文摘
Chelation and aggregation in phenyllithium reagents with potential 6- and 7-ring chelating amine(2, 3) and 5-, 6-, and 7-ring chelating ether (4, 5, 6) ortho substituents have been examined utilizing variabletemperature 6Li and 13C NMR spectroscopy, 6Li and 15N isotope labeling, and the effects of solvent additives.The 5- and 6-ring ether chelates (4, 5) compete well with THF, but the 6-ring amine chelate (2) barelydoes, and 7-ring amine chelate (3) does not. Compared to model compounds (e.g., 2-ethylphenyllithium7), which are largely monomeric in THF, the chelated compounds all show enhanced dimerization (asmeasured by K = [D]/[M]2) by factors ranging from 40 (for 6) to more than 200 000 (for 4 and 5). Chelationisomers are seen for the dimers of 5 and 6, but a chelate structure could be assigned only for2-(2-dimethylaminoethyl)phenyllithium (2), which has an A-type structure (both amino groups chelated tothe same lithium in the dimer) based on NMR coupling in the 15N, 6Li labeled compound. Unlike the dimer,the monomer of 2 is not detectably chelated. With the exception of 2-(methoxymethyl)phenyllithium (4),which forms an open dimer (12) and a pentacoordinate monomer (13), the lithium reagents all formmonomeric nonchelated adducts with PMDTA.