New sing
le-, doub
le-, and cross-coup
ling and imido group transfer reactions of cyc
lopentadieny
l-amidinate titanium imido comp
lexes are described. Reaction of Ti(
-C
5R
4Me)(N
tBu)C
l(py) (R = Me orH) with the
lithiated benzamidinate Li[PhC(NSiMe
3)
2] or acetamidinate Li[MeC(N
iPr)
2] afforded the
tert-buty
l imido comp
lexes Ti(
-C
5R
4Me)(N
tBu){PhC(NSiMe
3)
2} (R = Me (
5) or H (
7)) and Ti(
-C
5R
4Me)(N
tBu){MeC(N
iPr
2)
2} (R = Me (
6) or H (
8)), respective
ly. Reaction of
6 with ArNH
2 or To
lNH
2 (Ar= 2,6-C
6H
3Me
2, To
l = 4-C
6H
4Me) afforded the corresponding ary
l imido comp
lexes Ti(
-C
5Me
5)(NR){MeC(N
iPr
2)
2} (R = Ar (
9) or To
l (
10)). Comp
lexes
5,
7, and
8 underwent cyc
loaddition/extrusion reactions with CS
2 and COS to form
-su
lfido dimers and
tBuNCS and
tBuNCO, respective
ly.Compound
6 reacted with COS to form
tBuNCO and [Ti(
-C
5Me
5)(
-S){MeC(N
iPr)
2}]
2, but with CS
2additiona
l insertion into an amidinate
ligand Ti-N
iPr bond occurred to form
[Ti(
-C
5Me
5)(
-S){N(
iPr)C(Me)N(
iPr)C(S)S}]
2. For the ary
l imido compounds
9 and
10 the intermediate cyc
loaddition productsTi(
-C
5Me
5){N(R)C(E)S}{MeC(N
iPr)
2} (E = S or O) were observed. No further insertion of CS
2 orCOS into the Ti-NR bonds occurred. A
ll tert-buty
l imido compounds reacted s
low
ly with
tBuNCO orArNCO to form
-oxo-bridged dimers and
tBuNCN
tBu or
tBuNCNAr, respective
ly. Reaction of
9 with
tBuNCO gave the N,O-bound ureate Ti(
-C
5Me
5){N(Ar)C(N
tBu)O}{MeC(N
iPr)
2}, which extruded
tBuNCNAr to form [Ti(
-C
5Me
5)(
-O){MeC(N
iPr)
2}]
2. Reaction of
9 or
10 with ary
l isocyanates gavethe N,O-bound ureates Ti(
-C
5Me
5){N(R
1)C(NR
2)O}{MeC(N
iPr)
2} (R
1 = Ar, R
2 = Ar or To
l; R
1 =To
l, R
2 = Ar or To
l (
25)), which did not undergo extrusion. Reaction of
25 with To
lNCO gave the netcyc
loaddition-insertion product Ti(
-C
5Me
5){OC(NTo
l)NTo
lC(NTo
l)O}{MeC(N
iPr)
2}. Severa
l heterocumu
lene cross-coup
ling cyc
loaddition-insertion reactions were studied: for examp
le, the sequentia
lreaction of
10 with To
lNCO and CO
2 gave Ti(
-C
5Me
5){OC(O)NTo
lC(NTo
l)O}{MeC(N
iPr)
2}. Ary
limides
9 and
10 reacted with To
lNCNTo
l to form the guanidinate comp
lexes Ti(
-C
5Me
5){N(To
l)C(NTo
l)N(R)}{MeC(N
iPr)
2} (R = Ar or To
l). Reaction of
5 and
6 with PhNO gave
tBuN=NPh and
-oxo-bridged dimers; the ary
l imides
9 and
10 reacted simi
lar
ly. Ketone and a
ldehyde C=O/Ti=NRbond metathesis reactions occurred for certain
tert-buty
l and ary
l imido compounds with MeCOMe,PhCOPh, PhCOH, and PhCOMe, and in some instances intermediates were observed. S
low imide/iminemetathesis occurred between Ti(
-C
5Me
5)(N-4-C
6H
4NMe
2){PhC(N
iPr
2)
2} and PhCH(NTo
l). Compound
6 rapid
ly converted PhCONH
2 and Me(CH
2)
4CONH
2 to the corresponding nitri
les, but the ana
logousreaction with
tBuCONH
2 was s
lower. Severa
l other titanium imido compounds and Ti(NMe
2)
2C
l2 werea
lso eva
luated for the PhCONH
2 dehydration reaction.