Polyalkenyl-allenylidene

Besides Selegue s methodology, several synthetic alternatives of ruthenium allenylidene complexes have been reported. The most popular involves trapping of transient butatrienylidene or pentatetraenylidene intermediates with nucleophiles [26-29]. Although alcohols, amines, or thiols have been usually employed in these reactions leading to the corresponding heteroatom-substituted allenylidenes, in some cases the use of carbon-centred nucleophiles, such as pyrroles, has been described [185, 186]. Quite recently, a systematic route to prepare sequentially polyalkenyl-allenylidene complexes has also been discovered (Scheme 11) [187— 189]. The first step consists of the insertion of the ynamine MeC=CNEt2 into the... 

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