作者:Craig E. Dixon、Jeffrey A. Cooke、Kim M. Baines
DOI:10.1021/om970638s
日期:1997.12.1
The addition reactions of tetramesitylgermasilene with methyl vinyl ketone (MVK), crotonaldehyde, and acrylonitrile were studied. When tetramesitylgermasilene was allowed to react with MVK, [2 + 4] cycloaddition and nonregioselective carbonyl [2 + 2] cycloaddition products were isolated. When tetramesitylgermasilene was allowed to react with crotonaldehyde, the carbonyl [2 + 2] adduct was produced exclusively. The regiochemistry was not determined. The addition of acrylonitrile to tetramesitylgermasilene yielded a germasilacyclobutane, which is the formal [2 + 2] cycloadduct between the germasilene and the C-C double bond of acrylonitrile. Tetramesityldisilene was also found to yield a formal [2 + 2] adduct with acrylonitrile. However, tetramesityldigermene rearranges to a germylgermylene at a faster rate than acrylonitrile addition.