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Selective cyclometalation of disubstituted acetylenes and ethylene with diethylmagnesium and ethylmagnesium halides in the presence of zirconium complexes

Catalytic cyclometalation of disubstituted acetylenes and ethylene with ethylmagnesium halides EtMgHlg (Hlg = Cl, Br) and diethylmagnesium Et 2Mg in the presence of Cp2ZrCl2 gave tetrasubstituted magnesacyclopenta-2,4-dienes and disubstituted magnesacyclopent-2-enes. A probable scheme of formation of cyclic unsaturated organomagnesium compounds was proposed, according to which the reactive intermediates in the cyclometalation process are zirconacyclopentadienes and zirconacyclopentenes generated from Cp2ZrCl2, EtMgHlg, Et2Mg, acetylenes, and ethylene.

Intermolecular cycloalumination of cyclic and acyclic alkynes with Et nAlCl3-n in the presence of Cp2ZrCl2

Intramolecular cycloalumination of cyclic and acyclic alkynes with Et nAlCl3-n (n = 0, 1) in the presence of Cp 2ZrCl2 gave previously unknown unsaturated bi-and tricyclic organoaluminum compounds in up to 80% y

New method for cycloalumination of disubstituted acetylenes with 1,2-dichloroethane

A new procedure has been developed for the synthesis of 2,3-dialkyl(phenyl)aluminacyclopent-2-enes by Cp2TiCl 2-catalyzed cycloalumination of disubstituted acetylenes with EtAlCl2 in the presence of ethylene generated in situ from 1,2-dichloroethane and activated magnesium.

First synthesis of magnesacyclopentadienes from acetylenes by treatment with BuMgHlg in the presence of Zr complexes

Treatment of internal acetylenes and allenes with BuMgHlg (Hlg = Cl, Br) in the presence of Cp2ZrCl2 selectively leads to the formation of substituted magnesacyclopenta-2,4-dienes and alkylidenemagnesacyclopentenes.

Bu2iAlCl - Cp2TiCl2 - A new reagent for hydroalumination of disubstituted acetylenes

A new regio- and stereoselective method for the synthesis of E-alkenylchloralanes based on Cp2TiCl2-calalyzed hydroalumination of disubstituted acetylenes by diisobutylaluminum chloride was developed. Hydrolysis and deuterolysis of organoaluminum compounds lead to the corresponding Z-olefins, and cross-coupling with allyl halides in the presence of Pd(Ph3P)4 results in the formation of cis-4,5-disubstituted 1,4-dienes.

Multiple mechanistic pathways for zirconium-catalyzed carboalumination of alkynes. Requirements for cyclic carbometalation processes involving C-H activation

The reactions of internal and terminal alkynes with organoalanes containing Et, n-Pr, and i-Bu groups in the presence of Cp2ZrCl2 and MeZrCp2Cl were investigated with the goal of clarifying mechanistic details of some representative cases. Three fundamentally different processes, i.e., (i) C-M bond addition without C-H activation in the alkyl group, (ii) cyclic C-M bond addition via C-H activation, and (iii) hydrometalation, have been observed, and the courses of these reactions significantly depend on (i) the nature and number of alkyl groups in organoalanes, (ii) their amounts, and (iii) solvents. The reaction of alkynes with Et3Al in the presence of 0.1 equiv of Cp2ZrCl2 in nonpolar solvents, e.g., hexanes, proceeds via C-H activation to give the corresponding aluminacyclopentenes. Investigation of the reaction of 5-decyne with 1-3 equiv of Et3Al and 1 equiv of Cp2ZrCl2, which gave mono-, di-, or trideuterated (Z)-5-ethyl-5-decene as shown, together with the previously reported structural study on the reaction of Et3Al with Cp2ZrCl2 leading to the formation of well-characterized bimetallic species 9, 10, and 11, supports a catalytic cycle involving bimetallic species 10 and 18. In summary, this process requires a zirconocene derivative containing one Zr-bound Et group which is linked to Et3Al (but not to Et2AlCl) through a Cl bridge, i.e., 18, to produce 10 via β C-H activation. In sharp contrast, the reaction of Et2AlCl-Cp2ZrCl2 as well as of (n-Pr)2AlCl-Cp2ZrCl2 does not involve any C-H activation processes. It proceeds well in chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents, e.g., (CH2Cl)2, but it is extremely sluggish in nonpolar solvents, e.g., hexanes. The reaction may well involve direct C-Al bond addition to alkynes, as suggested earlier for Zr-catalyzed Me-Al bond addition to alkynes, but a few other alternatives cannot be ruled out on the basis of the currently available data. The reaction of alkynes with (n-Pr)3Al-Cp2ZrCl2 in nonpolar solvents proceeds partially via C-H activation and partially via hydrometalation. In contrast with the C-H activation process observed with Et3Al, that with (n-Pr)3Al is totally dominated by dimerization of alkynes to give aluminacyclopentadienes rather than aluminacyclopentenes, reflecting a previously established generalization that propene can be much more readily displaced from Zr by alkynes than ethylene. Hydrometalation is the exclusive process with (i-Bu)3Al-Cp2ZrCl2. This hydrometalation reaction, however, reveals a few interesting complications. Alkyl-substituted internal alkynes give double bond migrated products in addition to the expected hydrometalation products. With terminal alkynes the reaction produces the expected hydrometalation products and the 1,1-dimetalloalkanes in comparable yields. Various other related reactions involving other alkynes, e.g., PhC≡CPh, n-OctC≡CH, and PhC≡CH, and other reagents, e.g., Et3Al-MeZrCp2Cl, Et2AlCl-MeZrCp2Cl, and (n-Pr)3Al-MeZrCp2Cl, were also studied.