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Syntheses and Characterization of New Vinyl-Borylene Complexes by the Hydroboration of Alkynes with {[}(μ3-BH)(Cp{*}RuCO)2(μ-CO)Fe(CO)3]
Shubhankar Bose Kumar, Dipak Roy Kumar, Pritam Shankhari, , Bijan Mondal, Amrita Sikder, Sundargopal Ghosh
Published in WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
2013
Volume: 19
   
Issue: 7
Pages: 2337 - 2343
Abstract
Room temperature photolysis of a triply-bridged borylene complex, {[}(3-BH)(Cp{*}RuCO)2(-CO)Fe(CO)3] (1a; Cp{*}=C5Me5), in the presence of a series of alkynes, 1,2-diphenylethyne, 1-phenyl-1-propyne, and 2-butyne led to the isolation of unprecedented vinyl-borylene complexes (Z)-{[}(Cp{*}RuCO)2(-CO)B(CR)(CHR)] (2: R, R=Ph; 3: R=Me, R=Ph; 4: R, R=Me). This reaction permits a hydroboration of alkyne through an anti-Markovnikov addition. In stark contrast, in the presence of phenylacetylene, a metallacarborane, closo-{[}1,2-(Cp{*}Ru)2(-CO)2\{Fe2(CO)5\}-4-Ph-4,5-C2BH2] (5a), is formed. A plausible mechanism has been proposed for the formation of vinyl-borylene complexes, which is supported by density functional theory (DFT) methods. Furthermore, the calculated 11BNMR chemical shifts accurately reflect the experimentally measured shifts. All the new compounds have been characterized in solution by mass spectrometry and IR, 1H, 11B, and 13CNMR spectroscopies and the structural types were unequivocally established by crystallographic analysis of 2, 5a, and 5b.
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JournalCHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
PublisherWILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
ISSN0947-6539