Oxametallacyclic compounds

Organometallic compounds asymmetric catalysis, 11, 255 chiral auxiliaries, 266 enantioselectivity, 255 see also specific compounds Organozinc chemistry, 260 amino alcohols, 261, 355 chirality amplification, 273 efficiency origins, 273 ligand acceleration, 260 molecular structures, 276 reaction mechanism, 269 transition state models, 264 turnover-limiting step, 271 Orthohydroxylation, naphthol, 230 Osmium, olefin dihydroxylation, 150 Oxametallacycle intermediates, 150, 152 Oxazaborolidines, 134 Oxazoline, 356 Oxidation amines, 155 olefins, 137, 150 reduction, 5 sulfides, 155 Oxidative addition, 5 amine isomerization, 111 hydrogen molecule, 16 Oxidative dimerization, chiral phenols, 287 Oximes, borane reduction, 135 Oxindole alkylation, 338 Oxiranes, enantioselective synthesis, 137, 289, 326, 333, 349, 361 Oxonium polymerization, 332 Oxo process, 162 Oxovanadium complexes, 220 Oxygenation, C—H bonds, 149... 

Metallaheterocycles with the metal atom capable of supporting a carbon-metal double bond, and with oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, or selenium as the second heteroatom are the only structures capable of full conjugation. These compounds show furan-like aromaticity with the heteroatom p-electrons participating. Obviously, very few reported metallaheterocycles fill these criteria, and the only report which documents aromaticity is one for a rhenium oxametallacyclic <93JA9986>. This report did not describe the chemistry of the aromatic compound, only its synthesis and characterization. 

The mechanisms of these reactions bear marked similarities, in spite of the differences in their reactivities and selectivities. Thus, in certain cases, a four-membered intermediate similar to the 1,2-oxaphosphetane intermediate in the Wittig reaction appears in the Peterson reaction as a pentacoordinate 1,2-oxasiletanide. Reactions of transition metal carbene complexes with carbonyl compounds also proceed through the formation of a four-membered oxametallacycle, which was recently found to be an intermediate of some McMurry reactions. Carbonyl olefination utilizing dimetallic species of zinc or chromium is somewhat similar to the Julia reaction in that they both involve the process of ) -elimination. 

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