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thus lies farther from the ring carbon atoms than all the other
F atoms.
Keywords: borate ligands · lewis acids · titanium · zirconium ·
zwitterions
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Compound 3, to our knowledge, is the first TiIII alkyne
complex, if one leaves out the very special cases of dimeric
[14]
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s,p-alkynyl-bridged complexes [{Cp2Ti(C CSiMe3)}2] and
[{Cp2Ti(C CSnMe3)}2].[16] In addition metallocene complexes
of alkynylboranates [RC C-BR3] have not been isolated or
characterized before, though they were assumed frequently as
reactive intermediates.[17,18] One example for this is the
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[1] H. H. Brintzinger, D. Fischer, R. Mülhaupt, B. Rieger, R.
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[2] a) W. E. Piers, Chem. Eur. J. 1998, 4, 13– 18; b) G. Erker, Acc.
Chem. Res. 2001, 34, 309 – 317, and references therein.
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B(C6F5)3-catalyzed C C coupling of alkynyl groups to 1,3-
butadiynes from zirconocene(iv)-bisalkynyl complexes
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Troyanov, A. V. Letov, L. I. Strunkina, M. Kh. Minacheva,
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Baumann, A. Spannenberg, V. B. Shur, U. Rosenthal, Chem.
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Baumann, A. Spannenberg, U. Rosenthal, A. V. Letov, K. A.
Lyssenko, A. A. Korlyukov, L. I. Strunkina, M. Kh. Minacheva,
V. B. Shur, Organometallics 2001, 20, 4072 – 4079.
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[Cp2Zr(C CR)2] described by Erker et al. which was pro-
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posed to proceed via the not-isolated [RC CB(C6F5)3]
complexes of zirconocene(iv) monoalkynyl cations
+ [17]
Complexes of the type [Cp2Zr{h2-
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[Cp2Zr(C CR)] .
RC2B(C6F5)2}] were isolated by Piers et al. from neutral
alkynylboranes RC C BR2 with metallocenes.[19] Com-
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pounds with alkynylboranates were proposed also by Wrack-
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meyer et al. in the reaction of stannylalkynes Me3SnC CR
with triethylborane (BEt3), where not-isolated intermediates,
+
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such as [Me3Sn] [RC CBEt3] react under formation of
[18]
¼
stannylolefines Me3SnC(Et) CR(BEt2).
[4] J. Ruwwe, G. Erker, R. Fröhlich, Angew. Chem. 1996, 108, 108 –
110; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1996, 35, 80 – 82.
[5] L. Somlai, W. E. Piers, unpublished results, citat [22] in ref. [2a].
[6] C. Lefeber, W. Baumann, A. Tillack, R. Kempe, H. Görls, U.
Rosenthal, Organometallics 1996, 15, 3486 – 3490.
The reaction which generates 3 may be understood as an
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oxidative Si C bond cleavage in Me3SiC CSiMe3 (in analogy
to ref. [12]) under formation of the s-alkynyl complex rac-
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[(ebthi)Ti(SiMe3)(C CSiMe3)], which gives (by reduction)
[7] P. Arndt, V. V. Burlakov, A. Spannenberg, W. Baumann, U.
Rosenthal, 50 Years Catalysis Research in Rostock, 2002, P24.
[8] Crystal structure of 1: crystal size 0.4 0.3 0.2 mm, colorless
Me3Si radicals and the dimeric s,p-alkynyl-bridged complex
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rac-[{(ebthi)Ti(C CSiMe3)}2] (in analogy to ref. [14]). With
B(C6F5)3, this complex would generate 3. Similar reaction
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prism, space group P1, triclinic, a = 13.186(3), b = 13.822(3), c =
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steps were described for
Me3SnC CSnMe3,
via
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16.300(3) , a = 85.44(3), b = 88.65(3), g = 83.00(3)8, V=
2939.0(11) 3, Z = 2, 1calcd = 1.270 gcmÀ3, 7137 reflections meas-
ured, 7137 were independent of symmetry and 3913 were
observed (I > 2s(I)), R1 = 0.058, wR2 (all data) = 0.178, 633
parameters.
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[Cp2Ti(SnMe3)(C CR)], to Me3Sn radicals and [{Cp2Ti(C C-
SnMe3)}2].[16] An NMR-spectroscopy investigation of the
reaction was prevented by the presence of paramagnetic
complexes, and the fate of the Me3Si group remains unknown.
Pure complex 3 crystallizes from the mixture but after
evaporation of all the n-hexane, only amorphous mixtures
of undefined compounds remained.
[9] D. Thomas, N. Peulecke, V. V. Burlakov, B. Heller, A. Spannen-
berg, R. Kempe, U. Rosenthal, R. Beckhaus, Z. Anorg. Allg.
Chem. 1998, 624, 919 – 924.
[10] a) S. Mansel, D. Thomas, C. Lefeber, D. Heller, R. Kempe, W.
Baumann, U. Rosenthal, Organometallics 1997, 16, 2886 – 2890;
b) X. Yang, C. L. Stern, T. J. Marks, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1994, 116,
10015 – 10031, and references therein; c) Y. Sun, R. E. v. H.
Spence, W. E. Piers, M. Parvez, G. P. A. Yap, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
1997, 119, 5132 – 5143.
[11] Crystal structure of 2: crystal size 0.4 0.3 0.2 mm, yellow
prism, space group P21/n, monoclinic, a = 9.331(2), b =
21.371(4), c = 18.188(4) , b = 95.04(3)8, V= 3612.9(13) 3,
Z = 4, 1calcd = 1.635 gcmÀ3, 12779 reflections measured, 4514
were independent of symmetry and 2629 were observed (I >
2s(I)), R1 = 0.044, wR2 (all data) = 0.112, 515 parameters.
[12] C. Müller, R. J. Lachicotte, W. D. Jones, Organometallics 2002,
21, 1190 – 1196, and references therein.
[13] Crystal structure of 3: crystal size 0.5 0.4 0.4 mm, dark green
prism, space group P21/n, monoclinic, a = 13.373(3), b =
12.206(2), c = 24.584(5) , b = 102.72(3)8, V= 3914.4(13) 3,
Z = 4, 1calcd = 1.564 gcmÀ3, 11406 reflections measured, 5892
were independent of symmetry and 3358 were observed (I >
2s(I)), R1 = 0.048, wR2 (all data) = 0.112, 546 parameters.
CCDC-195461 (1), CCDC-195462 (2), CCDC-195463( 3) con-
tain the supplementary crystallographic data for this paper.
c.uk/conts/retrieving.html (or from the Cambridge Crystallo-
graphic Data Centre, 12 Union Road, Cambridge CB21EZ, UK;
fax: (+ 44)1223-336-033; or deposit@ccdc.cam.ac.uk).
With utmost exclusion of moisture,[20a] the green complex
3 was formed in a yield of approximately 35% along with
trace amounts of blue crystals, which are a mixture of rac-
[{(ebthi)Ti}+{HO-B(C6F5)3}]À (4) and rac-[{(ebthi)Ti}+{H-B-
(C6F5)3}]À (5).[20b] If water is present (as the Brönsted acid
B(C6F5)3·H2O[21]), 4 and 5 were isolated as the only pro-
ducts,[20b] and bis(trimethylsilyl)acetylene was detected in the
reaction solution by NMR spectroscopy. Complex 3 was not
formed in the reaction of rac-[(ebthi)Ti(h2-Me3SiC2SiMe3)]
with a mixture of 4 and 5 in n-hexane.
The compounds described here form a series of complexes
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of the type rac-[{(ebthi)Ti} {X-B(C6F5)3} ] (X = C CSiMe3
(3), OH (4) or H (5)). To date, we failed to synthesize similar
complexes by the reaction of the recently published stable
*
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permethyltitanocene monoalkynyl complexes [Cp2 Ti-C C-
tBu][22] with B(C6F5)3. Whether this is because of the specific
properties of the Cp ligands (Cp* vs. ebthi) or of the alkynyl
substituents (Me3Si vs. tBu) or because of the reaction path
itself is being investigated.
Received: October 23, 2002
Revised: November 29, 2002 [Z50421]
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