Efficient room-temperature alkyne metathesis with well-defined imidazolin-2-iminato tungsten alkylidyne complexes
Efficient room-temperature alkyne metathesis with well-defined imidazolin-2-iminato tungsten alkylidyne complexes
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200703184
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Tamm, Matthias
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作者:
Beer, Stephan;Hrib, Cristian G.;Tamm, Matthias
Alkene metathesis is an organometallic success story par excellence, and the development of active catalysts for the breaking and making of carbon–carbon double bonds has had a tremendous impact on the development of new methods for the preparation of complex natural products and novel materials.[1, 2] The related metathesis of alkynes represents a significantly less-developed synthetic method,[3] although the first homogeneous catalytic systems, for example mixtures of [Mo (CO) 6] and phenol additives, and the concept of using alkylidyne complexes in alkyne metathesis were introduced as early as the mid 1970s.[4, 5]To date, only a limited number of well-defined alkylidyne complexes are known that fulfill the expectations for an alkyne metathesis catalyst with regard to its activity, substrate compatibility, and required reaction temperature.[1a, 3a, 6] Among these, the neopentylidyne complex [Me3CC W-(OCMe3) 3] represents the most widely used tungsten-based species for applications such as ring-closing alkyne metathesis (RCAM) and alkyne cross-metathesis (ACM).[7] Furthermore, several catalytically active systems have been established that rely on the activation of molybdenum (III) triamido complexes of the general type [Mo {N (tBu) Ar} 3].[8] Herein, we introduce a new design strategy for the development of alkyne metathesis catalysts. This approach draws on the structure of the most active alkene metathesis catalysts, stable molybdenum and tungsten imido alkylidene complexes of type I (Scheme 1). Recently, we reported the preparation of monoanionic imidazolin-2-iminato ligands of type III, which can be described by the two limiting resonance structures IIIA and IIIB, indicating that the ability of the imidazolium ring to stabilize a positive charge leads to highly basic ligands [9] with a strong electron-donating capacity towards early transition metals.[10] Owing to their ability to act as 2σ, 4π-electron donors, these ligands can be regarded as