Nickel , acetylacetonate complexes

Polymerization of alkynes by Ni" complexes produces a variety of products which depend on conditions and especially on the particular nickel complex used. If, for instance, O-donor ligands such as acetylacetone or salicaldehyde are employed in a solvent such as tetrahydrofuran or dioxan, 4 coordination sites are available and cyclotetramerization occurs to give mainly cyclo-octatetraene (cot). If a less-labile ligand such as PPhj is incorporated, the coordination sites required for tetramerization are not available and cyclic trimerization to benzene predominates (Fig. A). These syntheses are amenable to extensive variation and adaptation. Substituted ring systems can be obtained from the appropriately substituted alkynes while linear polymers can also be produced. 

Nickel, tris(l, 10-phenanthroline) racemization, 1,24. 466 solid state, 1, 467 structure, 1,64 Nickel complexes, 5,1-300 acetylacetone alcoholysis, 2, 380 pyridine complexes, 2, 386 solvolysis, 2,379 structure, 2,388 amidines... 

Oxidative addition of the silyl species to nickel is followed by insertion of unsaturated substrates. Zero-valent nickel complexes, and complexes prepared by reducing nickel acetylacetonate with aluminum trialkyls or ethoxydialkyls, and in general Ziegler-Natta-type systems, are effective as catalysts (244, 260-262). Ni(CO)4 is specific for terminal attack of SiHCl3 on styrene (261). 

Nickel(ll) acetylacetonate catalyzes the addition of acetylacetone or ethyl acetoacetate to carbodiimides (Equation (89)).447 The acetylacetonate ligand of Ni(acac)2 may react with a carbodiimide to give a nickel complex having a 3-substituted acetylacetonate, which is then protonated by another acetylacetone to afford an adduct and Ni(acac)2. 

Catalytic homogeneous hydrogenation of cyclohexene has been claimed for simple systems such as nickel(II) acetylacetonate [39] or a nickel-chloride complex with two monodentate amines [40]. The latter complex was used as comparison for a heterogeneous catalyst obtained by impregnation of the complex on y-alu-mina [40]. SCRs of 100 were used at 30 atm. H2 and temperatures up to 100°C, resulting in conversions of only 20-35% after 1 h. 

Nickel (II) acetylacetonate [3264-82-2] M 256.9, m 229-230°, h 220-235°/llmm, d 1.455. Wash the green solid with H2O, dry in a vacuum desiccator and recrystallise from MeOH. [JPC 62 440 1958]. The complex can be conveniently dehydrated by azeotropic distn with toluene and the crystals may be isolated by concentrating the toluene solution. [JACS 76 1970 1954]. 

The archetype of -diketones is acetylacetone (2,4-pentanedione Scheme 21 R = R = Me R" = H). Nickel complexes with this ligand are very numerous and are the ones studied in most detail. 

Metal complexes with fluoro-/3-diketones have been comprehensively reviewed.1585 The introduction of electron-withdrawing groups in the chelate ring increases the Lewis acidity strength of the ML2 complexes, and consequently the bis adducts of the fluoro-/3-diketonato complexes are more stable than the corresponding complexes with /3-diketones. As an example of a nickel complex with 1,1,1-trifluoroacetylacetone which does not have a counterpart in the nickel acetylacetonate complexes we can mention the hexanuclear complex Ni6Lio(OH)2(H20)2.1586... 

An alternative procedure starts from a metal complex of o-phenylenedi-amine. For example, the bis(o-phenylenediamine) complex of nickel(II) chloride reacts with acetylacetone to give a mixture of a nickel complex of the diamine and diketone together with 2,4-dimethylbenzodiazepinium chloride (76CPB1934 91JPR327). Chromium complexes have been used in the same way [91JCS(D)2045]. 

Vinyl sulfides have been prepared by the catalytic addition of the S—H bond of thiols (85) to terminal alkynes (86) under solvent-free conditions using the nickel complex Ni(acac)2 (47). High alkyne conversions (up to 99%) were achieved after 30 min at 40 °C in favor of the corresponding Markovnikov products (87) (equation 23). Other metal acetylacetonate complexes were examined for this reaction, but none showed any improvement over the nickel catalyst. Mechanistic details suggest that alkyne insertion into the Ni—S bond is important to the catalytic cycle and that nanosized structural units comprised of [Ni(SAr)2] represent the active form of the catalyst. Isothiocyanates and vinyl sulfides have been produced in related Rh(acac)(H2C=CH2)2 (6) and VO(acac)2 (35) catalyzed sulfenylation reactions of aryl cyanides and aryl acetylenes, respectively. 

Since the oxygen atoms as well as the alpha carbon on the /3-keto-enolate ring can function as bases to coordinate with metal ions (5, or to hydrogen bonding solvents (14)f it should be recognized that /3-keto-enolate complexes may have a stereochemistry quite different from that expected—based on the stoichiometry of the complex. However, by a suitable choice of a /3-ketoenol ligand, such as 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptanedione (dipivaloylmethane), H-DPM, intermolecular effects can be reduced or eliminated with the result that the metal complex formed has the stereochemistry expected for the monomeric acetylacetonate complex of that metal ion. For example, nickel(II) acetylacetonate is trimeric as a solid and in solution (11), but the dipivaloylmethane complex is a monomeric, undoubtedly planar species, in solution, as well as in the solid state (37), This stereochemistry occurs with the monomeric acetylacetonate in dilute solution or in the vapor phase, as indicated by absorption spectra and electron diffraction (SO). 

The nickel complex, Ni ( 5115)2, has been made by the action of the Grignard reagent on nickel (II) acetylacetonate (217) or from potassium cyclopentadienyl and the ammine [Ni(NHs)el (S N)2 in liquid ammonia (58). It forms dark emerald-green crystals which sublime at 80-90° and which, when heated in nitrogen, melt, with decomposition and the formation of a nickel mirror, at 173-174°. It is only slowly oxidized in air, and cold water neither attacks nor dissolves it it is, however, readily soluble in organic liquids. Oxidation of the compound yields an orange-yellow solution containing the ion [Ni( 5H5)2]+, which is stable for a short period in weakly acidic media, and which may be precipitated as the reineckate or tetraphenylborate. 

The chelated metal ion does not seem to affect the pathway of the nitration reactions, but does have an effect on their course. The reaction of nickel(II) acetylacetonate with nitrous acid in water, ethanol, or ethanol-water solutions in the presence of ammonium acetate gave a red compound, N CsHjNsChK which was diamagnetic, monomeric in chloroform solution, and a nonelectrolyte in nitrobenzene. A similar compound was obtained with Pd(II), and the presence of ammonia was found to be essential for the formation of these two compounds. The corresponding compounds of Cu(II) and Pt(II) could not be prepared under the same experimental conditions. The infrared spectra of the nickel and palladium complexes are compatible with the two structures (XII) and (XIII), and on this evidence... 

Owen and Thomley (547) have reviewed covalency in transition metal ions and, in particular, in nickel complexes. The NMR contact shift method has been used by Eaton et al. (195) to determine spin densities on organic ligands of paramagnetic molecules. In particular (194), a series of nickel aminotroponeiminates have been studied whereby conjugative and hyperconjugative effects within the molecule may be monitored. Similar studies of contact shifts have been carried out on Co and Ni pyrromethenes and porphyrins (196) and on many transition metal acetylacetonates (193) by Eaton et al. 

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