Isocyanide insertion chemistry. Synthesis and structural characterization of bridging imidoyl complexes of nickel and amide formation by intramolecular coupling of acyl and imidoyl functionalities
作者:Juan Campora、Enrique Gutierrez、Angeles Monge、Manuel L. Poveda、Caridad Ruiz、Ernesto Carmona
DOI:10.1021/om00034a039
日期:1993.10
The binuclear pseudoallyl complex trans-(Me3P)BrNi(mu2-eta3:eta1-CH2-o-C6H4)NiBr(PMe3)2 (1) inserts selectively 1 equiv of CNXy (Xy = 2,6-dimethylphenyl) into the Ni-benzylic bond with formation of the cyclic complex trans-(Me3P)2BrNi(C(NXy)CH2-o-C6H4)NiBr(PMe3) (2) that contains a bridging eta2-imidoyl ligand. The analogous reaction of 1 with CNBu(t) gives a related mu2,eta2-imidoyl species 3a which, in contrast to 2, exists in solution in thermodynamic equilibrium with its isomer tran-(Me3P)BrNi(eta2-C(NBut)CH2-o-C6H4)NiBr(PMe3)2 (3b), in which the imidoyl ligand is terminally bonded in a eta2 fashion to one of the nickel centers. Variable temperature NMR studies show 3b is the kinetic product of the insertion reaction and that the strongly solvent dependent equilibrium 3a half arrow right over half arrow left 3b is attained only at sufficiently high temperatures (ca. -20-degrees-C). At even higher temperatures (ca. 40-degrees-C), the 3a-3b mixtures convert into a third isomeric compound, trans-(Me3P)2Ni(C(NBut)C6H4-o-CH2)NiBr(PMe3) (4), in a process which formally corresponds to the deinsertion of CNBu(t) from the Ni-benzyl bond followed by reinsertion into the Ni-aryl moiety. In a rather complex reaction 2 interacts with CO to afford the mononuclear complex trans-Ni(C=CHC6H4C(O)NXy)Br(PMe3)2 (5) whose formation probably involves the intramolecular coupling of acyl and imidoyl functionalities. Hydrolytic cleavage of the Ni-C bond in 5 provides the corresponding N-aryl-1-isoquinolone 6. Compounds 2 and 3a, have been characterized by X-ray studies. 2 crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2(1)/n with a = 12.437(3) angstrom, b = 16.025(2) angstrom, c = 16.015(2) angstrom, beta = 101.47(1)degrees, and Z = 4. Crystals of 3a are also monoclinic, space group P2(1)/n, with a = 26.05(1) angstrom, b = 10.226(1) angstrom, c = 12.013(2) angstrom, beta = 93.54(12)degrees, and Z = 4. The mu2,eta2-imidoyl functionalities of both complexes exhibit similar structural characteristics.