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Reductive Coupling Reactions (reductive + coupling_reaction)

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Reductive Coupling Reaction of Aryliminomethylferrocenes with Triethyl Orthoformate Induced by Low-valent Titanium

CHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, Issue 9 2001
Jun-Fang Gong
Abstract Reductive coupling reaction of aryliminomethylferrocenes FcCH = NAr[(1, Ar=QHs (a), p -ClC6H4 (b), p -BrC6H4 (c), p -CH3C6H4 (d), m -ClC6H4 (e)] with triethyl orthoformate (2) in Zn-TiCl4 system gave three kinds of products: 1, 3-diaryl-4, 5-diferrocenyl imidazolidines (3), N, N- disubstituted formamides (4), and 1, 2-diferrocenyl ethylene (5). 1H NMR spectra proved that all the compounds 3 obtained were dl -isomers. All the new compounds 3 and 4 were characterized by elemental analysis, 1H NMR, 13C NMR (for 3) and IR spectra. The molecular structure of 3c was determined by X-ray diffraction. [source]

Diboryl and Diboranyl Porphyrin Complexes: Synthesis, Structural Motifs, and Redox Chemistry: Diborenyl Porphyrin or Diboranyl Isophlorin?

CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 21 2007
Andre Weiss Dr.
Abstract The syntheses of diboryl porphyrin complexes [(BX2)2(ttp)] (ttp: dianion of tetra- p -tolylporphyrin) and the BB single-bond diboranyl complexes [(BX)2(ttp)] (X=F, Cl, Br, I) are given. The former are prepared from the reactions of BX3 (X=F, Cl) with [Li2(ttp)] and the latter from B2Cl4 (X=Cl), the reaction of SbF3 with [(BCl)2(ttp)] (for X=F), and, in the cases of X=Br or I, in a remarkable reductive coupling reaction resulting directly from the reaction of BBr3 or BI3 with [Li2(ttp)]. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations on the thermochemical parameters for the reductive coupling reactions (and those calculated for related dipyrromethene complexes) indicate that a combination of the reducing ability of bromide and iodide ions combined with the constrained environment of the porphyrin ligand contribute to the driving force. The reductive coupling is also observed in the reaction of [(BCl2)2(ttp)] with nBuLi to give [(BnBu)2(ttp)], which was characterised crystallographically. The reaction of [(BCl)2(ttp)] with catechol gives a boron catecholato porphyrin complex, [B2(O2C6H4)(ttp)]. Chloride abstraction from [(BCl)2(ttp)] gives the planar dication [B2(ttp)]2+, whereas chemical reduction of [(BCl)2(ttp)] by using magnesium anthracenide gives a neutral complex, [B2(ttp)], in which the TTP ligand has been reduced by two electrons to give an unusual example of an isophlorin complex. The cationic and neutral complexes [B2(ttp)]2+ and [B2(ttp)] were characterised through a combination of spectroscopic data that is supported by DFT calculations on the porphine analogues. [source]

Cobalt- and Nickel-Catalyzed Regio- and Stereoselective Reductive Coupling of Alkynes, Allenes, and Alkenes with Alkenes

CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 35 2008
Masilamani Jeganmohan Dr.
Abstract Transition-metal-catalyzed coupling of two different CC , components through a metallacycle intermediate is a highly atom economical method to construct CC bonds in organic synthesis. The metal-catalyzed coupling of an alkene and alkyne generally gives an Alder-ene or reductive coupling product. In this article, we focus on the cobalt- and nickel-catalyzed reductive coupling of alkynes, allenes, and alkenes with alkenes. These reductive coupling reactions provide convenient methods for the synthesis of various alkenes, dienes, functionalized alkanes, lactones, lactams, and cyclic alcohols in a highly regio- and stereoselective manner. A chemselective formation of metallacyclopentene intermediate from the two different CC , components and a low-valence metal species plays a key role for the high regio- and stereoselectivity of the catalytic reaction. [source]

Diboryl and Diboranyl Porphyrin Complexes: Synthesis, Structural Motifs, and Redox Chemistry: Diborenyl Porphyrin or Diboranyl Isophlorin?

CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 21 2007
Andre Weiss Dr.
Abstract The syntheses of diboryl porphyrin complexes [(BX2)2(ttp)] (ttp: dianion of tetra- p -tolylporphyrin) and the BB single-bond diboranyl complexes [(BX)2(ttp)] (X=F, Cl, Br, I) are given. The former are prepared from the reactions of BX3 (X=F, Cl) with [Li2(ttp)] and the latter from B2Cl4 (X=Cl), the reaction of SbF3 with [(BCl)2(ttp)] (for X=F), and, in the cases of X=Br or I, in a remarkable reductive coupling reaction resulting directly from the reaction of BBr3 or BI3 with [Li2(ttp)]. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations on the thermochemical parameters for the reductive coupling reactions (and those calculated for related dipyrromethene complexes) indicate that a combination of the reducing ability of bromide and iodide ions combined with the constrained environment of the porphyrin ligand contribute to the driving force. The reductive coupling is also observed in the reaction of [(BCl2)2(ttp)] with nBuLi to give [(BnBu)2(ttp)], which was characterised crystallographically. The reaction of [(BCl)2(ttp)] with catechol gives a boron catecholato porphyrin complex, [B2(O2C6H4)(ttp)]. Chloride abstraction from [(BCl)2(ttp)] gives the planar dication [B2(ttp)]2+, whereas chemical reduction of [(BCl)2(ttp)] by using magnesium anthracenide gives a neutral complex, [B2(ttp)], in which the TTP ligand has been reduced by two electrons to give an unusual example of an isophlorin complex. The cationic and neutral complexes [B2(ttp)]2+ and [B2(ttp)] were characterised through a combination of spectroscopic data that is supported by DFT calculations on the porphine analogues. [source]