Variable-temperature
1H
and 13C NMR spectroscopy of the sulfonimidoyl-substituted allyltitanium(IV) complexes
E-
1a-
c and Z-
1a-
c, which carry diethylamino groups at the Ti atom, revealed a fast1,3-C,N-shift of the Ti atom, leading to an equilibrium between the epimeric C
-titanium allyl complexes
Aand C and the
N-titanium allyl aminosulfoxonium ylide
B. Based on these findings a model for the reactionsof
E-
1a-
c and Z-
1a-
c with aldehydes is proposed, which features regio-
and diastereoselective reactionsof the
N-titanium ylide
B at the
-position
and the C
-titanium complex
A at the
-position. Model ab initiocalculations of the methylene
and allyl (dimethylamino)sulfoxonium ylides
10 and 14, respectively, revealedshort C
-S bonds, a stabilization by both electrostatic interaction
and negative hyperconjugation,
and alow C
-S rotational barrier. The ylides preferentially adopt C
-S
and C
-N conformations in which thelone pair orbital at the C
atom is periplanar to the S=O bond
and that at the N atom periplanar to theC
-Ph bond. Variable-temperature NMR spectroscopy of the sulfonimidoyl-substituted alkyltitanium(IV)complex
16, which carries diethylamino groups at the Ti atom, revealed a dynamic behavior leading to acomplete topomerization of all four methylene hydrogens of the C
-ethyl groups. Two fast processes areheld responsible for the topomerization of the hydrogens of
16. The first one is a reversible intramolecular
-hydride elimination/alkene-Ti-H insertion with the intermediate formation of a complex between(Et
2N)TiH
and a 1-alkenyl sulfoximine,
and the second one consists of a reversible 1,3-C,N-shift of the Tiatom in combination with a C
-S bond rotation. Interestingly, the room-temperature NMR spectra of thecorresponding sulfonimidoyl-substituted alkyltitanium(IV) complex
17, which carries isopropoxy groups atthe Ti atom, give no indication of a similar dynamic behavior of this complex.