Organotin iodide complex

A few years later, Baba reported a more comprehensive description of the coupling reaction of oxetane and C02 catalyzed by organotin iodides and Lewis bases as catalysts [60]. It was shown in this instance, that the choice of Lewis base which coordinated to the organotin iodides affected the catalytic activity and selectivity, that is, poly(TMC) and/or trimethylene carbonate. Whilst complexes with Bu3P yielded polycarbonate, the combination of Bu3SnI with Bu3P=0 yielded TMC exclusively in good yields. A reaction mechanism, as proposed by Baba and coworkers, is illustrated in Scheme 8.5. 

Organotins. The organotin reagents have much lower nucleophilicity than that of the Grignard reagents, thus allowing the use of a variety of functionalized monomers for the polymerization. Aryl-alkenyl iodides, bromides and tosylates have been used as substrates. Palladium complexes are commonly employed as catalysts for the reaction. Because the catalysts can be destroyed... 

At raised temperature and CO pressure, terminal acetylenes can replace the organotin derivatives, giving acetylenic ketones (equation 114).491 Some of these reactions occur at normal pressure. Aryl, heterocyclic and vinyl bromides and iodides could be used. These reactions again required a stoichiometric quantity of base. The complexes (102), [PdCI2L2] (L = l,l -bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene) and [PdI(Ph)(AsPh3)2] were used as catalysts. The mechanism was not discussed. 

The most important substrates for substitutions of this type are alkenyl and aryl triflates, bromides, or iodides (Sections 16.1-16.4). The most important organometallic compounds to be introduced into the substrates contain Cu, Mg, B, Zn or Sn. The metal-bound C atom can be sp2-, sp2-, or. sp-hybridized in these compounds, and each of these species, in principle, is capable of reacting with unsaturated substrates. Organocopper compounds often (Section 16.1, 16.2), but not always substitute without the need for a catalyst (Section 16.4.5). Grignard compounds substitute in the presence of catalytic amounts of Ni complexes (Section 16.3), while organoboron (Section 16.4.2), organozinc (Section 16.4.3) and organotin (Section 16.4.4) compounds are typically reacted in the presence of Pd complexes (usually Pd(PPhj)4). 

The cross-coupling reaction of alkenyl(fluoro)silanes with aryl halides sometimes produces, in addition to the desired ipso-cowpled products, small amounts of cmc-coupled products [14]. The czne-coupling is often striking in the reaction with organotin compounds. The isomer ratio of products produced by the reaction of l-fluoro(dimethyl)silyl-l-phenylethene with aryl iodides is found to depend on the electronic nature of a substituent on aryl iodides (Eq. 11) an electron-withdrawing group like trifluoromethyl and acetyl favors the formation of the ipso-coupled product. To explain the substituent effect, the mechanism depicted in Scheme 3 is proposed for the transmetalation of alkenylsilanes with palladium(ll) complexes. It is considered that an electron-donating substituent on Ar enhances... 

Tetrathiabenzo[l,3-cfirst time by dimerization of thieno[2,3- >]thiophene (142) (92PS73). More recently, it was found that catalytic reduction of 3,4-dibromothieno[2,3-i]thiophene (227) with an excess of activated zinc in the presence of bis(triphenyl-phosphine)nickel(II) chloride and tetraethylammonium iodide afforded only 4,4 -dibromo-3,3-bis(thieno[2,3- )]thiophene) (228) (in a maximum yield of 28%) (89AG1254). However, the reaction in the presence of a larger amount of the nickel catalyst afforded also dipenatlene 225. Optimization of the reaction conditions made it possible to increase the yield of the latter to only 14%. An alternative procedure was employed to transform thienothiophene 227 into trimethylstannyl derivative 229. The reaction of thienothiophene 227 with organotin intermediate 229 in the presence of the palladium triphenylphosphine complex afforded dipentalene 225 (13% yield). Derivatives 226 were prepared by lithiation of... 

The rate-determining step in the reaction of Ph3SnCHaCH=CHR, where R = H, Me, or Ph, with iodine is thought to be unimolecular decomposition of a 7r-complex between the organotin compound and the iodine. Kinetic parameters and product distributions have been obtained for this reaction in a variety of solvents, in some cases with the addition of iodide ion to the reaction mixture. In acetone or acetonitrile the mechanism is said to involve attack at the carbon atom y to the tin, but in the more polar solvents methanol and dimethyl sulphoxide there is also some direct electrophilic attack by iodine or iodide ion at the tin. ... 

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