Niobium complexes alkenes

Bis(cyclooctene)—iridium(I) complexes, preparation, 7, 316 Bis(cyclopentadienyl) alkenes, with tantalum, 5, 157 Bis(cyclopentadienyl) alkyne niobium complexes, characteristics, 5, 81... 

Mono(cyclopentadienyl) complexes alkenes and tantalum, 5, 157 alkyne and niobium, 5, 80 calcium, strontium, barium, 2, 133... 

Hydroamination is an atom-economical process for the synthesis of industrially and pharmaceutically valuable amines. The hydroamination reaction has been studied intensively, including asymmetric reactions, and a variety of catalytic systems based on early and late transition metals as well as main-group metals have been developed." However, Group 5 metal-catalysed hydroaminations of alkenes had not been reported until Hultzsch s work in 2011. Hultzsch discovered that 3,3 -silylated binaphtho-late niobium complex 69 was an efficient catalyst for the enantioselective hydroaminoalkylation of iV-methyl amine derivatives 70 with simple alkenes 71, giving enantioselectivities up to 80% (Scheme 9.30). Enantiomerically pure (l )-binaphtholate niobium amido complex 69 was readily prepared at room temperature in 5 min via rapid amine elimination reactions between Nb(NMe2)5 and l,l-binaphthyl-2-ol possessing bullqr 3,3 -silyl substituents. Since the complex prepared in situ showed reactivity and selectivity identical... 

Cyclopentadienones, in molybdenum carbonyls, 5, 451 Cyclopentadienyl alkenes, with niobium, 5, 76 Cyclopentadienyl-alkoxo complexes, with Ti(IV), 4, 495 Cyclopentadienyl alkyl complexes, with niobium, 5, 66 Cyclopentadienyl-amido complexes, with Ti(IV), via dehalosilylation, 4, 448... 

Heterometal alkoxide precursors, for ceramics, 12, 60-61 Heterometal chalcogenides, synthesis, 12, 62 Heterometal cubanes, as metal-organic precursor, 12, 39 Heterometallic alkenes, with platinum, 8, 639 Heterometallic alkynes, with platinum, models, 8, 650 Heterometallic clusters as heterogeneous catalyst precursors, 12, 767 in homogeneous catalysis, 12, 761 with Ni—M and Ni-C cr-bonded complexes, 8, 115 Heterometallic complexes with arene chromium carbonyls, 5, 259 bridged chromium isonitriles, 5, 274 with cyclopentadienyl hydride niobium moieties, 5, 72 with ruthenium—osmium, overview, 6, 1045—1116 with tungsten carbonyls, 5, 702 Heterometallic dimers, palladium complexes, 8, 210 Heterometallic iron-containing compounds cluster compounds, 6, 331 dinuclear compounds, 6, 319 overview, 6, 319-352... 

Despite dramatically different ancillary ligand sets, two distinct niobium and tantalum alkylidene systems provide isolable metallacyclobutanes upon reaction with ethylene. In one case, the tantalum aryldiamine pincer complex 148 reacts with ethylene to provide the cr-trimethylsilyltantalacyclobutane complex 149 (Equation 66) <19940M3259>. In a more comprehensive study, alkadiene-supported half-sandwich alkylidene complexes of both tantalum and niobium (the former isolable, the latter generated in situ) undergo [2+2] cycloaddition with a range of acyclic and cyclic alkenes, albeit in modest isolated yield (Equation 67). 

Alkyl ligands in niobium and tantalum complexes are susceptible to attack by electrophiles see Electrophilic Reaction). Hydrogenation see Hydrogenation) of niobium or tantalum M-R bonds to provide the metal hydrides is an important reaction of synthetic utility. Insertion reactions of unsaturated reagents into Nb- or Ta-C bonds are common. The unsaturated reagents include alkenes, alkynes, CO, NO, RN=C=NR, CNR, and others. 

Alkoxide ligands play an important spectator role in the chemistry of metal-carbon multiple bonds. Schrock and coworkers have shown that niobium and tantalum alkylidene complexes are active toward the alkene metathesis reaction. One of the terminating steps involves a j8-hydrogen abstraction from either the intermediate metallacycle or the alkylidene ligand. In each case the -hydrogen elimination is followed by reductive elimination. The net effect is a [1,2] H-atom shift, as shown in equations (73) and (74), and a breakdown in the catalytic cycle. Replacing Cl by OR ligands suppresses these side reactions and improves the efficiency of the alkylidene catalysts. ... 

The niobium hydrido styrene complex tNb Ti5-C5H4SiMe3)2(H)(Ti2-PhCH=CH2)] has been prepared both from the reaction of [Nb(Ti -C5H4SiMe3)2(H)3] with styrene and from that of [Nb(Ti5-C5H4SiMe3)2Cl2] with [PhCH2CH2MgBr]. The first method gives rise to two isomeric products (endo, where the alkene substituent is central and exo, with the alkene substituent lateral in the equatorial plane), whilst the latter leiuls exclusively to the endo isomer. 

Very recently, the groups of Bergman and Arnold reported that a niobium-imido complex catalyzes an efficient and selective partial hydrogenation of 1-phenyl-1-propyne to Z-p-methylstyrene under H2/CO mixtures (Fig. 14) [36], An Nb(V) metallacyclopropene complex similar to the previous Ti system was proposed, which was followed by a-bond metathesis with H2 and subsequent reductive elimination to yield the Z-alkene. An excess of CO is required not only for catalyst stability but also for achieving catalyst turnover by replacing the product from the Nb complex. However, only one substrate was included in this report. 

Niobium and tantalum The intermolecular hydroaminoalkylation of unactivated alkenes RCH=CH2 and styrenes with secondary amines ArNHMe to produce amines (229) has been reported to be catalysed by the tantalum and niobium binaphtholate complexes with <98% ee. The reaction has been found to be first order in the amine... 

On the other hand, efficient catalytic dimerization of simple alkenes can be usually achieved by early transition metal alkene or diene complexes. For example the niobium-butadiene complexes 44 and 45 also showed good catalytic activity for dimerization of isoprene into a mixture of the head-to-tail and head-to-head dimers 46 and 47 (Scheme 20). The former catalyst gave products in 85 15 ratio and the latter one gave rise to 70 30 ratio [26]. 

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