Synthesis of unsymmetrical ruthenocenes by gas phase electrocyclic reactions of pentadienylruthenium complexes
作者:Rein U. Kirss、Ahadul Quazi、Charles H. Lake、Melvyn Rowen Churchill
DOI:10.1021/om00034a058
日期:1993.10
Reduction of RuCl3.3H2O with zinc in the presence of 5,5-dimethylcyclohexadiene yields bis(6,6-dimethylcyclohexadienyl)ruthenium (3). Similar reactions of [Cp*RuCl2]n with 2,4-di-tert-butylpentadiene and 5,5-dimethylcyclohexadiene yield two new ruthenium pentadienyl compounds Cp*Ru(2,4-di-tert-butylpentadienyl) (4) and Cp*Ru(eta5-6,6-dimethylcyclohexadienyl) (5), respectively. Gas phase pyrolysis of Cp*Ru(eta5-2,4-dimethylpentadienyl) (1), Cp*Ru(eta5-cyclooctadienyl) (2), Cp*Ru(2,4-di-tert-butylpentadienyl) (4), and bis(eta-2,4-dimethylpentadienyl)ruthenium (9) at 400-450-degrees-C led to electrocyclic reaction and yielded Cp*Ru(eta5-1,3-dimethylcyclopentadienyl) (6), Cp*Ru(eta5-1,2-dihydropentalenyl) (7), Cp*Ru(eta5-1,3-di-tert-butylcyclopentadienyl) (8), and Ru(eta5-1,3-dimethylcyclopentadienyl) (11), respectively. Ru(eta5-6,6-dimethylcyclohexadienyl)2 (3) was not volatile under these conditions while Cp*Ru(eta5-6,6-dimethylcyclohexadienyl) (5) survived the pyrolysis unchanged. Single crystal X-ray diffraction studies were completed on 9 and 11. Monoclinic 9 crystallized in the P2(1)/c space group with a = 8.5945(17) angstrom, b = 13.3257(31) angstrom, c = 12.0851(22) angstrom, and beta = 110.670(14)degrees. Monoclinic 11 crystallized in the P2(1)/n space group with a = 10.332(3) angstrom, b = 8.807(2) angstrom, c = 13.884(3) angstrom, and beta = 106.27(2)degrees.