Organometallic compounds, 1,4-addition metals with halides

Oxidative addition to transition metal atoms is important in preparing novel organometallic compounds. Reactions of organic halides with the atoms are covered in 5.8.2.9.3. Other reactants are discussed here. 

In Grignard reactions, Mg(0) metal reacts with organic halides of. sp carbons (alkyl halides) more easily than halides of sp carbons (aryl and alkenyl halides). On the other hand. Pd(0) complexes react more easily with halides of carbons. In other words, alkenyl and aryl halides undergo facile oxidative additions to Pd(0) to form complexes 1 which have a Pd—C tr-bond as an initial step. Then mainly two transformations of these intermediate complexes are possible insertion and transmetallation. Unsaturated compounds such as alkenes. conjugated dienes, alkynes, and CO insert into the Pd—C bond. The final step of the reactions is reductive elimination or elimination of /J-hydro-gen. At the same time, the Pd(0) catalytic species is regenerated to start a new catalytic cycle. The transmetallation takes place with organometallic compounds of Li, Mg, Zn, B, Al, Sn, Si, Hg, etc., and the reaction terminates by reductive elimination. 

Electrochemical or Li-benzophenone reduction of Fe(Pc) and Co(Pc) gives [M Pc] and [M (Pc)]2. 198,199 These monovalent metal complexes react with alkyl halides to give organometallic compounds which transfer the alkyl group to alkenes in the presence of Pd11 salts (Scheme 61). [Co PCTS]5- and [Co PCTS]6- reductively bind one and two molecules of oxygen respectively in DMF,198 The second 02 addition is reversible (Scheme 62). 

The members of class (b) are located in a small region in the periodic table at the lower right-hand side of the transition metals. In the periodic table of Figure 6-11, the elements that are always in class (b) and those that are commonly in class (b) when they have low or zero oxidation states are identified. In addition, the transition metals have class (b) character in compounds in which their oxidation state is zero (organometallic compounds). The class (b) ions form halides whose solubility is in the order F > Cr > Br > 1 . The solubility of class (a) halides is in the reverse order. The class (b) metal ions also have a larger enthalpy of reaction with phosphorus donors than with nitrogen donors, again the reverse of the class (a) metal ion reactions. 

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