Self-cyclisation versus diynediol-promoted ring closure during the construction of coordinated crown-type macrocycles
摘要:
Treatment of [Co-2(CO)(6) (mu-eta(2)-HOCH2C CCH2OH)] (1a) with a catalytic quantity of HBF4 .OEt2 affords [{CO2(CO)(6)}(2) {cyclo-mu-eta(2) :mu-eta(2)-OCH2C CCH2OCH2C CCH2-}] (2) and [{CO2(CO)(6)}(3) {cyclo-mu-eta(2) :mu-eta(2):mu-eta(2)-OCH2C CCH2OCH2C CCH2OCH2C CCH2-}](3), in which cyclodimerisation and cyclotrimerisation of la has occurred, respectively. The molecular structures of 2 and 3 reveal non-bonding oxygen-oxygen separations within the macrocycles of 4.716 angstrom (2) and 3.968-5.045 angstrom (3). On the other hand, introduction of one equivalent of the cyclohexyl-substituted diyne-diol, (1-HO-cyclo-C6H10)C CC C(1-HO-cyclo-C6H10), to the reaction furnishes the macrocyclic complexes [{Co-2(Co)(6))(2)} {cyclo-mu-eta(2) :mu-eta(2)-OCH2C CCH2OCH2C CCH2C CCH2O(cyclo-C6H10)-}] (4) and [{CO2(CO)(6)}(3){cyclo-mu-eta(2):mu-eta(2):mu-eta(2)-OCH2C CCH2OCH2C CCH2OCH2C CCH2O(cyclo-1-C6H10)-}] (5), in which the chain ends of the rigid 1,3-diyne unit are linked by either di- or tri-merised derivatives of Ia. Also isolated in the reaction is the open-chain species [{Co-2(Co)(6))(2)}(mu-eta(2):mu-eta(2)-HOCH2C CCH2O)(cyclo-1-C6H10)C2C2(cyclo-1-C6H10)-OCH2C CCH2OH)] (6). Inspection of the molecular structure of 4 reveals a 17-membered ring with the non-bonding oxygen-oxygen separations ranging from 4.958 to 7.257 angstrom. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.