Versatile Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropenes in Metal Carbene Transformations |
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Authors: | Yongming Deng Michael P Doyle |
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Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249 USA |
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Abstract: | Select transition metal compounds catalyze metal vinylcarbene formation from cyclopropenes, and their documented reactions include both intermolecular and intramolecular C−H insertion and cyclopropanation, as well as 3+3]-cycloaddition. Although known to undergo carbene-like transformations for decades, the uses of cyclopropenes as reactive alternatives to diazo compounds under mild conditions has been limited. However, recently developed donor-acceptor cyclopropenes that are conveniently accessed from enoldiazoacetates and enoldiazoacetamides are effective metallo-vinylcarbene precursors. They provide entry to highly stereoselective metal carbene transformations under reaction conditions that are milder than those required for dinitrogen extrusion from diazo compounds. |
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Keywords: | arenes C−H insertion cycloaddition cyclopropanation vinylcarbene |
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