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Hydrogenative metathesis of enynes via piano-stool ruthenium carbene complexes formed by alkyne gem-hydrogenation
Peil, Sebastian,Bistoni, Giovanni,Goddard, Richard,Fürstner, Alois
supporting information, p. 18541 - 18553 (2020/11/17)
The only recently discovered gem-hydrogenation of internal alkynes is a fundamentally new transformation, in which both H atoms of dihydrogen are transferred to the same C atom of a triple bond while the other position transforms into a discrete metal carbene complex. [Cp?RuCl]4 is presently the catalyst of choice: the resulting piano-stool ruthenium carbenes can engage a tethered alkene into either cyclopropanation or metathesis, and a prototypical example of such a reactive intermediate with an olefin ligated to the ruthenium center has been isolated and characterized by X-ray diffraction. It is the substitution pattern of the olefin that determines whether metathesis or cyclopropanation takes place: a systematic survey using alkenes of largely different character in combination with a computational study of the mechanism at the local coupled cluster level of theory allowed the preparative results to be sorted and an intuitive model with predictive power to be proposed. This model links the course of the reaction to the polarization of the double bond as well as to the stability of the secondary carbene complex formed, if metathesis were to take place. The first application of "hydrogenative metathesis"to the total synthesis of sinularones E and F concurred with this interpretation and allowed the proposed structure of these marine natural products to be confirmed. During this synthesis, it was found that gem-hydrogenation also provides opportunities for C-H functionalization. Moreover, silylated alkynes are shown to participate well in hydrogenative metathesis, which opens a new entry into valuable allylsilane building blocks. Crystallographic evidence suggests that the polarized [Ru-Cl] bond of the catalyst interacts with the neighboring R3Si group. Since attractive interligand Cl/R3Si contacts had already previously been invoked to explain the outcome of various ruthenium-catalyzed reactions, including trans-hydrosilylation, the experimental confirmation provided herein has implications beyond the present case.
Original Syntheses of Carbonyl Compounds and gem-Dihalocyclopropanes from β-Hydroxylalkylselenides
Krief,A.,Laboureur, J. L.,Dumont, W.
, p. 1549 - 1552 (2007/10/02)
β-hydroxyalkylselenides possessing two alkyl substituents on the carbon bearing the selenyl moiety react with dihalocarbenes generated from haloforms and thallous ethoxide or under phase transfer catalysis to produce ring enlarged ketones as the sole product in the first case, as the main product in the second.The reaction takes another course when the dihalocarbenes generated from haloforms and tBuOK or from trihalomethylphenylmercury are employed and leads inter alias to dihalocyclopropanes.
