Reaction imido-exchange

The formation of a bis(guanidinate)-supported titanium imido complex has been achieved in different ways, two of which are illustrated in Scheme 90. The product is an effective catalyst for the hydroamination of alkynes (cf. Section V.B). It also undergoes clean exchange reactions with other aromatic amines to afford new imide complexes such as [Me2NC(NPr )2]2Ti = NC6F5. ... 

Likewise, imido tantalium complexes 176 undergo exchange reactions with N-t-butyl-N -... 

Much of the reactivity of amido ligands involves proton exchange processes that eliminate amine. The exchange is believed to occur by an associative mechanism consequently, the rate of reaction decreases for sterically congested metal complexes. For example, treatment of V[N(CH3)2]j with terf-butanol at room temperature forms V(O-f-Bu) in good yield, while at this temperature the more encumbered complex W[N(CH3)2] reacts only slowly with methanol and ethanol, and not at all with tert-butanoV° The use of bulky N-alkyl substituents allows for the isolation of low-coordinate complexes, such as Cr[N( -Pr)2]3- Amido complexes derived from primary amines can also serve as precursors to imido complexes. In many cases, amido halide complexes form imido complexes by loss of hydrogen chloride in the presence of a base (Equation 4.17). ... 

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