Solvent-Separated and Contact Ion Pairs of Parent Lithium Trimethyl Zincate
Solvent-Separated and Contact Ion Pairs of Parent Lithium Trimethyl Zincate
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200901587
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发表时间:
2009-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Stalke, D.
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作者:
Merkel, S.;Stern, D.;Stalke, D.
Bimetallic reagents, which are composed of one alkali metal ion, a second metal atom (Zn, Al, or Mg), and variable ligands have gained much attention over the last few years since they show a reactivity pattern that easily outperforms simple monometallic species.[1] Especially zincate complexes, although known to chemists for more than 150years,[2] recently have been discovered to metalate substituted aromatic substrates at positions that can be reached neither by common organolithium nor by organomagnesium compounds alone. In their pioneering work, Mulvey and co-workers introduced the meta deprotonation into aromatic chemistry, complementing the established directed ortho metalation (DoM) by Snieckus and co-workers.[3] They were able to metalate the previously inaccessible meta position of N, N-dimethylaniline employing the amido zincate [(tmeda) Na-(μ-tBu)(μ-tmp) ZntBu)][4] and of toluene using [(tmeda) Na-(μ-Bu)(μ-tmp) Mg (tmp)][5](tmeda= tetramethylethylenediamine; tmp= tetramethylpiperidide). Another aspect is the smooth zincation of many substituted aromatics for which the traditionally used organolithium compounds fail because of their incompatibility with many functional groups.[6] These advantages of ate complexes over their monometallic congeners have been accredited to synergistic effects. In their milestone paper on alkali-metal organics in 1917,[7] Schlenk and Holtz elaborated that the reaction of diethylzinc and lithium or sodium yields only zinc and an alkali-metal ethylzinc compound; hence, transmetalation does not occur. To favor transmetalation, they employed diorganomercury compounds instead. Nowadays there are many examples of transmetalation reactions involving the R2Hg/R’Li system,[8] but the R2Zn/R’Li system normally yields lithium zincates of the general composition Li2ZnR2R’2 or LiZnR2R’.[9–11] An unexpected transmetalation reaction of an organolithium compound and dimethyl zinc to give a diorganozinc complex was reported as well.[12]