. The vinylcarbene 302 is formed at first and converted to the vinylketene intermediate 303 as expected. The keto lactone 304 is formed from 303 by intramolecular reaction with the OH group and hydrolysis [92],... 

The chemistry of allyloxy(methoxy)carbene (55) depends on the temperature at which it is generated.55 At 110°C, the carbene homolytically dissociated yielding mainly allylic ester. At 50 °C, the carbene dimerized and underwent a Claisen rearrangement to (56). 

Thermolysis of 2-acetoxy-2-methoxy-5,5-dimethyl-A3-l,3,4-oxadiazoline affords acetoxy(methoxy) carbene.60 The thermal rearrangement of acetoxy(methoxy) car-bene to methyl pyruvate was studied by DFT at the B3PW91/6-31G(d,p) level. The conformation of the carbene was considered, as were competing fragmentations to radical pairs. The authors concluded that the reaction is a concerted 1,2-migration rather than a fragmentation-recombination process. 

Preparation of pentacarbonyl[phenyl(methoxy)carbene]chromium ... 

A. De Renzi, and E. O. Fischer, l,l-Dihalo-2-phenylvinyl Methyl Ethers from [Phenyl-(methoxy)carbene]pentacarbonylchromium(0) and Phenyl(trihalomethyl)mercurials, Inorg. Chim. Acta 8, 185-189 (1974). 

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