Nucleophilic metal-alkyne complexes reactions

Transition metal alkyne complexes also react with nucleophiles, in this case to generate CT-vinyl complexes. There are fewer stable alkyne complexes of higher oxidation state or cationic metals than olefin complexes. Because these types of alkyne complexes are most susceptible to nucleophilic attack, less information is available on tfiis reaction than on nucleophilic attack on coordinated alkenes. Nevertheless, reactions of several cationic alkyne complexes with nucleophiles have been reported, and a few examples are presented here. 

While the alkoxymetallation process has typically been affected by highly electrophilic metal salts, high-valent metal species generated by an oxidative addition have also been used to activate alkynes through the formation of 7r-complexes. In such cases, the metal-carbon emerging from the attack of an oxygen nucleophile may enter a reaction manifold that leads to an additional C-G bond formation rather than a simple protic quench. This approach, pioneered by Arcadi and Cacci, has proved to be a powerful strategy for the synthesis of structurally diverse substituted... 

Although alkynes are highly reactive toward a wide range of transition metals, very few instances of metal-catalyzed reactions of nucleophiles with alkynes are known. This is, in part, because most stable alkyne-metal complexes are inert to nucleophilic attack, while most unstable alkyne-metal complexes tend to oligomerize alkynes faster than anything else. Hence synthetic methodology involving this process is quite limited. 

As noted in the introduction, in contrast to attack by nucleophiles, attack of electrophiles on saturated alkene-, polyene- or polyenyl-metal complexes creates special problems in that normally unstable 16-electron, unsaturated species are formed. To be isolated, these species must be stabilized by intramolecular coordination or via intermolecular addition of a ligand. Nevertheless, as illustrated in this chapter, reactions of significant synthetic utility can be developed with attention to these points. It is likely that this area will see considerable development in the future. In addition to refinement of electrophilic reactions of metal-diene complexes, synthetic applications may evolve from the coupling of carbon electrophiles with electron-rich transition metal complexes of alkenes, alkynes and polyenes, as well as allyl- and dienyl-metal complexes. Sequential addition of electrophiles followed by nucleophiles is also viable to rapidly assemble complex structures. 

Reactions of alkenes and alkynes that generate a carbon-metal bond by nucleophilic addition to a metal ir-complex and subsequently undergo carbon monoxide insertion to yield a carbonyl product are... 

Cationic platinum(II) acetylene complexes react with a variety of nucleophiles. Chisholm and Clark showed that the reaction of methanol with coordinated disubsti-tuted acetylenes (generated in situ) affords trans u-bonded vinyl ether complexes (Equation 11.35). The trans stereochemistry of the cr-vinyl group of the product suggests that the nucleophilic attack occurs external to the metal and does not involve prior coordination of methanol, Reger has shown that stable cationic iron-alkyne complexes undergo reaction with a wide variety of nucleophiles to give stable cr-alkenyl complexes resulting from trans attack of the nucleophile on the coordinated acetylene (Equation 11.36). A variety... 

Reaction of the cyclometallated derivative of phenyl-2-pyridylketone 73 leads to indenol-chelated, palladium-containing derivatives 74. Here, incorporating an electrophilic (CO) function in the starting palladacycle signifies that, following alkyne insertion in the Pd-C bond, an intramolecular attack of the vinyl palladated unit on the metal-bound, activated CO function occurs. This is in sharp contrast to the reaction described in Scheme 9 whereby incorporating a nucleophilic, masked, secondary amine function leads to indole derivatives 40 and to the azepinium synthesis from the metallated benzylpyridine complex 34. Therefore, these reactions are rather sensitive to the nature of other potentially reactive functions within the metallacyclic framework. 

Reactions A carbyne can couple with another carbyne to give an alkyne or alkyne complex.For instance, Br(CO)4Cr CPh reacts with Ce(IV) to give free PhC CPh. Carbynes also have extensive photochemistry. In the Fischer series, the carbyne carbon is electrophilic and subject to nucleophilic attack, for example, by PMcj, pyridine, RLi, or isonitrile (= Nu) to give a carbene of the type L M=CR(Nu). Alternatively, the nucleophile may attack the metal in L (CO)M=CR and produce a ketenyl complex... 

In contrast, unactivated olefins and alkynes complexed to organopalladium species generated in situ by oxidative addition of an unsaturated halide to a palladium(0) complex react intramolecularly with stabilized nucleophiles. These reactions that require catalytic quantities of the metal result in overall difunctionalization of the olefinic or acetylenic substrates. 

Metal-carbyne complexes M CR are less known than metal carbenes. The carbyne can also be nucleophilic (Schrock type) or electrophilic (Fischer type). Fischer-type metal-carbynes are obtained by reaction of BF3 on a neutral Fischer-type metal-carbene complex, whereas Sehroek earbynes are often obtained by deshydrohalogenation of a Schrock-type metal-carbene eomplex. They catalyze alkyne metathesis and, in particular, give heterocycles with unsaturated substrates. 

Cycloaromatization of enediynes by diradical pathways in the thermal-and metal-catalyzed routes allows nonfunctionalized benzene derivatives to be prepared. The aromatization of enediynes by the action of nucleophiles produces aromatic compounds retaining the respective nucleophilic residue [333, 334]. The ruthenium-catalyzed reaction gives rise to the synthesis of various functionalized benzene derivatives. Thus, adding water, alcohols, aniline, acetylacetone, pyrroles, and dimethyl malonate to acyclic and aromatic enediynes 3.711 at 100°C for 12-24 hours in the presence of TpRuPPh3(MeCN)2PF6 (10 mol%) led to the functionalized benzenes 3.712 in satisfactory yields (Scheme 3.79) [334]. This cyclization involves regioselective nucleophilic attack of enediyne 3.711 to form a, TT-vinylruthenium intermediate 3.714 which finally converts to the benzene derivative. Experiment with labeled hydrogen atoms showed that the ruthenium n-alkyne complexes 3.713 are catalytically active. 

We see from these examples that many of the carbon nucleophiles we encountered in Chapter 10 are also nucleophiles toward aldehydes and ketones (cf. Reactions 10-104-10-108 and 10-110). As we saw in Chapter 10, the initial products in many of these cases can be converted by relatively simple procedures (hydrolysis, reduction, decarboxylation, etc.) to various other products. In the reaction with terminal acetylenes, sodium acetylides are the most common reagents (when they are used, the reaction is often called the Nef reaction), but lithium, magnesium, and other metallic acetylides have also been used. A particularly convenient reagent is lithium acetylide-ethylenediamine complex, a stable, free-flowing powder that is commercially available. Alternatively, the substrate may be treated with the alkyne itself in the presence of a base, so that the acetylide is generated in situ. This procedure is called the Favorskii reaction, not to be confused with the Favorskii rearrangement (18-7). ... 

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