Use of ring-expanded diamino- and diamidocarbene ligands in copper catalyzed azide-alkyne "click" reactions

The two-coordinate ring-expanded N-heterocyclic carbene copper­(I) complexes [Cu­(RE-NHC)₂]⁺ (RE-NHC = 6-Mes, 7-<i>o</i>-Tol, 7-Mes) have been prepared and shown to be effective catalysts under neat conditions for the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of alkynes and azides. In contrast, the cationic diamidocarbene analogue [Cu­(6-MesDAC)₂]⁺ and the neutral species [(6-MesDAC)­CuCl]₂ and [(6-MesDAC)₂(CuCl)₃] show good activity when the catalysis is performed on water

First examples of diazepanylidene carbenes and their late-transition-metal complexes

The synthesis of the novel seven-membered N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) 1,3-dicyclohexyl-1,3-diazepan-2-ylidene (3) and its 5,6-dioxolane derivative 4 is reported and their coordination chemistry with Rh(I), Ir(I), and Pt(0) discussed. The M(cod)(3)Cl, where M = Rh and Ir, complexes display a high rotation barrier at room temperature about the M-CNHC bond, whereas for the M(CO)2(3)Cl and Pt(nbe)2(3) complexes rapid rotation of the carbene ligand is observed at ambient temperature. The infrared (CO) values of the Rh(I) and Ir(I) derivatives M(CO)2(3)Cl give a measure of the donor ability of the new carbene ligands. The crystal structures of the amidinium salts 3·HPF6 and 4·HPF6 together with those of M(cod)(3)Cl [M = Rh, Ir], Ir(cod)(4)Br, Ir(CO)2(3)Cl, and Pt(nbe)2(3) are reported. Both the salts and the coordinated carbene ligands exhibit extremely large NCN angles; for the complexes the angles are in the range 115.5(3) [Pt(3)] to 122(11) [Ir(4)]

Preparation of Butadienylpyridines by Iridium‐NHC‐Catalyzed Alkyne Hydroalkenylation and Quinolizine Rearrangement

Iridium(I) N‐heterocyclic carbene complexes of formula Ir(κ(2) O,O’‐BHetA)(IPr)(η (2)‐coe) [BHetA=bis‐heteroatomic acidato, acetylacetonate or acetate; IPr=1,3‐bis(2,6‐diisopropylphenyl)imidazolin‐2‐carbene; coe=cyclooctene] have been prepared by treating Ir(κ(2) O,O’‐BHetA)(η (2)‐coe)(2) complexes with IPr. These complexes react with 2‐vinylpyridine to afford the hydrido‐iridium(III)‐alkenyl cyclometalated derivatives IrH(κ(2) O,O’‐BHetA)(κ(2) N,C‐C(7)H(6)N)(IPr) through the iridium(I) intermediate Ir(κ(2) O,O’‐BHetA)(IPr)(η (2)‐C(7)H(7)N). The cyclometalated IrH(κ(2) O,O’‐acac)(κ(2) N,C–C(7)H(6)N)(IPr) complex efficiently catalyzes the hydroalkenylation of aromatic and aliphatic terminal alkynes and enynes with 2‐vinylpyridine to afford 2‐(4R‐butadienyl)pyridines with Z,E configuration as the major reaction products (yield up to 89 %). In addition, unprecedented (Z)‐2‐butadienyl‐5R‐pyridine derivatives have been obtained as minor reaction products (yield up to 21 %) from the elusive 1Z,3gem‐butadienyl hydroalkenylation products. These compounds undergo a thermal 6π‐electrocyclization to afford bicyclic 4H‐quinolizine derivatives that, under catalytic reaction conditions, tautomerize to 6H‐quinolizine to afford the (Z)‐2‐(butadienyl)‐5R‐pyridine by a retro‐electrocyclization reaction