Selective dimetalation of [Mn(eta5-C5H5)(eta6-C6H6)]: crystal structure and conversion to strained [n]metalloarenophanes.
Selective dimetalation of [Mn(eta5-C5H5)(eta6-C6H6)]: crystal structure and conversion to strained [n]metalloarenophanes.
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[Mn(eta5-C5H5)(eta6-C6H6)] 的选择性二金属化:晶体结构和向应变[n]金属芳烃的转化。
DOI:
10.1002/anie.200604391
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发表时间:
2007
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通讯作者:
K. Radacki
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作者:
H. Braunschweig;T. Kupfer;K. Radacki
During the last 15years the chemistry of strained ansa complexes has been of growing interest as a result of their unique structure, bonding, and reactivity patterns.[1] In general, this class of organometallic compounds is prepared by stoichiometric salt-elimination reactions of dimetalated metallocenes with element dihalides. Hence, the application of a selectively dimetalated and well-defined sandwich precursor is essential for this reaction and for the functionalization of metallocene complexes in general. By employing alkyl lithium bases in the presence of a coordinating amine such as N, N, N’, N’-tetramethylethylenediamine(tmeda) or N, N’, N’, N’’, N’’-pentamethyldiethylenetriamine (pmdta) the double deprotonation of the homoleptic sandwich complexes [M (η5-C5H5) 2](M= Fe,[2] Ru [3]) and [M (η6-C6H6) 2](M= V,[4] Cr [5]), as well as the heteroleptic species [M (η5-C5H5)(η7-C7H7)](M= Ti,[6] V,[7] Cr [1f]), has been accomplished. However, except for the dilithiated ferrocene derivatives [Fe (η5-C5H4Li) 2]· pmdta [8] and [Fe (η5-C5H4Li) 2] 3·(tmeda) 2 [9] structural data of dimetalated metallocenes are acutely rare to date. Very recently Mulvey and co-workers reported on the selective tetrametalation of ferrocene and its higher homologues,[10] the synergic monodeprotonation of bis-(benzene) chromium,[11] and the selective dimetalation of ferrocene [12] by mixed alkali-metal–magnesium amide bases along with the corresponding crystal structure analyses. In the course of our recent studies on strained metalloarenophanes, we became interested in manganese-containing ansa complexes. Since manganocene [Mn (η5-C5H5) 2] cannot be metalated without decomposition, the number of known ansa complexes is limited to one structurally characterized example.[13] Therefore, we focused mainly on the heteroleptic sandwich complex [Mn (η5-C5H5)(η6-C6H6)](1) originally reported by Fischer and Breitschaft in 1966.[14] This compound has been the subject of several spectroscopic [15] and theoretical investigations,[16] however, the reactivity has not been investigated in detail so far, most probably because of the interminable low-yield synthesis (2–4%). It should be noted, though, that a few earlier studies indicated the susceptibility of 1 towards deprotonation upon reaction with BuLi in the presence of tmeda.[17] The material thus obtained was not characterized but quenched insitu with various element halides. From the nature of the trapping products, including a proposed [2] silamanganoarenophane,[17b, c] the formation of a dilithiated metallocene intermediate appears plausible. The constitution of the trapping products, however, was deduced solely from NMR data, and owing to incomplete metalation of the starting material, inseparable product mixtures were obtained in various cases.[17b] Herein we report on the facile and selective deprotonation of 1, leading to a structurally characterized dimetalated species, and its conversion to the first structurally characterized boron-and silicon-bridged [n] manganoarenophanes (n= 1, 2).Selective double deprotonation of 1 was achieved by employing a mixture of 2.7 equivalents of butyllithium and pmdta in aliphatic solvents at room temperature to afford the base-stabilized complex [Mn (η5-C5H4Li)(η6-C6H5Li)]· pmdta (2). Compound 2 can be isolated as a pale-brown, pyrophoric powder in high yields up to 85%(Scheme 1).[18]