Spirocyclic Diaminocarbenes: Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry, and Investigation of Their Dimerization Behavior

Autor: Roland Fröhlich, Martin Paas, F. Ekkehardt Hahn, Duc Le Van
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Chemistry - A European Journal. 11:5080-5085
ISSN: 1521-3765
0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200500306
Popis: Nonaromatic, "saturated", spirocyclic N-heterocyclic diaminocarbenes 11 can be obtained from spirocyclic imidazolidin-2-thiones 10 by reductive desulfurization with potassium. The unsymmetrically N,N'-substituted spirocyclic imidazolidin-2-thiones were obtained by reaction of ketimines 9 with lithium N-butyl-N-lithiomethyldithiocarbamate (6). 1 3 C NMR spectroscopy revealed that the unsymmetrically N,N'-substituted spirocyclic imidazolidin-2-ylidene 11a undergoes a slow, acid-catalyzed dimerization to give the enetetramine lla=lla, which exists in two isomeric forms (syn and anti). This reaction is reversible under special circumstances. Carbenes of type 11 react with [W(CO) 6 ] to yield air-stable carbene complexes of type [W(11)(CO) 5 ] (14). The molecular structures of two derivatives 14a and 14b were established by X-ray crystallography and show clear distortion of the five-membered N-heterocyclic ring, caused by the spirocyclic molecular structure of the carbene ligands of type 11.
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