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Reactions of aziridine, oxirane, and thiirane with carbonyl and thiocarbonyl ligands in complexes of iron, manganese, and ruthenium: Syntheses of cyclic carbene compounds
Singh, Mono M.,Angelici, Robert J.
, p. 2691 - 2698 (2008/10/08)
The 3-membered heterocycles aziridine (HNCH2CH2) and oxirane (OCH2CH2) react with one CO group in each of the cationic carbonyl complexes Cp(OC)3Fe+, Cp(OC)3Ru+, Cp(OC)2(ON)Mn+, and Cp(OC)2(Ph3P)Fe+ in the presence of a halide ion at 25°C or below to form the corresponding 5-membered cyclic amino oxy M=COCH2CH2NH+ and dioxy M=COCH2CH2O+carbene complexes (M = Cp(OC)2Fe, Cp(OC)2Ru, Cp(OC)(ON)Mn, Cp(OC)(Ph3P)Fe). Aziridine and thiirane (SCH2CH2) also react with the CS ligand in the mixed carbonyl thiocarbonyl complex Cp(OC)2(CS)Fe+ to give the corresponding aminothiocarbene (M=CSCH2CH2NH) and dithiocarbene (M=CSCH2CH2S) products. In the reactions M-C≡Z+ + YCH2CH2 →X- M=CZCH2CH2Y+ (Z = O, Y = NH and O; Z = S, Y = NH and S), the role of the halide ion X- as a catalyst has been demonstrated. Prolonged reactions of oxirane with Cp(OC)2LM+ (M = Fe, L = CO; M = Mn, L = NO) in the presence of Br ion generate bis(dioxycarbene) derivatives CpLM(COCH2CH2O)2+. Mechanisms for these reactions have been proposed. Reactions of Cp(OC)2LM+ (M = Fe, L = CO; M = Mn, L = NO) with [BrCH2CH2CH2NH3]Br and the bases azetidine (HNCH2CH2CH2) or oxirane and Br- yield 6-membered aminooxycarbene compounds Cp(OC)LM(COCH2CH2CH2NH)+. The basic behavior of oxiranes R-CHCH2O in the presence of a halide catalyst is demonstrated by the isolation of the 5-membered dioxycarbene compound Cp(CO)2Fe(COCH2CH2O)+ from the reaction of RCHCH2O with Cp(OC)3Fe+ in BrCH2CH2OH. IR and 1H and 13C NMR spectra of the compounds are discussed.