Cyclometalation of 1-aza-1,3-dienes in reactions with Ru3(CO)12 with formation of four- and five-membered azaruthenacycles
作者:Wilhelmus P. Mul、Cornelis J. Elsevier、Louis H. Polm、Kees Vrieze、Martin C. Zoutberg、Dick Heijdenrijk、Casper H. Stam
DOI:10.1021/om00053a030
日期:1991.7
The dinuclear compounds Ru2(CO)6[R1CH2CC(H)NR2] (2a-e) and Ru2(CO)6[R1C = C(H)CH2NR2] (3a,b,d) are the first isolable products during thermal reactions of Ru3(CO)12 with 1-aza 1,3-dienes R1C(H) = C(H)C(H) = Nr2 (R1,R2-MAD; R1, R2 = CH3, i-Pr (1a), CH3, c-Hex (1b), CH3, t-Bu (1c), C6H5, i-Pr (1d), C6H5, t-Bu (1e)). Both primary products 2 and 3 contain an isomerized MAD ligand that is part of a four- (2) or five-membered (3) azaruthenacycle. The molecular structure of 3a has been solved by X-ray crystallography: space group P1BAR, with a = 22.511 (4) angstrom, b = 13.740 (3) angstrom, c = 12.443 (2) angstrom, alpha = 103.21 (1)-degrees, beta = 113.00 (1)-degrees, gamma = 77.71 (1)-degrees, V = 851.3 angstrom, Z = 2, and R = 0.027 (R(w) = 0.042), for 2540 observed reflections. Compound 3a contains a formally 6-electron donating enyl-amido ligand and is mu-N,sigma-C-beta,eta-2-C = C-coordinated to a ''sawhorse'' Ru2(CO)6 core. In solution both 2 and 3 stereochemically nonrigid, due to ''windshield wiper'' motions of the asymmetrically bridged amido ligands. This process is more facile for 2 (DELTA-G double-ended-dagger almost-equal-to 35 kJ mol-1) than for 3 (DELTA-G double-ended-dagger almost-equal-to 62 kJ mol-1), and the DELTA-G double-ended-dagger value for 3 was shown to be independent of the R1 and R2 substituents. In refluxing heptane 2 and 3 are converted into the linear 66-electron cluster Ru4(CO)10[R1C = C(H)C(H) = NR2]2 (5a-e), albeit conversion of 2 into 5 proceeded very slowly and incompletely. Conversion of 3 into 5 proceeds via the intermediacy of (mu-H)Ru2(CO)5[R1C = C(H)C(H) = NR2] (4), which air-sensitive compound could be observed and isolated for R1, R2 = C6H5, i-Pr (4d). Reaction of 3a,b with CH3,R2-MAD or crotonaldehyde in heptane at 90-degrees-C results in the formation of Ru2(CO)6[CH2CC(H)C(H) = NR2] (6a,b). During this conversion the coordinated ligand is dehydrogenated whereas the added substrate acts as a hydrogen acceptor. For crotonaldehyde it was shown that the olefin moiety was hydrogenated chemoselectively. The formation of 2 and 3 out of Ru3(CO)12 and R1,R2-MAD and their conversion into 4-6 are discussed.