Organometallic compounds with isocyanides

Reaction of isocyanides with organometallic compounds (metalated... 

The majority of gold(I) carbene complexes are pure organometallic compounds and the are out of the scope of this work. Some halide or triphenylphosphine carbene complexes are known and they will be considered here. Nucleophilic addition of alcohols or amines to gold-coordinated isocyanides is one of the best-established methods to obtain gold carbene derivatives. The reaction of H[Au(CN)2] with propene oxide and estirene oxide yields (cyano)carbene complexes (380) avoiding the intermediate step.2257 A cyclic carbene compound is obtained by reaction of a dinuclear isocyanide with amine (Scheme 32).2258... 

The chemistry of rhenium(I) is dominated by organometallic compounds which are not covered by this review. Thus, cyclopentadienyl and related compounds, where the organometallic part of the molecule dominate the properties will generally not be considered. Nevertheless, compounds with carbonyl or isocyanide co-ligands will be treated when they can be regarded as constituents of a typical coordination compound or the compounds are of fundamental interest in a radiopharmaceutical context such as the hexakis(isocyanide)rhenium(I) cations. For the same reason a separate section has been included which gives a brief summary of recent attempts to develop synthetic routes to tiicarbonylrhenium(I) complexes for nuclear medical applications. 

Complexes of Crlv with alkyl,216 alkylidene,217 or r/-carborane218 ligands are extensively studied as model compounds for Cr-based alkene polymerization catalysts (Section 4.6.5.1.2). These complexes are described in detail in the Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry series. A CrIV complex with isocyanide ligands is described in Section 4.6.4.2.I. 

In this article the term organometallic compound includes alkyl and aryl derivatives of the rare earths—the transition metals of group III, scandium, yttrium, lanthanum and the lanthanides cerium to liitetium with covalent metal-to-carbon a-bonds, as well as the so-called 77-complexes with more than monohapto metal-to-carbon bonds, for example cyclopentadienyl and olefin complexes, metal acetylides, but not carbonyls, cyanides and isocyanide complexes. Derivatives of scandium, yttrium and lanthanum are included and discussed together with the compounds of the lanthanides, because of many similarities in the synthesis and the chemistry of these organometallic derivatives of the rare earths. 

Although reaction of organozirconocene compounds fails with most organic electrophiles, treatment with sterically unhindered isocyanides, such as rcBuNC, is possible." Organometallic species 24 attacks nBuNC 25 to give isocyanide-insertion product 26, which is finally hydrolyzed to the one-carbon homologated aldehyde 6. 

Scheme 9 demonstrates the further synthetic application of the thus obtained N,0-acetals. Substitution of the alkoxy or acyloxy group by nucleophiles like enol ethers, enol esters, enamines, other electron-rich olefins, CH-acidic compounds, electron-rich aromatics, isocyanides, trimethylsilyl cyanide, organometallics, vinyl and allyl silanes, hydroxy functions, or trialkylphosphites either catalyzed by Lewis acids or proton acids leads to the product of the amidoalkylation reaction (path a). In the presence of stereocenters as control elements, diasteroselective amidoalkylation reactions can be performed as shown in a large number of examples. On the other side, as Nyberg showed for the first time [196], elimination with formation of enecarbamates [208] and enamides [196,208,209] followed by reaction with electrophiles or nucleophiles (path b) also is possible. 

The structural investigation of organometallic intermediates benefits the understanding of reaction mechanism and further reaction chemistry (Scheme 2.6). The reactive intermediate 2-6 features Zr-C(sp ) bond, which was proved to be useful for further synthetic application. 2-6 could react with several unsaturated compounds or electrophiles such as isocyanide, formamide, acid chloride, and aldehyde, alfording a series of A -heterocycles upon hydrolysis (Scheme 2.7). 

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