(Phosphine)carbonylnitrosylacylcobaltate Complexes as Acyl Transfer Reagents. Acylation of Allylic Halides, Conjugated Enones, and Quinones

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo00224a061

The complex Co(NO)(CO)2(PPh3) is an air stable, easily handled crystalline solid, prepared from Co2(CO)8, sodium nitrite, and triphenylphosphine without isolation of the volatile intermediate Co(NO)(CO)3.Treatment of this complex with organolithium reagents at -40 deg C generated unstable acylate complexes ^- which readily transferred the acyl group to allylic halides to produce β,γ-unsaturated ketones, to conjugated ketones to produce 1,4-dicarbonyl compounds, and to quinones to form 4-acylcyclohexadienones.