Osmium complexes carbene

The porphyrin ligands in the diamagnetic ruthenium and osmium carbene complexes generally exhibit four-fold symmetry by NMR, indicating that the barrier to rotation about the M=C bond is low. The carbenoid protons appear shifted down-field in the H NMR spectra, for example appearing for Ru(TTP)=CHC02Et and Ru(TTP)=CHSiMc3 at 13.43 and 19.44 ppm, respectively, and for the osmium... 

Both rhodium and osmium porphyrins are active for the cyclopropanation of alkenes. The higher activity of the rhodium porphyrin catalysts can possibly be attributed to a more reactive, cationic carbene intermediate, which so far has defied isolation. The neutral osmium carbene complexes are less active as catalysts but the mono- and bis-carbene complexes can be isolated as a result. 

Ruthenium and osmium carbene complexes possess metal centers that are formally in the +2 oxidation state, have an electron count of 16 and are penta-coordinated. Ruthenium complexes exhibit a higher catalytic activity when an imidazole carbene ligand is coordinated to the ruthenium metal center (21). 

Figure 6.37 Synthesis of an osmium carbene complex using 1,3,7-trimethyl xanthine as the...

There are several other methods for the synthesis of carbene complexes of osmium. The reaction of a nucleophile with isocyanide complexes can result in the formation of osmium carbene complexes. Certain electron-rich alkenes add to osmium to form carbene complexes. For example. 

Reviewed in this section is the chemistry of Os3(CO),2, OsH2Cl2(P Pr3)2, Os(/ -MeC6H4CHMe2)(N Bu), NaiOsCl, 0s04and osmium carbene complexes. Reviews of other osmium complexes are available [224-225]. 

Some general reviews relating to the chemistry of Ru/Os-r hydrocarbon complexes appear in the literature the reactivity of Ru-H bonds with alkenes and alkynes/ aspects of ruthenium/osmium vinylidene/allenylidene/cumul-enylidene complexes,equilibria of M-R/M=CR2/M=CR complexes, the organometallic chemistry of metal porphyrin complexes, and the reactions of [Os(P Pr3)2(CO)HGl], ruthenium pyrazoly I borate complexes,and metallabenzynes. Other reviews relate more to applications of some of the complexes outlined in this chapter. See, for example, metal vinylidenes in catalysis,the development of Grubbs-type alkene metathesis catalysts, applications of ruthenium/osmium carbene complexes in metathesis polymerization, and the role of Ru /V-hetero-cyclic carbene complexes in metathesis polymerization. ... 

OsCl2(CO)(CTe)(PPh3)2]. The cationic osmium carbyne complex, [Os(CR)-(CO)a(PPh3)2]+ (R=p-tolyl), reacts with LijBtsBH] to form the unusual vinylidene complex (34). Iron, ruthenium, and osmium carbene complexes are also discussed in Section 2 (refs. 8, 34, and 38). 

Diazoalkanes are u.seful is precursors to ruthenium and osmium alkylidene porphyrin complexes, and have also been investigated in iron porphyrin chemistry. In an attempt to prepare iron porphyrin carbene complexes containing an oxygen atom on the /(-carbon atom of the carbene, the reaction of the diazoketone PhC(0)C(Ni)CH3 with Fe(TpCIPP) was undertaken. A low spin, diamagnetic carbene complex formulated as Fe(TpCIPP)(=C(CH3)C(0)Ph) was identified by U V-visible and fI NMR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. Addition of CF3CO2H to this rapidly produced the protonated N-alkyl porphyrin, and Bit oxidation in the presence of sodium dithionitc gave the iron(II) N-alkyl porphyrin, both reactions evidence for Fe-to-N migration processes. ... 

The most significant and widely studied reactivity of the ruthenium and osmium porphyrin carbene complexes is their role in catalyzing both the decomposition of diazoesters to produce alkenes and the cyclopropanation of alkenes by diazoesters. Ethyl diazoacetate is used to prepare the carbene complex 0s(TTP)(=CHC02Et)... 

While metalloporphyrin carbene complexes are well established for ruthenium and osmium, they are less well known for rhodium. Cationic rhodium porphyrin carbene intermediates were implicated in a report by Callot et al. in w- hich... 

Thus the reactivity of transition metal-carbene complexes, that is, whether they behave as electrophiles or nucleophiles, is well explained on the basis of the frontier orbital theory. Studies of carbene complexes of ruthenium and osmium, by providing examples with the metal in either of two oxidation states [Ru(II), Os(II) Ru(0), Os(O)], help clarify this picture, and further illustrations of this will be found in the following sections. 

Protonation of 12 yields a compound best described as a face-protonated methylidyne complex, the tungsten-carbon bond length lying in the range observed for a triple bond (28). Protonation of the osmium compound 13 yields a true carbene complex, which for R = Ph has been characterized by X-ray crystallography (see Sections IV and VI). 

The osmium formimidoyl 16 is reversibly protonated to a secondary carbene complex (44) ... 

The effect of metal basicity on the mode of reactivity of the metal-carbon bond in carbene complexes toward electrophilic and nucleophilic reagents was emphasized in Section II above. Reactivity studies of alkylidene ligands in d8 and d6 Ru, Os, and Ir complexes reinforce the notion that electrophilic additions to electron-rich compounds and nucleophilic additions to electron-deficient compounds are the expected patterns. Notable exceptions include addition of CO and CNR to the osmium methylene complex 47. These latter reactions can be interpreted in terms of non-innocent participation of the nitrosyl ligand. 

The osmium-carbyne carbon bond lengths for the three complexes do not differ significantly, and reference to Table IV indicates that these distances are distinctly shorter than the characterized metal-carbon double bonds of osmium carbene and carbonyl complexes. In both osmium alkylidene and carbyne complexes, then, the metal-carbon multiple bond lengths are largely insensitive to changes in the metal electron density (cf. Section IV,B). 

R.H. Grubbs, P. Schwab, and S.T. Nguyen, High metathesis activity ruthenium and osmium metal carbene complexes, US Patent 6 806 325, assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA), October 19, 2004. 

The complete series, thio-, seleno-, and telluroformaldehyde complexes of osmium [OsCl(NO)(r72-E=CH2)(PPh3)2] (E = S, Se, Te), was obtained by reaction of the carbene complex [OsCl(NO)(=CH2)(PPh3)2] with elemental sulfur, selenium, and tellurium, respectively.53... 

The reaction of an osmium carbene cluster containing the cyclic carbene ligand = C(CH=CH)2C(Ph)H which is side on bound to a nonacarbo-nyltriosmium unit with either elemental sulfur/NEt3 or cyclohexene sulfide also afforded a rf-thioketone complex.184... 

Trimethylsilyldiazomethane, 327 Silyl substituted arenes Bis(trimethylsilyl)acetylene, 97 Chromium carbene complexes, 82 Titanium(IV) chloride-Diethylalu-minum chloride, 309 Other organosilanes Osmium tetroxide-Trimethylamine N-oxide-Pyridine, 223 Tributyltin chloride, 315 Di- x-carbonylhexacarbonyldicobalt, 99 Trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesul-fonate, 329... 

Carbene and silylene complexes - Carbene complexes of ruthenium [312] and osmium [313] porphyrins were formed from the neutral dimers [M(P)]2 with diazoalkanes (Eq. 26). 

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