Reporter ligand technique

Interestingly, this 1,4-carbochlorination occurs syn, which constrasts with that via the vinylpalladation in Eq.(49), which occurs anti. An explanation for this difference is that the allylsilane attacks the palladium-diene complex anti, leading to a rrans-carbopalladation of the double bond. This is the first example of nucleophilic attack by an allylsilane on an olefin coordinated to a metal. Direct evidence for a frans-carbopalladation was provided by the isolation of the proposed 7r-allyl intermediate of Eq.(51) as its chlorodimer 98a from reaction of 97 with Li2PdCl4 in the absence of benzoquinone [Eq.(52)] [119b]. The trans relationship between palladium and the carbon that has attacked the diene was established by the reporter ligand technique used for 41 in Section 8.3.1.1 under Intramolecular 1,4-diacyloxylation . 

At present, it is reported that there is no analytical technique capable of quantifying the entire organotin compound with its associated ligand in dilute solutions in water (Parametrix, 2002g), although experimental procedures are under development that may allow for determination of the entire organotin compormd in water (e.g. Yoder, 2003). 

Comba and co-workers described a simple and efficient method for the determination of solution structures of weakly coupled binuclear copper(II) complexes.54 The technique involves the combination of molecular mechanics55,56 and EPR spectroscopy. From this standpoint they reported the structure of the complex (29). Using an acyclic tertiary tetraamine ligand, Bernhardt reported57 crystal structure of the complex (30), along with its redox properties. 

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