Synthesis and carbonylation of some α-alkoxyalkyl cobalt complexes, [RCH(or′)CO(CO)3PPh3] (R = H, CH3; R′ = Me, Et)
作者:Chung C. Tso、Alan R. Cutler
DOI:10.1016/s0277-5387(00)81621-6
日期:1993.1
Cobalt alpha-alkoxyalkyl compounds [ROCH2Co(CO)3PPh3] (R = Me, Et) and [CH3(EtO)CHCo(CO)3PPh3] have been synthesized and transformed to their acyl derivatives, [R'CH(OR)C(O)CO(CO)3PPh3] (R' = H, CH3), using 1 atm. of CO. The alpha-ethoxyethyl complex [CH3(EtO)CHCO(CO)3PPh3] was generated by treating the acetyl compound [CH3C(O)CO(CO)3PPh3] With triethyloxonium hexafluorophosphate in CH2Cl2 and then reducing with LiHBEt3. The thermal instability of the resulting [CH3(EtO) CHCO(CO)3PPh3] compound precluded its full characterization, although it transformed into its acyl derivative in 82% isolated yield. The ethoxycarbene intermediate[CH3(EtO)C= CO(CO)3PPh3]+PF6-, the two alkoxymethyl complexes and the three acyl complexes have been characterized by elemental analysis and IR and NMR (H-1, C-13, P-31) spectroscopy. Attempts to convert the alpha-alkoxyacyl complexes [ROCH2C(O)CO(CO)3PPh3] and [CH3(EtO)CHC(O)Co(CO)3PPh3] into their alkoxycarbene compounds with a variety of alkylating agents instead afforded [Co(CO),(PPh3)2]+.