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Polynuclear metal hydrido alkoxides. Reactions of W[sub 4](H)[sub 2](O-i-Pr)[sub 14] and W[sub 2](H)(O-c-C[sub 5]H[sub 9])[sub 7](HNMe[sub 2]) with carbon-carbon, carbon-oxygen, and carbon-nitrogen multiple bonds

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Chemical Society; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00112a010· OSTI ID:6766236

Reactions between the compounds [W[sub 2](H)(O-i-Pr)[sub 7]][sub 2] and W[sub 2](H)(O-c-C[sub 5]H[sub 9])[sub 7](HNMe[sub 2]) and olefins, alkynes, allene, 1,3-butadiene, ketones, and nitriles have been studied. Of the olefins, only ethene forms a kinetically persistent compound, and W[sub 2](O-c-C[sub 5]H[sub 9])[sub 7]([eta][sup 2]-C[sub 2]H[sub 4])([eta][sup 1]-C[sub 2]H[sub 5]) has been fully characterized. Other [alpha]-olefins are slowly isomerized to internal olefins, but, in the presence of added hydrogen, hydrogenolysis to give the alkane is kinetically preferred. Reactions employing allene and/or 1,3-butadiene are more complex as a result of ligand scrambling, and only the compound W[sub 2](O-c-C[sub 5]H[sub 9])[sub 8]([mu]--CH[sub 2]CCH[sub 2]) has been fully characterized. With aldehydes and ketones, insertion into the metal hydride generally proceeds to give alkoxide ligands, and the complex W[sub 2](O-c-C[sub 5]H[sub 9])[sub 8]([eta][sup 2]-O-c-C[sub 5]H[sub 8]) derived from the reaction involving W[sub 2](H)(O-c-C[sub 5]H[sub 9])[sub 7](HNMe[sub 2]) and cyclopentanone has been fully characterized. With benzophenone, an adduct is formed, which in the solid state and in solution is believed to have a terminal hydride and is formulated as W[sub 2](H)(OR)[sub 7]([eta][sup 2]-OCPh[sub 2]), an analogue of the W[sub 2]([eta][sup 1]-C[sub 2]H[sub 5])([eta][sup 2]-C[sub 2]H[sub 4]) complex. No single product from the reactions between ethyne and a W[sub 2]([mu]-H)-contaning compound has been fully characterized. 45 refs., 8 figs., 4 tabs.

OSTI ID:
6766236
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Chemical Society; (United States), Journal Name: Journal of the American Chemical Society; (United States) Vol. 117:7; ISSN JACSAT; ISSN 0002-7863
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English