Titanium aluminum methylene

A reactive titanium carbene intermediate is formed from a stable bridged titanium—aluminum methylene complex. 

As shown in Table IV, the highest catalytic activity of metal halides used as Lewis acid for the alkylation reaction of ferrocene with 2 was observed in methylene chloride solvent. Among Lewis acids such as aluminum chloride, aluminum bromide, and Group 4 transition metal chlorides (TiCl4, ZrCU, HfCU), catalytic efficiency for the alkylation decrea.ses in the following order hafnium chloride > zirconium chloride > aluminum chloride > aluminum bromide. Titanium chloride... 

METHYLENATION Alkyidimesitylboranes. p,-Chlorobis(cyclopentadienyl)(dimethyl-aluminum)-p.-methylene-titanium. Methylene bromide-Zinc-Titanium(IV) chloride. Organomolybdenum reagents. Titanocene methylene-Zn halide complex. N,N,P-Tri-methyl-P-phenylphosphinothioic amide. Trimethylstannylmethyllithium. 

METHYLENATION N-Methylphenylsulfonimidoylmethyl lithium. Phenylthioacetic acid. Titanium(IV) chloride-Lithium aluminum hydride. Trimethylsilylmethylmag-nesium chloride. 

There are other organometallic derivatives that give Wittig-type olefination reactions, with titanium derivatives being the most commonly used. The initial addition reaction to the carbonyl gives a transient metal-ated alcohol that leads to an alkene. An example is the Tebbe reagent, which exists as a bridged methylene species (see 683), where Cp is cyclopentadienyl. 9 The aluminum species can be varied to include chloride... 

It was found that titanacyclobutanes could be prepared by removing the aluminum from 3 with a strong Lewis base in the presence of an olefin, as shown in Eq. 9. These metallacycles were stable with respect to rearrangement to an olefin via a 3 hydride process, and showed a tendency to generate intermediate alkylidene complexes in situ. They ultimately proved to be useful as catalysts for the ring opening metathesis polymerization of a variety of strained olefins. [47,48] It should be noted that the masked titanium methylene complex 3 (Eq. 

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