摘要:
This paper outlines synthetic procedures that result in the successful generation of the long-sought oxo complex [Cp*2Zr = O] and its sulfur analogue [Cp*2Zr = S]. The generation of [Cp*2Zr = O] has been accomplished at 160-degrees-C by alpha-elimination of benzene from Cp*2Zr(Ph)(OH) (1) and at room temperature by deprotonation of Cp*2Zr(OH)(OSO2CF3) with KN(SiMe3)2. The oxo species reacts with diphenylacetylene and di-p-tolylacetylene to give oxametallacyclobutenes Cp*2Zr(OC(Ph) = C(Ph)) (5a) and (Cp*2Zr(OC-(Tol) = C(Tol)) (5b), which are stable at room temperature. At the elevated temperatures necessary for the alpha-elimination of benzene from 1, however, these complexes rearrange to ortho-metalated oxametallacycles Cp*2Zr(OC(o-C6H4) = C(Ph)(H)) (2a) and Cp*2Zr(OC(o-C6H4CH3) = C(Tol)(H)) (2b), and these are the products isolated in the 160-degrees-C thermolysis of 1. Similarly, generation of [Cp*2Zr = O] at 160-degrees-C in the presence of 1,4-diphenyl-1,3-butadiyne yields the complex metallacycle (eta-5-C5(CH3)5)Zr(OC(Ph) = C(H)- = C (Ph)(eta-5-C5(CH3)4CH2)) (3), in which one Cp* ligand has been integrated into the coordinated enolate moiety. In the presence of excess benzonitrile at both high and low temperature the oxo complex yields the six-membered oxaazametallacycle Cp*2Zr(OC(Ph) = NC(Ph) = N) (4a), formed from insertion of 2 equiv of PhCN into the Zr = O fragment. The connectivities of complexes 2a, 3, and 4a were confirmed by X-ray structure determinations. At room temperature, reaction of [Cp*2Zr = O] with the unsymmetrical alkyne 1-phenyl-1-propyne proceeds regiospecifically, yielding only the metallacycle Cp*2Zr(OC(Me) = C(Ph)) (5d), having the phenyl substituent located alpha to the metal center; this material gives phenylacetone upon hydrolysis. Kinetic, alkyne-exchange, and isotope-labeling studies support a mechanism involving direct elimination of benzene from 1 in the thermal generation of [Cp*2Zr = O]. They also suggest that the rearrangement of the oxametallacyclobutenes 5a,b may proceed by initial reversion of the metallacycle to an oxo-alkyne complex followed by attack of oxygen on the phenyl ring of the alkyne. The isoelectronic sulfido complex [Cp*2Zr = S] is generated by room temperature dehydrohalogenation of Cp*2Zr(SH)(I) (10). In analogy to the earlier generated imido complexes [Cp2Zr = N-R], the sulifido complex can be stabilized and isolated in pure form as the dative ligand adduct [Cp*2(L)Zr = S] (L = pyridine (11a), 4-tert-butylpyridine (11b)). An X-ray structure determination of 11b confirmed the unusual Zr = S bonding mode and represents the first example of this structural type among group 4 metals. Like its oxo analogue, the Zr = S multiply bonded linkage reacts with nitriles and alkynes to form the thiaazametallacycle Cp*2Zr(SC(Ph) = NC(Ph) = N) (12) and the thiametallacyclobutenes Cp*2Zr(SC(R) = C(R)) (13a-c, R = Et, Ph, Tol). The latter structural type was confirmed by an X-ray structure determination of 13b. The thiametallacyclobutenes readily revert to the monomeric terminal sulfido complexes 11 and free alkyne by reaction of the metallacyclobutene with pyridine; with appropriate alkynes and dative ligands, equilibria between the thiametallacyclobutenes and ligand-trapped sulfido complexes can be established and directly observed by NMR spectrometry in solution.Judging from these observations, the sulfido ligand appears to be the most stable linkage in the Zr = X (X = NR, O, S) series.