Isolation of an Elusive Phosphametallacyclobutadiene and Its Role in Reversible Carbon-Carbon Bond Cleavage.

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Center for Catalysis, P.O. Box 117200, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

Published: July 2022

The reactivity of phosphaalkynes, the isolobal and isoelectronic congeners to alkynes, with metal alkylidyne complexes is explored in this work. Treating the tungsten alkylidyne [ BuOCO]W≡C Bu(THF) (1) with phosphaalkyne (10) results in the formation of [O C( BuC=)W{η -(P,C)-P≡C-Ad}(THF)] (13- Bu ) and [O C(AdC=)W{η -(P,C)-P≡C- Bu}(THF)] (13-Ad ); derived from the formal reductive migratory insertion of the alkylidyne moiety into a W-C bond. Analogous to alkyne metathesis, a stable phosphametallacyclobutadiene complex [ BuOCO]W[κ -C( Bu)PC(Ad)] (14) forms upon loss of THF from the coordination sphere of either 13- Bu or 13-Ad . Remarkably, the C-C bonds reversibly form/cleave with the addition or removal of THF from the coordination sphere of the formal tungsten(VI) metal center, permitting unprecedented control over the transformation of a tetraanionic pincer to a trianionic pincer and back. Computational analysis offers thermodynamic and electronic reasoning for the reversible equilibrium between 13- Bu/Ad and 14.

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