Organometallic compounds, 1,4-addition with alkyl-metal bonds

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. 

The increase in activity in the field of organotin hydrides is mostly due to the facility of addition of the tin-hydrogen bond to unsaturated systems and to the multiple mechanistic investigations of the hydrostannation reaction. Hev is a number of organometallic reactions, i.e., addition to transition metal complexes7 condensation with metal alkyls yielding tin-metal derivatives and with metal amides for synthesis of compounds with longer tin chains. 

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