Communications
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200703393
Fluorinated Macrocycles
Palladium Fluoro Complexes: Useful Tools To Access Organometallic
Metallamacrocycles**
Andreas Steffen, Thomas Braun,* Beate Neumann, and Hans-Georg Stammler
The remarkable reactivity and exceptional properties of d8
transition-metal fluoro complexes account for their role in the
synthesis of highly fluorinated organic building blocks and
provide novel synthetic pathways to unique coordination
compounds.[1,2] It has been demonstrated that fluoro com-
plexes can serve as fluorinating agents,[1,3] but they also
appear as intermediates in catalytic conversions,[1,2] for
instance in cross-coupling reactions. The fluoro ligand in an
intermediate fluoro species often exhibits higher reactivity
than a chloro or bromo ligand.[2] One striking example
4,4’-bipyridine (4,4’-bpy) under dissociation of NO3 to give
the macrocyclic compound [{Pd(en)(m-4,4’-bpy)}4][NO3]8.[6a]
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Comparable behavior of Pd F complexes has not yet been
reported.
Herein, we demonstrate the applicability of fluoride
exchange at palladium for the synthesis of organometallic
macrocycles; the latter comprise heteroaromatic rings as
spacer units between Pd centers. This approach provides new
opportunities for the synthesis of neutral macrocycles,
examples of which are scarce. We use this strategy to prepare
square and triangular molecules, which are stabilized by
tetrafluoropyridyl ligands. Comparable triangular compounds
have been referred to as “metallacalixarenes”.[6a,7,8]
Treatment of a solution of palladium fluoro complex 1
(Scheme 1) in THF with 1-trimethylsilyl-imidazole at 203 K
led to the formation of the imidazole derivative trans-[Pd(1-
C3N2H3)(4-C5NF4)(PiPr3)2] (2a), which is only stable below
283 K. Above this temperature, free phosphine and macro-
cycle 3a form. Palladacycle 3a was characterized by NMR
spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, elemental analysis, and X-
ray diffraction analysis. Single crystals of 3a were obtained
from a solution in benzene.[9] Both enantiomers of the chiral
compound 3a were found in the unit cell; one is shown in
Figure 1.
The palladium centers exhibit square-planar coordination
geometry, thus leading to a square macrocycle with C4
symmetry. The dihedral angle between the coordination
planes at the transition-metal centers is 31.18, whereas the
imidazole units are arranged almost perpendicular to the Pd
coordination planes. The diagonal Pd···Pd distance is 8.763 ,
and the separation of two Pd atoms on the same edge is
6.197 . The stacking of the molecules leads to a channel
arrangement in the solid state (see the Supporting
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involves the activation of a C F bond of 2,4,6-trifluoro-5-
chloropyrimidine in the presence of a thermodynamically
weaker C Cl bond at {Ni(PPh3)2}.[2a] Only the resulting nickel
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fluoro complex shows catalytic activity towards C C coupling
reactions with aryl boronic acids, whereas the chloro analogue
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does not. Comparable behavior has been found for a C Si
coupling reaction at a palladium center.[2c] In this case, a
disilane is employed to replace the fluoro ligand through the
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formation of a strong Si F bond. V. V. Grushin and co-
workers found that palladium halide complexes of the type
trans-[PdX(Ph)(PPh3)2] (X = Cl, Br, I) undergo CO insertion
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into the M C bond, but no reductive elimination occurred.
When trans-[PdF(Ph)(PPh3)2] is used, trans-[PdF(PhCO)-
(PPh3)2] forms under CO atmosphere. This complex is only
stable up to 108C, and reductive elimination of benzoyl
fluoride is reported.[4] Access to d8 transition-metal fluoro
complexes is provided by reaction of an appropriate precursor
complex with a fluoride source, such as HF, AgF, XeF2,
Me3SnF, or ClF, or by activation of a carbon–fluorine bond at
a transition-metal center.[1a–e,2,4,5] Pd complexes bearing
anionic ligands, such as chloro, nitrato, or triflato ligands,
have been found to undergo self-assembly in the presence of
ligands that can serve as bridging units.[6] For example,
[Pd(en)(NO3)2] (en = ethylenediamine) readily reacts with
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Information). The C N bond lengths of the imidazole units
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are all in the same range. The equal N2 C17 and N3 C17
bond lengths and the angle N2-C17-N3 of 112.98, which is
widened compared to the free heterocycle, suggest that, to a
degree, electron density is delocalized through the ring.[10]
Although the [{Pd}4(1-C3N2H3)4] ({Pd} = Pd(4-C5NF4)(PiPr3))
species 3a is stable in the solid state as well as in solution, it
undergoes fragmentation in MALDI-TOF experiments even
at low laser intensities, giving a signal at m/z 1868.1, which
corresponds to [3aÀC3N2H3]+ according to the isotope
pattern.[11] Further fragments have been found at m/z 1384.6
[{Pd}3(C3N2H3)2]+ and m/z 900.4 [{Pd}2(C3N2H3)]+.
The same synthetic strategy as for the preparation of 2a
can be employed to obtain trans-[Pd(1-C2N3H2)(4-C5NF4)-
(PiPr3)2] (2b) by addition of trimethylsilyltriazole to 1
(Scheme 1). Compound 2b shows a similar behavior as 2a,
and conversion to the tetrameric triazole species 3b and free
[*] A. Steffen, Prof. Dr. T. Braun
Institut für Chemie
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Brook-Taylor-Strasse 2, 12489 Berlin (Germany)
Fax: (+49)30-2093-6939
E-mail: thomas.braun@chemie.hu-berlin.de
B. Neumann, Dr. H.-G. Stammler
Fakultät für Chemie
Universität Bielefeld
Postfach 100131, 33501 Bielefeld (Germany)
[**] We would like to acknowledge the Deutsche Forschungsgemein-
schaft and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for financial
support. We thank Ms. A. Penner and Dr. B. Ziemer for the help with
the crystal structure analysis of 3c.
Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW
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Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 8674 –8678
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