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SHORT COMMUNICATION
was removed from the photolysate under reduced pressure and the
dark green residue was extracted under argon with 3ϫ10-mL por-
tions of hexane. Such combined extracts were filtered and then con-
centrated. Storage of the hexane solution at 0 °C led to the deposi-
tion of between 339 mg to 491 mg of dark green 6 (38–55%) in
two different runs; m.p. (capillary under argon) 148.5–150 °C [lit.
150 °C];[17] 1H NMR (C6D6): δ = 6.06(s, 10 H), 6.4–6.9 (m, 20 H)
repeated with glacial O-deuterioacetic acid (99%), the resulting 8
lacked the 1H NMR singlet at δ = 6.40 ppm, showing that this
sample of 8 was deuteriated at the C1 and C4 sites.
Acknowledgments
ppm. IR (KBr): ν = 697 cm–1 (vs), 725 (m), 750 (m), 770 (s), 780
˜
The authors are grateful to the Boulder Scientific Company, Mead,
Colorado, for the generous support of their research with transi-
tion-metal metallocenes and to the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundationfor a Senior Scientist Award to the first-cited author,
renewed in 2005 for studies in the laboratory of Professor W. A.
Herrmann, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Technische Uni-
versität München, Germany.
(m), 800 (vs), 807 (vs), 830 (sh), 840 (w), 905 (vw), 945 (vw), 1015
(s), 1075 (s), 1095 (sh), 1145 (sh), 1155 (w), 1180 (w), 1245 (w),
1260 (w), 1362 (w), 1370 (sh), 1440 (s), 1480 (s), 1590 (s), 3040 (w),
3060 (w), 3080 (w) cm–1.
Interaction of Bis(cyclopentadienyl)sodium (3) with Titanium(II)
Chloride–Bis(tetrahydrofuran) (1b) in Tetrahydrofuran
1) Reaction at 0 °C, Removal of Alkali Metal Salts by Filtration and
Reaction of the Titanocene Filtrate with Diphenylacetylene (5): A
solution of titanium(IV) chloride (1.90 g, 10 mmol) in toluene
(10 mL) was added to dry THF (60 mL) and the mixture cooled
to –78 °C to yield a yellow suspension. Then n-butyllithium
(20 mmol) in hexane (2.50 ) was introduced into the yellow slurry
dropwise. Allowing this reaction mixture to come to 25 °C over 1 h
produced a black slurry of TiCl2·THF (1b) in solution with sus-
pended LiCl by-product, as has been established by a published
procedure.[22] Then an orange solution of the cyclopentadienyl-
sodium 3 (22 mmol), previously prepared from sodium metal dis-
persion (0.51 g, 22 mmol) and freshly distilled cyclopentadiene
(1.50 g, 23 mmol) in THF (50 mL) was added rapidly to the solu-
tion of 1b maintained at 0 °C. The resulting reaction mixture was
allowed to stand at 25 °C for 2 h before the suspended salts (LiCl
and NaCl) were filtered off on a glass frit under argon. The fil-
tration step required about 90 min. The green-black filtrate was
then treated with a solution of diphenylacetylene (5) (3.56 g,
20 mmol) in THF (40 mL). This final mixture was allowed to stand
at room temp. for 10 h and then heated at reflux for 6 h. Treatment
of an aliquot of the reaction mixture with glacial acetic acid and
usual hydrolytic workup of the dried organic extract showed that
35% of the diphenylacetylene initially introduced had been con-
verted into cis-stilbene (10) (7.0 mmol.). Equally noteworthy was
the absence of any (E,E)-1,2,3,4-tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene (8), the
protolysis product expected to arise if any 6 had been formed from
the reaction of the titanocene(II) 2 with the added diphenylacety-
lene.
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