Titanium carbon complex

OC-Hydroxycarboxylic Acid Complexes. Water-soluble titanium lactate complexes can be prepared by reactions of an aqueous solution of a titanium salt, such as TiCl, titanyl sulfate, or titanyl nitrate, with calcium, strontium, or barium lactate. The insoluble metal sulfate is filtered off and the filtrate neutralized using an alkaline metal hydroxide or carbonate, ammonium hydroxide, amine, or alkanolamine (78,79). Similar solutions of titanium lactate, malate, tartrate, and citrate can be produced by hydrolyzation of titanium salts, such as TiCl, in strongly (>pH 10) alkaline water isolation of the... 

Titanium-acetylene complexes 29 generated in situ from acetylenes, Ti(0-i-Pr)4 and /-PrMgX react with imines to form azatitanacyclopentenes 30 which then react with carbon monoxide under atmospheric pressure to provide pyrroles 31 <96TL7787>. This reaction, which utilizes commercially available reagents is an improvement over a related procedure via the corresponding zirconium complexes under 1500 psi CO <89JA776>. 

Based on the established mechanism for titanium-catalyzed hydroamination, the authors propose a reversible reaction between a titanium imide complex and the alkyne to form metalloazacyclobutene 86, which in turn undergoes 1,1-insertion of the isonitrile into the Ti-C bond. The generated five-membered ring iminoacyl-amido complex 87 with the new C-C bond is protonated by the primary amine to afford the desired three-component coupling product, with regeneration of the catalytic imidotitanium species. Very recently, titanium-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions have been reviewed.122... 

Similar to Cp2TiCl2, T OPr1) as a less expensive precursor, can also be utilized for the synthesis of titanium-alkyne complexes.13 The reactivity of the (Pr10)2Ti-alkyne complexes toward a variety of substrates has been investigated.14 In the case of unsymmetrical alkynes as a starting material, the less hindered carbon of the resultant... 

The bisfunctionalization of alkynes by both C02 and another electrophile can also be achieved, as shown in Scheme 9.17,17a The titanium-carbon bond in the titanacycle complex 31, which was formed by reaction of C02 with the titanacyclopropene 30, can be substituted with various electrophiles. For example, its reaction with NBS or I2 afforded the synthetically useful vinyl bromide or iodide 32, respectively, while the reaction with D20 yielded the /3-deuterated a,/ -unsaturated carboxylic acid. When an aldehyde such as PhCHO was used as an electrophile, butenolide 33 was produced after acidic workup. 

The first isolable alkenetitanium complex, the bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)-titanium—ethylene complex 5, was prepared by Bercaw et al. by reduction of bis(penta-methylcyclopentadienyl)titanium dichloride in toluene with sodium amalgam under an atmosphere of ethylene (ca. 700 Torr) or from ( (n-C5Mc5)2Ti 2(fJ-N2)2 by treatment with ethylene [42], X-ray crystal structure analyses of 5 and of the ethylenebis(aryloxy)trimethyl-phosphanyltitanium complex 6 [53] revealed that the coordination of ethylene causes a substantial increase in the carbon—carbon double bond length from 1.337(2) A in free ethylene to 1.438(5) A and 1.425(3) A, respectively. Considerable bending of the hydrogen atoms out of the plane of the ethylene molecule is also observed. By comparison with structural data for other ethylene complexes and three-membered heterocyclic compounds, the structures of 5 and 6 would appear to be intermediate along the continuum between a Ti(11)-ethylene (4A) and a Ti(IV)-metallacyclopropane (4B) (Scheme 11.1) as... 

Reactions of Titanium Carbene Complexes with Carbon Carbon Double Bonds... 

The potential synthetic utility of titanium-based olefin metathesis and related reactions is evident from the extensive documentation outlined above. Titanium carbene complexes react with organic molecules possessing a carbon—carbon or carbon—oxygen double bond to produce, as metathesis products, a variety of acyclic and cyclic unsaturated compounds. Furthermore, the four-membered titanacydes formed by the reactions of the carbene complexes with alkynes or nitriles serve as useful reagents for the preparation of functionalized compounds. Since various types of titanium carbene complexes and their equivalents are now readily available, these reactions constitute convenient tools available to synthetic chemists. 

Titanium-catalyzed cyclization/hydrosilylation of 6-hepten-2-one was proposed to occur via / -migratory insertion of the G=G bond into the titanium-carbon bond of the 77 -ketone olefin complex c/iatr-lj to form titanacycle cis-ll] (Scheme 16). cr-Bond metathesis of the Ti-O bond of cis- iij with the Si-H bond of the silane followed by G-H reductive elimination would release the silylated cyclopentanol and regenerate the Ti(0) catalyst. Under stoichiometric conditions, each of the steps that converts the enone to the titanacycle is reversible, leading to selective formation of the more stable m-fused metallacycle." For this reason, the diastereoselective cyclization of 6-hepten-2-one under catalytic conditions was proposed to occur via non-selective, reversible formation of 77 -ketotitanium olefin complexes chair-1) and boat-1), followed by preferential cyclization of chair-1) to form cis-11) (Scheme 16). 

Another allyl compound which reacts stoichiometrically with carbon dioxide is (fj5-C5H5)2Ti(l-methylallyl) (120). The titanium acetate complex which is formed is interesting in that the carbon dioxide carbon atom is attached to the substituted end of the allyl. It seems unlikely, then, that the product is the result of C02 insertion into the -methylallyltitanium bond in view of the fact that methyl-substituted allyls tend to form fj -complexes in which the metal is bonded to the least substituted end of the allyl. One possible explanation offered by the authors is that the allyl is bonded to titanium at the methylene carbon, but that rearrangement occurs subsequent to adduct formation [Eq. (49)]. 

Ti—13Cp 40.1 ppm), and only weak signals of 13C-labeled alkyl groups at the aluminium were observed (see Fig. 6). These results indicate that an insertion of ethylene takes place into a titanium-carbon bond of a titanium-aluminum complex and no alkyl exchange between the bonds of titanium-alkyl and aluminum-alkyl occurs. 

Concomitant with continued olefin insertion into the metal-carbon bond of the titanium-aluminum complex, alkyl exchange and hydrogen-transfer reactions are observed. Whereas the normal reduction mechanism for transition-metal-organic complexes is initiated by release of olefins with formation of hydride followed by hydride transfer (184, 185) to an alkyl group, in the case of some titanium and zirconium compounds a reverse reaction takes place. By the release of ethane, a dimetalloalkane is formed. In a second step, ethylene from the dimetalloalkane is evolved, and two reduced metal atoms remain (119). 

Reductive cyclization to release the cyclobutanimine is induced by the addition of a coordinating rt-acidic ligand, whereas exposure to carbon monoxide promotes a second insertion to yield titanium cyclopentenamidolate complexes 96 <20020M1011>. 

Sinn and Patat (59) drew attention to the electron-deficient character of those main group alkyls that afford complexes with the titanium compound. Fink et al. (51) showed by 13C NMR spectroscopy with 13C-enriched ethylene at low temperatures (when no alkyl exchange was observed) that, in the more highly halogenated systems, insertion of the ethylene takes place into a titanium-carbon bond of a titanium-aluminum complex. 

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