Dialkyl-μ-ethylidene-μ-methylene-bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)-dirhodium complexes: synthesis, spectra and decomposition reactions
作者:Zhi-Qiang Wang、Jesús Martínez、Peter M. Maitlis
DOI:10.1016/s0020-1693(98)00054-1
日期:1998.10
The dialkyl-mu-ethylidene-mu-methylene-bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)-dirhodium complexes [(C5Me5)Rh}(2)(mu-CH2) (mu-CHMe)-(R)(2)] (4, R = Me; 5, Et; 6, n-Bu; 7, CH=CH2; and 8, Z-CH=CHMe) have been prepared from RMgBr and [(C5Me5)Rh}(2)(mu-CH2)-(mu-CHMe) (X)(2)] (2, X = Cl; 3, X = Br). Structures deduced from the NMR spectra show that the dialkyl complexes can exist In one trans and two cis forms. The decomposition of the dimethyl complex 4 is compared with that of the related di-mu-methylene complex; it reacts readily (30 degrees C, MeCN solution) in the presence of one-electron oxidisers to give propene and methane and a Little ethene and some butenes. Mass-spectrometric analysis of the C-13 labelling in the organics originating from [(C5Me5)Rh}(2)(mu-CH2) (mu-CHMe) ((CH3)-C-13)(2)] shows that methane derives from the Rh-Me, ethene half from the ethylidene and half from coupling of Rh-methyl and a bridging methylene, while the propene arises almost entirely from the ethylidene and a rhodium methyl. The butenes come from coupling of ethylidene, methylene and a Rh-methyl, but only quite small amounts are formed; thus C + C coupling is the major decomposition path for the mu-ethylidenes, in contrast to the di-mu-methylene complexes where C + C + C coupling predominates. The divinyl complex [(C5Me5)Rh}(2)(mu-CH2) (mu-CHMe)-(CH=CH2)(2)] also underwent internal C + C coupling on reaction with AgBF4 in MeCN to give a mixture of the allyl and methylallyl cations [(C5Me5)Rh(eta(3)-CH2CHCHR) (MeCN)](divided by) (10, R = H; 11, R = Me). (C) 1998 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.