Sulfur-substituted carbene complexes

The reaction of sulfur-substituted carbene complexes with HBr at —30° gives sulfide complexes (Fischer and Kreis, 1973). 

Treatment of Fischer-type carbene complexes with different oxidants can lead to the formation of carbonyl compounds [150,253]. Treatment with sulfur leads to the formation of complexed thiocarbonyl compounds [141]. Conversion of the carbene carbon atom into a methylene or acetal group can be achieved by treatment with reducing agents. Treatment of vinylcarbene complexes with diborane can also lead to demetallation and formation of diols [278]. The conversion of heteroatom-substituted carbene complexes to non-heteroatom-substituted carbene complexes... 

Alkoxy-substituted carbene complexes serve as valuable precursors for a wide variety of metal-carbene complexes as the carbene carbon atom is very susceptible to nucleophilic attack and the alkoxy group is a better leaving group than the entering nitrogen, sulfur, or carbon nucleophiles. 

Several other observations suggest that nucleophilic carbene complexes, similarly to, e.g., sulfur ylides, can cyclopropanate acceptor-substituted olefins by an addition-elimination mechanism. If, e.g., acceptor-substituted olefins are added to a mixture of a simple alkene and the metathesis catalyst PhWCl3/AlCl3, the metathesis reaction is quenched and small amounts of acceptor-substituted cyclopropanes can be isolated [34]. 

ABSTRACT. Dicarbonyl(t 5-cyclopentadienyl)carbyne complexes of molybdenum and tungsten prove to be a valuable synthetic tool Reaction with phosphines provides substituted carbyne complexes and leads via an intramolecular CC-coupling to t 1- or Tj -ketenyl complexes respectively. Electrophiles attack the metal carbyne triple bond forming hetero- and acyclic carbene complexes, r 2-acyl compounds, T -ketene complexes and metalla-dithia-bicyclobutane cations. Dithio-carboxylates are formed in reaction of these dicarbonyl(Ti5 cyclo-pentadienyl)carbyne complexes with sulfur or cyclohexene sulfide. 

Figure 5.1 Metal complexes comprising the classical imidazol-2-ylidene ligand (A) and representative non-classical carbene ligands (B-N), including normal carbenes (B-E), abnormal carbenes (F-I), remote carbenes (E, G, I), cyclic alkyl(amino)carbenes (J), acyclic carbenes (K, L, M) and amino(ylide)-carbenes (N). Substituted nitrogen centres may be replaced by oxygen or sulfur. The M=C bond representation— while strongly over-emphasizing the differences in the nature of the metal-carbon bond in these non-classical carbene complexes— was used to accentuate normal and abnormal bonding.

The reaction of thiourea derivatives with a metal complex to form NHC complexes is a combination of the NHC formation from thioureas with potassium or sodium [Eq. (23)] and the cleavage of electron rich olefins. For example, a lO-S-3-tetraazapentalene derivative is cleaved by Pd(PPh3)4 and [(Ph3P)3RhCl], respectively [Eq. (35)]. Other substitution patterns in the carbene precursor, including selenium instead of sulfur can also be used. ... 

Current IUPAC and Chemical Abstracts nomenclature has been employed in this index with the former given preference. Substitutive nomenclature has been given preference over radicofunc-tional, additive, subtractive, conjunctive or replacement nomenclature, except where this becomes unwieldy. With many bicyclic and polycyclic compounds bearing heteroatoms, standard bicyclic or polycyclic oxa, aza, and thia replacement nomenclature has often been used. With certain functional groups, where the names are rather complex and probably not familiar to most organic chemists, such as ylides, those compounds have simply been named as sulfur, tellurium and arsonic ylides. Metal carbenes have been treated similarly. With more complex functionality and many heterocycles, the Beilstein Commander Crossfire nomenclature system has been used with certain modifications. 

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