Acetylacetonato, pentachlorophenolato and carboxylato rhodium(I) complexes and their reactivity in the C–C coupling reaction of olefins and diazoalkanes
作者:Helmut Werner、Norbert Mahr、Michael E. Schneider、Marco Bosch、Justin Wolf
DOI:10.1016/j.poly.2004.06.009
日期:2004.11
The acetylacetonato complexes [Rh(kappa(2)-O-O)(C2H4)(PiPr(3))] (O-O=acac 5, acac-f(3) 6, acac-f(6) 7) and [Rh(kappa(2)-O-O)(PiPr(3))(2)] (O-O=acac 10, acac-f(6) 11) were prepared from either [Rh(kappa(2)-O-O)(C2H4)(2)] (2-4), [Rh(eta(3)-C3H5)(PiPr(3))(2)] (8) or [RhCl(PiPr(3))(2)](2) (9) as the starting materials. While attempts to obtain the diazoalkane derivatives [Rh(kappa(2)-O-O)(N2CR2)(PiPr(3))] (R=Ph, p-Tol) failed, treatment of 5-7 with N2CC4Cl4 gave the corresponding substitution products [Rh(kappa(2)-O-O)(N2CC4Cl4)(PiPr(3))] (12-14) in good yields. The reaction of 8 with C6Cl5OH afforded the square-planar complex [Rh(kappa(2)-OC6Cl5)(PiPr(3))(2)] (15), in which the pentachlorophenolato ligand is coordinated in a chelating fashion. From 15 and C2H4, O-2 and N2CPh2 the 1:1 adducts trans-[Rh(kappa(1)-OC6Cl5)(L)(PiPr(3))(2)] (16-18) were prepared. Compound 15 catalyzes the reaction of ethene with diaryldiazomethanes to give, instead of 1, 1 -diarylcyclopropanes, the isomeric olefins R2C=CHCH3 (R = C6H5 1b, p-C6H4Me 19, p-C(6)H(4)Cl20) as the main products. The carboxylato, complexes [Rh(kappa(2)-O2CMe)(PiPr(3))(2)] (21) and [Rh(kappa(2)-O2CCF3)(PiPr(3))(2)] (25) react with N2CRR' (R = R'= C4Cl4; R=R'=Ph; R=H, Ph, R'=C(O)Ph) by opening the chelate bond to give the four-coordinate 1:1 adducts trans-[Rh(kappa(1)-O2CMe)(N2CRR')(PiPr(3))(2)] (22-24) and trans-[Rh(kappa(1)-O2CCF3)(N2CRR')(PiPr(3))(2)](26-28), respectively. Treatment of 25 with PhCHN2 produced the dinitrogen complex trans- [Rh (kappa(1)-O2CCF3)(N-2)(PiPr(3))(2)] (29). In contrast to the trifluoracetato compound 25, which catalyzes the reaction of ethene and diaryldiazomethanes N2CRR' to give mainly the trisubstituted olefins R'RC=CHCH3, the corresponding reaction of C2H4 and N2CRR' with acetato complex 21 as the catalyst affords the isomeric ethene derivatives CH2=CHCHRR' as the major products. A mechanism for this unexpected C-C coupling reaction is discussed. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.