The methylene-transfer reaction: Synthetic and mechanistic aspects of a unique CC coupling and CC bond activation sequence

R Cohen, ME van der Boom, LJW Shimon…

Index: Cohen, Revital; Van Der Boom, Milko E.; Shimon, Linda J. W.; Rozenberg, Haim; Milstein, David Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2000 , vol. 122, # 32 p. 7723 - 7734

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Abstract

Oxidative addition of aryl iodides ArI (Ar=(a) C6H5,(b) C6H4CF3,(c) C6H3 (CF3) 2,(d) C6H4CH3,(e) C6H4OCH3), to the PCP-type complex Rh (PPh3)[CH2C6H (CH3) 2 (CH2PPh2) 2](1), yields the complexes Rh (Ar)[CH2C6H (CH3) 2 (CH2PPh2) 2](I)(2a-e). Compounds 2a-e undergo intramolecular methylene transfer from the bis-chelating ligand to the incoming aryl under mild conditions (room temperature) giving Rh (CH2Ar)[C6H (CH3) ...