Synthesis of a Square-Planar Rhodium Alkylidene N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complex and Its Reactivity Toward Alkenes
Organometallics2011Vol. 30(19), pp. 5208–5213
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Laura Palacios-Peña, Xiaowei Miao, Andrea Di Giuseppe, Simon Pascal, C. Cunchillos, Ricardo Castarlenas, Jesús J. Pérez‐Torrente, Fernando J. Lahoz, Pierre H. Dixneuf, Luis A. Oro
Abstract
The first rhodium alkylidene square-planar complex stabilized by an N-heterocyclic carbene ligand, RhCl(═CHPh)(IPr)PPh3 (2; IPr = 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-carbene), has been prepared by reaction of RhCl(IPr)(PPh3)2 (1) with phenyldiazomethane and its dynamic behavior in solution studied. Treatment of 2 with alkenes results in the formation of the η2-olefin complexes RhCl(η2-CH2═CHR)(IPr)PPh3 (3, R = H; 4, R = Ph; 5, R = OEt) and new olefins arising from the coupling of the alkylidene with the alkenes, likely via a metallacyclobutane intermediate.
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