Ancillary Ligand Control of the Regiochemistry of Coupling of 3,3-Dimethyl-1-butyne at Titanium Metal Centers
摘要:
The ambient-temperature sodium amalgam (2 Na per Ti) reduction of hydrocarbon solutions of [Cp(ArO)TiCl2] (ArO = 2,3,5,6-tetraphenylphenoxide) (1) in the presence of 3,3-dimethyl-1-butyne yields the 2,5-di(tert-butyl)titanacyclopentadiene compound [Cp(ArO)Ti(C4H2Bu2t -2,5)] (2). An X-ray diffraction study of 2 confirms the regiochemistry and shows carbon-carbon distances of 1.343(3) and 1.492(3) Angstrom for the double and single bonds, respectively. In contrast the analogous reaction of either [Cp2TiCl2] or [(ArO)(2)TiCl2] in the presence of 3,3-dimethyl-1-butyne yields the corresponding 2,4-di(tert-butyl)titanacyclopentadiene compounds. When 2 is heated at 100 degreesC for a few days in C6D6 solution, isomerization to the more stable 2,4-di(tertbutyl) regioisomer 3 is observed by NMR. An attempt is made to rationalize the regiochemistry of the kinetically formed titanacyclopentadiene in terms of steric factors within the intermediate bis(alkyne) complex.