Tungsten complex compounds, anions

Anionic Complexes. Compounds of tungsten with acid anions other than haUdes and oxyhaUdes are relatively few in number, and are known only in the form of complex salts. A number of salts containing hexavalent tungsten are known. Potassium octafluorotungstate [57300-87-5] K WFg, can be prepared by the action of KI on W(CO)g in an IF medium. The addition of tungstates to aqueous hydrofluoric acid gives salts that are mostly of the type M(I)2(W2F. Similarly, double salts of tungsten oxydichloride are known. 

The reaction of alkynyllithium compounds with alkoxycarbene tungsten complexes leads to anionic propargyl tungsten complexes (Figure 2.33 see also Figure 3.9). These intermediates are stable at low temperatures and react upon Lewis acid catalysis with aldehydes or A -sulfonyl imines to yield five-membered heterocycles [280]. Oxidative methoxycarbonylation [375] of the intermediate vinyl tungsten complex, followed by elimination of methanol leads to pyrroles or furanes (Figure 2.33 Entry 6, Table 2.22). 

Some alkynylcarbyne tungsten complexes containing the anion of (34) have been synthesized these constitute good starting compounds for chain extension and for the synthesis of binuclear complexes with an odd number of bridging carbon atoms. The high thermal stability of the... 

Since the late seventies efforts were directed toward the development of well-defined catalysts that would be active without addition of additives or further modification. A wide variety of tungsten and molybdenum alkylidene complexes have been prepared. Many of them show some activity, but only few are good catalysts. The synthesis is often not straightforward and a range of synthetic procedures varying solvents, alkylating reagents, anions, and alkylidene moieties have to be tried before a desired compound will be obtained. 

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