Alkyl Group Transfer from Rhodium(I) to Electrophilic Reagents; Inducement by a Tertiary Phosphine

Article abstract of DOI:10.1039/c39890001008

Although the compound RhMe(CO) (1) is normally inert to methyl iodide, chlorotrimethyltin and acetone, it reacts in the presence of trimethylphosphine with (a) methyl iodide to form the cationic complex >(+) (2), and methane, and ethylene but not ethane, (b) chlorotrimethyltin to form (2) and tetramethyltin, and (c) acetone to form (2) and t-butoxide; the role of the trimethylphosphine seems to involve substituting one arm of the triphosphine, thus rendering the Rh-Me moiety more reactive towards electrophilic reagents.

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