Synthesis of a Dialumene-Benzene Adduct and Its Reactivity as a Synthetic Equivalent of a Dialumene
Synthesis of a Dialumene-Benzene Adduct and Its Reactivity as a Synthetic Equivalent of a Dialumene
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.201305228
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发表时间:
2013-10-04
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16.6
通讯作者:
Tokitoh, Norihiro
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作者:
Agou, Tomohiro;Nagata, Koichi;Tokitoh, Norihiro
Multiply bonded species involving heavier main-group elements have been extensively investigated,[1] whereas the chemistry of analogous species involving group 13 elements is still in its infancy.[2, 3] Examples for isolable neutral heavier group 13 dimetallenes with the formula of RM= MR (M: Al, Ga, In, Tl) remain scarce for the homologues of gallium,[4] indium,[5] and thallium,[6] and have been unknown for aluminum so far.[7–9] In 2003, Power et al. reported the attempted synthesis of the 1, 2-diaryldialumene A (Scheme 1).[10] Isolation of the compound B is likely interpreted in terms of the generation of A by the reduction of ArAlI2 and subsequent trapping with toluene.[11, 12] Meanwhile, reactivities of dialumene-arene adducts such as B are interesting from the viewpoint of synthons for highly reactive dialumenes, since the adducts are expected to react with small molecules as an “Ar-Al= Al-Ar” building block along with elimination of the arene moiety as there is a gain in aromatic stabilization energies.[13, 14] Herein, we report the synthesis and properties of the dialumene-benzene adduct 1 (Scheme 2). The reactivities of 1 have been investigated, and demonstrate the properties of 1 as a synthetic equivalent of a dialumene.The dialumene-benzene adduct 1 was obtained quantitatively as air-and moisture-sensitive red crystals by the reduction of the 1, 2-dibromodialumane 3 in benzene (Scheme 2).[15, 16] The solid-state structure of 1 was determined by X-ray crystallographic analysis (Figure 1), thus showing its