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Several different transition metal-catalyzed reactions with the 2(li-f)pyrazinone template have been evaluated. The Suzuki-Miyaura coupling was efficient in introducing aryl groups to both the 3 and the 5-positions of the heterocycle. The 3-arylated product could be isolated in 75% yield by using 1.1 equivalents of boronic acid and sodium carbonate as base whereas use of 2.2 equivalents of boronic acid with cesium carbonate yielded the 3,5-disubstituted compound in 52% yield (Scheme 15.21) [56]. Efforts to widen the utility of this Suzuki-Miyaura reaction to include solid-phase reactions met with difficulties, because the reaction was problematic to drive to completion [57]. Other teams have also reported problems with Suzuki-Miyaura couplings on polymeric supports [44, 58]. 

Nielson KD et al (2005) Development of the ReaxEF reactive force field for describing transition metal catalyzed reactions, with application to the initial stages of the catalytic formation of carbon nanotubes. J Phys Chem A 109(3) 493-499... 

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Diaconescu PL. Reactions of early transition metal—carbon bonds with N-heterocycles. Curr Org Chem. 2008 12 1388-1405. 

Carbon monoxide also reacts with olefins such as ethylene to produce high molecular weight polymers. The reaction of CO with ethylene can be initiated by an x-ray irradiator (62) or transition-metal cataly2ed reactions (63). The copolymeri2ation of ethylene with carbon monoxide is cataly2ed by cationic Pd (II) complexes such as Pd[P(CgH )2] (CH CN) (BF 2 where n = 1-3. With this catalyst, copolymeri2ation can be carried out at 25°C and pressures as low as 2.1 MPa. 

The formation of the active metal-carbon bond as a result of the interaction of low-valent ions of the transition metal with olefin is the most intriguing step of the polymerization process by one-component catalysts. The possibility of the formation of the transition metal-carbon bond resulting from the reaction of titanium low-valent ions with ethylene is shown in Dzsabiev et al. (182) ... 

However, these reactions remain hypothetical, and the mechanism of alkylation of low-valent coordinatively insufficient ions during their interaction with hydrocarbons calls for a detailed study. When the activation by some additives is performed the formation of the active transition metal-carbon bond by oxidative addition is also possible, e.g. in the case of such additives as alkylhalogenides or diazocompounds according to the schemes ... 

The propagation centers also react with the inhibitors inevitably present in the reaction medium. The interaction with coordination inhibitors may stabilize the transition metal-carbon bond, as the elimination of the coordinative insufficiency of the transition metal ion makes it impossible for the metal-carbon bond to rupture through the mechanism of the /3-hydride shift. 

The preparation of carbonylmetals by treating a transition metal halide either with carbon monoxide and zinc, or with iron pentacarbonyl is well-known and smooth. However, a violent eruptive reaction occurs if a methanolic solution of a cobalt halide, a rhodium halide or a ruthenium halide is treated with both zinc and iron pentacarbonyl. 

Organometallic chemistry has only recently been studied with the kind of intensity merited by its growing value to industrial chemistry. In the last fifteen years processes have been developed in which the transition metal carbon bond is an essential part of the structure of the catalysts used. Our knowledge of the mechanisms by which many of these reactions occur, however, is rather limited. This is because the majority of useful catalysts for practical reasons are heterogeneous and therefore unsuitable... 

Heating by means of single-mode microwave irradiation enables readily adjustable and controlled bulk heating which can be performed safely and with very low energy consumption. The synthetic chemist of today can take advantage of the unique carbon-carbon bond formation reactions afforded by organometallic chemistry and make the reaction happen in seconds or minutes, an important feat, because many transition-metal-catalyzed reactions are time-consuming. 

Pampus and co-workers (65) established the relative reactivity of a series of olefins to be 1-butene > 2-butene > isobutylene. This order of reactivity has been confirmed by others, and exactly parallels the reported order of stability of transition metal (Rh) complexes with these olefins (66), thus clearly implicating precomplexation of the olefin with the transition metal prior to metathesis. On a limited scale, Schrock observed a similar order of reactivity for olefins in reactions with (175-C5H5 )TaCl2[=CH(CH3 )3 ], which is known to possess a nucleophilic car-bene carbon (64). This complex also provides the requisite empty coordination site needed for precomplexation. In that study, cyclopropanes or metathesis olefins were not observed as products. 

Photochemical or thermal extrusion of molecular nitrogen from ot-diazocarbonyl compounds generates a-carbonylcarbenes. These transient species possess a resonance contribution from a 1,3-dipolar (303, Scheme 8.74) or 1,3-diradical form, depending on their spin state. The three-atom moiety has been trapped in a [3 + 2] cycloaddition fashion, but this reaction is rare because of the predominance of a fast rearrangement of the ketocarbene into a ketene intermediate. There are a steadily increasing number of transition metal catalyzed reactions of diazocarbonyl compounds with carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom double bonds, that, instead of affording three-membered rings, furnish hve-membered heterocycles which... 

In general, reactive carbon electrophiles have been shown to react preferentially at the nitrogen atoms of the purine bicycle (see Section 10.11.5.2.1). However, 9-(2,3,5-tris-0-/r /T-butyldimethylsilyl)-a-D-ribofuranosyl-6-chloro-2-(tri-butylstannyOpurine reacted with benzoyl chloride to substitute the 2-tributylstannyl group (PhCOCl, pyridine, toluene, 60% yield) <1997JOC6833>. Indirect C-alkylations have been achieved through deprotonation and alkylation see Section 10.11.5.3.4. The major routes to (7-alkyl and (7-aryl substitution are through nucleophilic displacement or transition metal-catalyzed reactions of halopurines see Sections 10.11.7.4.1 and 10.11.7.4.2. 

Metal-Carbon Compounds. Clear examples of olefin insertions into transition metal-carbon groups are rare. The obvious reaction of olefins with alkyl- or acyl-cobalt tetracarbonyls are slow, complicated, and incomplete under the usual laboratory conditions. Under high pressure at elevated temperatures, in the... 

The metal not discussed yet is iron. It appeared to be a rather inactive metal. The possible reason for this is that iron is, under a running skeletal reaction or under conditions when more difficult dehydrogenation/hydro-genation can occur, covered by carbon to such an extent that one can rather speak of Fe carbides being the catalyst here. Most likely, the same holds for Group III—VI transition metals. However, carbides (with an imperfect structure) of these metals are, in contrast to Fe, active in skeletal reactions. 

A number of transition metal complexes react with alkenes, alkynes and dienes to afford insertion products (see Volume 4, Part 3). A general problem is that the newly formed carbon-metal bond is usually quite reactive and can undergo a variety of transformations, such as -hydride elimination or another insertion reaction, before being trapped by an electrophile.200 Usually, a better stability and lower reactivity is observed if the first carbometallation step leads to a metallacycle. It is worthy to note that the carbometallation of perfluorinated alkenes and alkynes constitutes a large fraction of the substrates investigated with transition metal complexes.20015... 

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