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Organometallics 2002, 21, 1304-1307
Cyclop a lla d a ted Com p lexes w ith F u n ction a lized
Dip h osp h in es via Activa tion of Ch ela ted
1,1-Bis(d ip h en ylp h osp h in o)eth en e
Berta Teijido,† Alberto A. Ferna´ndez,† Margarita Lo´pez-Torres,† Antonio Sua´rez,†
J ose´ M. Vila,*,‡ Roberto Mosteiro,† and J esu´s J . Ferna´ndez*,†
Departamento de Quı´mica Fundamental, Universidad de A Corun˜a, 15071 A Corun˜a, Spain,
and Departamento de Quı´mica Inorga´nica, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela,
15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Received J uly 31, 2001
Summary: The reaction of 1 with 1,1-bis(diphenylphos-
phino)ethene (vdpp) gave the mononuclear cyclometa-
lated compound 2. The withdrawing effect of the cyclo-
palladated moiety suffices to polarize the CdCH2 double
bond to afford the addition products 3-8, by treatment
of complex 2 with primary aliphatic and aromatic
amines. The molecular structures of 2, 4, and 8 have
been determined by X-ray crystallography, showing that
the C-C distance in 4 and 8 has the expected single-
bond length upon addition.
Pd, Pt; X ) Me, AcO, Cl, I),9,10 and RuCl2,11 or even
complexes with an A-frame structure,12 activates the
double bond toward conjugate or Michael addition, due
to the additional polarizing effect of the metal center,
of a variety of nucleophiles (amines, hydrazines, acetyl-
ide anions, among others). To the best of our knowledge,
only one example of previous work on the attempted
activation of vdpp bonded to a cyclopalladated moiety,
in an 8-methylquinoline derivative, has been reported.13
In this paper we report that in complexes of the type
[(C-N)Pd(vdpp-P,P)]+X- nucleophilic addition to the
vinylidene double bond was made possible, and the
present work constitutes the synthesis and isolation of
the first pure addition products of cyclometalated
complexes with functionalized phosphines, which is
difficult to achieve through other procedures.
In tr od u ction
Tertiary mono- and polydentate phosphine ligands
play an important role in coordination and in organo-
metallic chemistry, owing to their ability to stabilize a
great variety of metal complexes in different oxidation
states as well as to their application in homogeneous
catalysis.1,2
Exp er im en ta l Section
Gen er a l Com m en ts. Solvents were dried prior to use
according to the standard methods.14 Ph2PC(dCH2)PPh2 (vdpp)
was prepared following to procedures described elsewhere.6
Chemicals were used as supplied from commercial sources.
Elemental analyses were carried out by the Servicios Gen-
erales de la Universidad de A Corun˜a using a Carlo-Erba
elemental analyzer (Model 1108). IR spectra were recorded as
Nujol mulls or polythene disks on a Perkin-Elmer 1330
spectrophotometer. NMR spectra were obtained as CDCl3
solutions and referenced to SiMe4 (1H) or 85% H3PO4 (31P{1H})
and were recorded on a Bruker AC 20005 spectrometer (200
The design and availability of new types of phosphines
may be accomplished in the absence of a metal, and the
new phosphine may then be integrated into the metal
coordination sphere, but it may also be convenient to
develop new ligands once the phosphine precursor has
been coordinated to the metal center(s). Typical ex-
amples of the latter case are the C-H acidity of the CH2
bridge in bis(diphenylphosphino)methane (dppm)3-5 or
the activated CdC group of 1,1-bis(diphenylphosphino)-
ethene (vdpp).
1
MHz for H, 81 MHz for 31P{1H}). Conductivity measurements
were made on a CRISON GLP 32 conductivimeter using 10-3
mol dm-3 solutions in dry acetonitrile. The synthesis of [Pd-
{3,4-[O(CH2)2O]C6H2C(H)dN(C6H11)-C6,N}(µ-CH3CO2)]2 was
reported in a recent paper from this laboratory.15
It has been reported that, although the vinylidene
double bond in uncoordinated vdpp is not susceptible
to nucleophilic attack,6 complexation to different metal
fragments, e.g. M(CO)4 (M ) Cr, Mo, W),7,8 MX2 (M )
[P d {3,4-[O(CH2)2O]C6H2C(H)dN(C6H11)-C6,N}{(P h 2P )2-
CHCH2(4-MeNC5H9)-P ,P ’}](P F 6) (3). To a solution of 2 (100
† Universidad de A Corun˜a.
‡ Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.
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