Unique reactivities of new highly coordinated ate complexes of organozinc derivatives
Unique reactivities of new highly coordinated ate complexes of organozinc derivatives
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DOI:
10.1021/ja961320e
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发表时间:
1996-09-11
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15
通讯作者:
Sakamoto, T
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作者:
Uchiyama, M;Koike, M;Sakamoto, T
Organozinc reagents have been extensively used in organic synthesis. 1 The most important classes of organozinc derivatives have been organozinc halides and diorganozincs, and these have been prepared either by oxidative addition reaction of zinc metal to organic halides or by transmetalation reaction of organolithio or organomagnesio compounds with zinc chloride. As a new type of synthetic reagent, triorganozincates were reported to be convenient and synthetically useful for transferring various organic moieties to R, β-unsaturated ketones in a 1, 4-fashion. 2 Lithium trialkylzincates were also reported to be useful as metalating reagents of aromatic halides or vinyl halides. 3 The outer shell of the zinc atom in a lithium trialkylzincate is filled with 16 electrons, and there is a room for an additional ligand to coordinate to form a favorable 18-electron state. There are some reports on tetraalkylzincates4 and X-ray studies of the complexes which have disclosed that in the crystal structure of tetraalkylzincates there is a tetrahedral arrangement about the zinc atom. 5 However the reactivities of tetraalkylzincates have not been well studied. The unique tetrahedral form of these complexes made us study the reactivity of these tetraalkylorganozincates and related modified organozincates. The 1H-NMR study of organozincates indicated the difference between these highly coordinated zincates and lithium trimethylzincate. Studies to compared the reactivity of these reagents disclosed a different regioselectivity for epoxide opening and a different reactivity toward halogen-metal exchange. These results support that these highly coordinated zincates should be distinguished from ordinary lithium trialkylzincates in structure and reactivity.First, preparation of highly coordinated zincates were investigated, and 1H-NMR spectra of the zincates were measured for the preliminary estimation of the component of the zincate solution. Dilithium tetramethylzincate was prepared by the reaction of zinc chloride with 4 equiv of methyllithium in THF using the modified reported procedure. 4a The methyl signal of Me4-ZnLi2 in THF (-1.44 ppm) was observed midway as a sharp singlet between the signals of Me3ZnLi (-1.08 ppm) and MeLi (-1.96 ppm). High-field shift from the value of Me3ZnLi is considered to indicate the more anionic character of the zincates. Measurement at-78 C gave very similar results with a slight high-field shift of each signal. Addition of one more equivalent of MeLi to the Me4ZnLi2 solution resulted in a broad singlet signal at-1.49 ppm at-20 C which separated at-78 C into two signals corresponding to the signals of MeLi and those of Me4ZnLi2. Addition of 1 equiv of Me3SiCN or Me3SiNCS to the Me4ZnLi2 solution should give the zincates with methyl group replacement by the CN or SCN ligand. As we expected, the reaction of the tetramethylzincate with Me3SiCN and Me3-SiNCS gave the new zincates, Me3Zn (CN) Li2 (3) and Me3Zn-(SCN) Li2 (4a), of which methyl signals were observed as sharp singlets (-1.20 ppm for 3 and-1.23 ppm for 4a). 6a As an alternative way to prepare CN-or SCN-ligated zincates, the reaction of Zn (CN) 2 or Zn (SCN) 2 with 3 equiv of methyllithium was examined. From the preliminarly 1H-NMR study, the reaction of Zn (CN) 2 with MeLi is sluggish and no formation of a zincate was observed, 6b while the reaction of Zn (SCN) 2 with MeLi gave a zincate (-1.31 ppm) similar to 4a (Table 1). These results indicate that the different species of zincates are formed except for the reaction of Zn (CN) 2 with MeLi, and the more anionic character of these highly coordinated zincates than that of Me3ZnLi encouraged us to investigate the …