摘要:
The zirconium methylidene complex (PNP)-Zr=CH2(OAr) (1; PNP = N[2-(PPr2)-Pr-i-4-methylphenyl](2)(-), Ar = 2,6-(Pr2C6H3)-Pr-i), prepared from photolysis of (PNP)Zr-(CH3)(2)(OAr), can engage in incomplete and complete methylidene group transfer reactions with CO, CDCl3, cyclododecanone, and benzophenone. When CO was treated with 1, methylenation occurred via the putative metalloketene adduct [(PNP)Zr(OCCH2)(OAr], which ultimately afforded the C-C coupled enolate dimer [(PNP)Zr-(OAr)](2)(OCH2C=CCH2O) (2). Addition of CDCl3 to 1 rapidly resulted in formation of (PNP)ZrCl2(OAr) (3) along with liberation of d(1)-vinyl chloride, H2C=CDCl. Complex 3 could be readily prepared independently from (PNP)ZrCl3 and 1 equiv of NaOAr. Wittig reactivity was observed between 1 and cyclododecanone to afford methylenecyclododecane. Similarly, treating 1 with the ketone OCPh2 resulted in methylenation of the ortho position followed by tautomerization to produce the chelated alkyloxide complex (PNP)Zr(OAO[OCHPh(C6H4)-CH2] (4). In addition to the isolation of 4, complex 1 also engages in a cross-metathesis reaction involving the methylidene and ketone oxygen of benzophenone, as well as in olefin metathesis involving the formed olefin H2C=CPh2. Complexes 2-4 have been fully characterized, including solid-state structural analysis, and proposed mechanisms for the formation of species such as 2-4 are presented and discussed.