Zirconocene dichloride

Zirconocene dichloride (bis[cyclopentadienyl]zirconium dichloride) [1291-32-3] M 292.3, m 242-245 , 248 . Purified by recrystn from CHCI3 or xylene, and dried in vacuum. H NMR (CDCI3) 8 6.52 from MeaSi. Store in the dark under N2 as it is moisture sensitive. [IR, NMR, MS Aust J Chem 18 173 7965 method of J Am Chem Soc 81 1364 7959 and references in the previous entry.]... 

Ethylene-bridged bis-indenyl zirconocene dichloride-methylalu-moxane system. 

Zirconocene dichloride 121 derived from (l-phenylethyl)cyclopentadienyl ligand is formed as a mixture of diastereomers from which the racemic form can be isolated by fractional crystallization. This complex was studied by X-ray diffraction methods and revealed a virtually chiral C2-symmetrical conformation in which the chiral ring-substituents are arranged in a synclinal position relative to the five-membered ring. It was proposed that this conformation is preserved in solution. Using 121 as catalyst the influence of double stereodifferentiation during isospecific polymerization of propylene (Eq. 32) was demonstrated for the first time [142],... 

The hydroalumination of terminal alkenes by LiAlH4 catalyzed by titanocene and zirconocene dichloride, CpjTiCh and CpjZrCh, respectively, has been reported by Isagawa [16] and Sato [14]. Again, the titartium compound proved to be more active... 

The bis-zirconocene complex CpjClZrCHjCHjZrCpjCl has been isolated upon double hydrozirconation of acetylene with 1 [102]. Recently, the preparation of a heterogeneous bis-zirconocene catalyst was succesfully achieved from zirconocene dichloride complexes containing alkenyl or alkynyl substituents [224]. 

Addition of zirconocene to unsymmetric acetylenes is often regiospe-cific. Thus the reaction of 1-trimethylsilyl-l-propyne (50) with zirconocene dichloride and magnesium amalgam gives the zirconocycle 51, where the large trimethylsilyl groups are adjacent to zirconium.21 Iodination of 51 affords diiodide 52, which has been converted to the corresponding di-stibaferrocene 55 and dibismaferrocene 56. 

Zirconocene dichloride is purchased train Boulder Scientific Co., and used without any further purification. 

Schwartz s Reagent3 is available commercially (from the Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc.) although it is quite expensive. Two literature preparations of this important reagent are available. The first utilizes LiAI(OtBu)3H to reduce zirconocene dichloride.4 The second method utilizes sodium bis(2-methoxyethoxy) aluminum hydride (RED-AL) as the reducing agent.2a The disadvantages of these procedures have been discussed.3... 

Zirconocene dichloride Zirconium, dichloro-jc-cyclopentadienyl- (8)- Zirconium, dichlorobis(r 5-2,4-cyclopentadien-1-yl)- (9) (1291-32-3)... 

Heptadiene and zirconocene, generated from zirconocene dichloride and butyllithium, form an intermediate, presumably the metallocycle 222, which is transformed into fraws-l,2-di(bromomethyl)cyclopentane (223) by the action of bromine at —78°C. In contrast, a similar reaction of 1,6-heptadene with Cp ZrCl (Cp = pentamethylcyclopentadienyl) (from Cp ZrCl3 and sodium amalgam) gives solely the c -isomer 225 via the complex 224 (equation 114)117. 

Zirconocene dichloride has been reported to serve as catalyst for the addition of dialkyl phosphorochloridates across the triple bond of terminal alkynes.159 DIBAL is used with the terminal alkyne system to generate the dialkyl 1-alkenylphosphonate products. 

A useful synthesis of alkynes and particularly of terminal ( )-enynes results from the insertion of the readily formed ( )-l,2-dichloro-l-lithioethene (68) into organozirconocene chlorides (Scheme 3.17). An intermediate ( )-2-chloroalkenyl zirconium species 69 undergoes anti-elimination of zirconocene dichloride to yield terminal alkynes 70 [38]. 

Chiral C2-symmetric ansa-metallocenes, also referred to as bridged metallocenes, find extensive use as catalysts that effect asymmetric C—C bond-forming transformations [4]. In general, bridged ethylene(bis(tetrahydroindenyl))zirconocene dichloride ((ebthi)ZrCl2) 1 or its derived binaphtholate ((ebthi)Zrbinol) 2 [5] and related derivatives thereof have been extensively utilized in the development of a variety of catalytic asymmetric alkene alkylations. 

Scheme 8.31. Ethylalumination with AlEt3, catalyzed by zirconocene dichloride.

Reactions of various terminal alkenes, some of them bearing heteroatom substituents, with Me3Al and a catalytic amount of Erker s chiral neomenthylindene-zirconocene dichloride provide, after oxidation with 02, 2-methyl-l-alkanols in high yields with up to 85% ee [76] (Scheme 8.37). 

This epoxide to aldehyde rearrangement was postulated to be the first step in the silver-mediated reaction of alkylzirconocene chlorides with epoxides, in which the aldehyde is subsequently alkylated by the alkylzirconocene species (cf. Scheme 8.44) [56], In a control experiment, it was shown that zirconocene dichloride (1 equivalent or less) and silver (catalytic amounts) do indeed induce the rearrangement of an epoxide to an aldehyde very quickly. 

The stereospecific construction of the trisubstituted double bond of the side chain at C-1 of carbazomadurins A (253) and B (254) was achieved using Negishi s zirconium-catalyzed carboalumination of alkynes 758 and 763, respectively. Reaction of 5-methyl-l-hexyne (758) with trimethylalane in the presence of zirconocene dichloride, followed by the addition of iodine, afforded the vinyl iodide 759 with the desired E-configuration of the double bond. Halogen-metal exchange with ferf-butyllithium, and reaction of the intermediate vinyllithium compound with tributyltin chloride, provided the vinylstannane 751a (603) (Scheme 5.79). 

Titanocene and zirconocene dichlorides (Cp2MtCl2 with Mt = Ti, Zr) were the first metallocenes studied [Breslow and Newburg, 1957 Natta et al., 1957a], The metallocene initiators, like the traditional Ziegler-Natta initiators, require activation by a Lewis acid coinitiator, sometimes called an activator. AIRCI2 and A1R3 were used initially, but the result was initiator systems with low activity for ethylene polymerization and no activity in a-olefin polymerization. The use of methylaluminoxane (MAO), [A1(CH3)0] , resulted in greatly improved activity for ethylene polymerization [Sinn and Kaminsky, 1980], The properties of MAO are discussed in Sec. 8-5g. MAO has two functions alkylation of a transition metal-chloride bond followed by abstraction of the second chloride to yield a metallocenium... 

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