Oxygen reaction with organometallic compounds

For a monograph, sec Brilkina Shushunov Reactions of Organometallic Compounds with Oxygen and Peroxides, CRC Press Boca Raton, FL, 1969. For a review, sec Wardcll Paterson, in Hartley Palai, Ref. I. vol. 2, 1985 pp. 219-338. pp. 311-316. 

Brilkina T.G, Shushunov V.A, Reactions of Organometallic Compounds with Oxygen and Peroxides, Nauka, Moscow, 1966... 

A131. T. G. Brilkina and V. A. Shushunov, Reactions of Organometallic Compounds with Oxygen and Peroxides. Iliffe Books, London, 1969. 234 pp. A translation of "Reaktsii metalloorganicheskikh soedinenii s kislorodom i perekisyami, Nauka, Moscow, 1966. 

Berlin, L.E. (Tr. Nauch. Inst. Moscow 1958 49, cited in Brilkina, T.G. Shushunov, V.A., Reactions of Organometallic Compounds with Oxygen and Peroxides, Iliffe, London 1969, p. 158). 

There are many examples of organometallic compounds containing oxygen atoms as ligands an appreciable number of these resulted from reactions with O2. Early work has been reviewed by Bottomley and Sutin [ 17]. Thus we concentrate on more recent reports, and those of particular interest. 

The reaction of bis-phenylpropargyl ether (321) with tris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium chloride in benzene or toluene led to the formation of the unusual organometallic compound (322), which can be viewed as a derivative of an oxygen-rhodium pentalene system. Reaction of the rhodium complex (322) with sulfur leads to the corresponding 4,6-diphenyl-l,3-dihydro[3,4-c]furan (323). The selenium and tellurium analogs (324) and (325) were made in a similar manner (Scheme 111) (76LA1448). 

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