Molybdenum double bonds

Very recently, synthesis and structure of molybdenum and tungsten complexes of the relatively unhindered disilene Si2Me4 were reported. The x-ray structure of 84 shows a metallacyclosilane structure with W — Si = 2.606(2) A and Si —Si = 2.260(3) A. The W — Si bond length is within the range of various estimates of the Si and W covalent radii and the Si —Si distance falls midway between the expected values for a single (2.35 A) and a double bond (2.14 A) (Fig. 13). 

Diene 265, substituted by a bulky silyl ether to prevent cycloaddition before the metathesis process, produced in the presence of catalyst C the undesired furanophane 266 with a (Z) double bond as the sole reaction product in high yield. The same compound was obtained with Schrock s molybdenum catalyst B, while first-generation catalyst A led even under very high dilution only to an isomeric mixture of dimerized products. The (Z)-configured furanophane 266 after desilylation did not, in accordance with earlier observations, produce any TADA product. On the other hand, dienone 267 furnished the desired macrocycle (E)-268, though as minor component in a 2 1 isomeric mixture with (Z)-268. Alcohol 269 derived from E-268 then underwent the projected TADA reaction selectively to produce cycloadduct 270 (70% conversion) in a reversible process after 3 days. The final Lewis acid-mediated conversion to 272 however did not occur, delivering anhydrochatancin 271 instead. 

Secondary amines can be added to certain nonactivated alkenes if palladium(II) complexes are used as catalysts The complexation lowers the electron density of the double bond, facilitating nucleophilic attack. Markovnikov orientation is observed and the addition is anti An intramolecular addition to an alkyne unit in the presence of a palladium compound, generated a tetrahydropyridine, and a related addition to an allene is known.Amines add to allenes in the presence of a catalytic amount of CuBr " or palladium compounds.Molybdenum complexes have also been used in the addition of aniline to alkenes. Reduction of nitro compounds in the presence of rhodium catalysts, in the presence of alkenes, CO and H2, leads to an amine unit adding to the alkene moiety. An intramolecular addition of an amine unit to an alkene to form a pyrrolidine was reported using a lanthanide reagent. 

Organic hydroperoxides have also been used for the oxidation of sulphoxides to sulphones. The reaction in neutral solution occurs at a reasonable rate in the presence of transition metal ion catalysts such as vanadium, molybdenum and titanium - , but does not occur in aqueous media . The usual reaction conditions involve dissolution of the sulphoxide in alcohols, ethers or benzene followed by dropwise addition of the hydroperoxide at temperatures of 50-80 °C. By this method dimethyl sulphoxide and methyl phenyl sulphoxide have been oxidized to the corresponding sulphone in greater than 90% yields . A similar method for the oxidation of sulphoxides has been patented . Unsaturated sulphoxides are oxidized to the sulphone without affecting the carbon-carbon double bonds. A further patent has also been obtained for the reaction of dimethyl sulphoxide with an organic hydroperoxide as shown in equation (19). 

I.3.4.2.6. Compounds with Unusual Double Bonds 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition of l-chloro-2-phenyl-2-trimetkylsilyl-l-phosphaethene with nitrile oxides, followed by elimination of Me SiCl, results in 3,5-diphenyl-l,4,2-oxaphosphazole 190 (356). Chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten pentacarbonyls of 3,5-diphenyl-).3-phosphinins react with nitrile oxides to give the corresponding 1,3-dipolar cycloadducts, at the P = C bond, see 191 (Ar = Ph, Mes) (357). 

In particular, ruthenium carbenes 1 are more sensitive to the substitution pattern of the alkenes than the molybdenum catalyst 24 [19]. While the latter reacts readily even with di- and tri-substituted double bonds and is apparently the only catalyst capable of producing tetrasubstituted cycloalkenes (cf. Table 2, en-... 

The ruthenium carbene catalysts 1 developed by Grubbs are distinguished by an exceptional tolerance towards polar functional groups [3]. Although generalizations are difficult and further experimental data are necessary in order to obtain a fully comprehensive picture, some trends may be deduced from the literature reports. Thus, many examples indicate that ethers, silyl ethers, acetals, esters, amides, carbamates, sulfonamides, silanes and various heterocyclic entities do not disturb. Moreover, ketones and even aldehyde functions are compatible, in contrast to reactions catalyzed by the molybdenum alkylidene complex 24 which is known to react with these groups under certain conditions [26]. Even unprotected alcohols and free carboxylic acids seem to be tolerated by 1. It should also be emphasized that the sensitivity of 1 toward the substitution pattern of alkenes outlined above usually leaves pre-existing di-, tri- and tetrasubstituted double bonds in the substrates unaffected. A nice example that illustrates many of these features is the clean dimerization of FK-506 45 to compound 46 reported by Schreiber et al. (Scheme 12) [27]. 

The total syntheses of these pepper alkaloids are not those of pyrrolidines but rather syntheses of their acid parts. Thus dihydrowisanidine (137) has been prepared by a series of reactions, the key step of which is the formation of the carbon-carbon double bond by a Wittig-Homer reaction (217, 218). Schemes 41 and 42 summarize two syntheses of okolasine from sesamolmethyl ether (279) of course, routes to okolasine also yield the corresponding piperidine alkaloid wisanine. Molybdenum-catalyzed elimination of allylic acetate (149) yielded (E,E)-diene ester 150 en route to trichonine (220) worthy of note is the use of an aluminum amide in the preparation of amide 143 from ester 150 (Scheme 43). 

Molybdenum catalysts such as 1 can also lead to the isomerization of alkenes [810-812]. Care is due in particular if enantiomerically pure olefins with the stereogenic center near the C-C double bond are to be metathesized, or when strained rings are to be formed [811]. 

An alternative method to make PAEs is the acyclic diyne metathesis (ADIMET) shown in Scheme 2. It is the reaction of a dipropynylarene with Mo(CO)6 and 4-chlorophenol or a similarly acidic phenol. The reaction is performed at elevated temperatures (130-150 °C) and works well for almost any hydrocarbon monomer. The reaction mixture probably forms a Schrock-type molybdenum carbyne intermediate as the active catalyst. Table 5 shows PAEs that have been prepared utilizing ADIMET with these in situ catalysts . Functional groups (with the exception of double bonds) are not well tolerated, but dialkyl PPEs are obtained with a high degree of polymerization. The progress in this field has been documented in several reviews (Table 1, entries 2-4). Recently, a second generation of ADIMET catalyst has been developed that allows... 

Asymmetric Synthesis Using a Chiral Molybdenum Catalyst In olefin metathesis, a double bond is cleaved and a double bond is formed. Thus, a chiral carbon center is not constructed in the reaction. To realize the asymmetric induction by ring-closing metathesis, there are two procedures a kinetic resolution and desym-metrization of symmetric prochiral triene. Various molybdenum complexes are synthesized in order to explore the viabihty of these approaches (Figure 6.2). 

Cyclopentene yields mixtures of ROMP and double-bond polymerization with some Ti and V initiators. ROMP occurs exclusively with molybdenum and tungsten initiators, as well as Re, Nb, and Ta initiators. The relative amounts of cis and trans structures vary with the initiator and temperature [Dall Asta et al., 1962 Pampus and Lehnert, 1974]. Metallocene initiators polymerize cyclopentene through the double bond, but the polymer structure consists of cis 1,3-placement (Coates, 2000 Kaminsky, 2001 Kelly et al., 1997]. 

The same ligands used successfully to synthesize stable Cjq complexes of molybdenum, tungsten and chromium have been used to synthesize the corresponding C7Q complexes. Some examples are M(CO)3(dppb)( ti C q) [42] (with M = Mo, Cr, W), Mo(CO)3(dppe)(Ti C7o) [50], W(CO)3(dppf)(Ti C7o) [41] or Mo(CO)-(phen)dbm(r C7Q) [47, 48] (abbreviations see [52]). As far as could be proven via X-ray spectroscopy the addition takes place at the poles of C q at the 1,2-double bond. The same coordination site was also found for the brown-black Pd complex (p2c2o)Pd(PPh3)2 [53]. 

The most active d metal peroxo complexes toward nucleophilic substrates, like amines, phosphines, thioethers, double bonds etc., are molybdenum, tungsten and rhenium derivatives vanadium and titanium catalysis is also important, in particular when... 

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