First-Row Transition Metal and Lithium Pyridine-ene-amide Complexes Exhibiting N- and C-Isomers and Ligand-Based Activation of Benzylic C–H Bonds
作者:Brian M. Lindley、Peter T. Wolczanski、Thomas R. Cundari、Emil B. Lobkovsky
DOI:10.1021/acs.organomet.5b00385
日期:2015.10.12
Ene-amines Z-3-(2-pyridyl)-1-aza(2,6-Pr-i(2)-Ph)propene, (pynac)H, and 2-(2-pyridy1)-1-aza(2,6-R,R'-Ph)propene, (pyEA-ArRR')H, were synthesized by condensation procedures; corresponding lithium or potassium ene-amides were prepared via standard deprotonation protocols. Addition of 2 equiv of (pynac)H to (Me3Si)(2)N}(2)Fe(THF) or 2 Li(pynac) to FeBr2(THF)(2) afforded (pynac)(2)Fe (1), while treatment of CrCl2(THE)(2), MnCl2, FeBr2(THF)(2), and CoCl(2)py(4) with 2 equiv of (pyEA-(ArPr2)-Pr-i)K afforded pseudotetrahedral (pyEA-(ArPr2)-Pr-i)(2)M (2-M, M = Cr, Mn, Fe) and (pyEA-(ArPr2)-Pr-i)(2)Co-py (2-Co-py). Diamagnetic (kappa-C,N-pyEA-(ArPr2)-Pr-i)(3)Co (3) was prepared in low yield (similar to 7%) from CoCl2, and its Co-C(sp(3)) linkages are unusually low in field strength. Reactivity studies yielded little clean reactivity, but thermolysis of 2-Co-py afforded the bis-indolamide derivative -kappa-N,N-N(C6H3(2-Pr-i)CMe2C(Me)(2-py)}(2)Co (5-Co), and related thermolyses of 2-M (M = Cr, Mn, Fe), conducted on NMA. tube scales, generated related 5-M (M = Cr, Mn, Fe) at roughly the same rates. This observation prompted thermolyses of (pyEA-ArRR')Li, which rearrange to their corresponding indolamides in >90% yields. Rate studies, accompanied by KLE and EIE observations, revealed that an initial hydrogen transfer is reversible and is likely to correspond to an anionic rearrangement, whereas C-C bond formation is rate-determining, as suggested by accompanying calculations. X-ray structure determinations of 1, 2-Fe, 2-Co-py, 3, and 5-Co were conducted.