220680-71-7Relevant articles and documents
Synthesis and structure of titanocene complexes with η2-coordinated internal ferrocenylacetylenes
?těpni?ka, Petr,Gyepes, Róbert,Císa?ová, Ivana,Varga, Vojtech,Polá?ek, Miroslav,Horá?ek, Michal,Mach, Karel
, p. 627 - 633 (1999)
The reduction of (η5-C5H5-nMen) 2TiCl2 (n = 0, 4, and 5) complexes by magnesium metal in tetrahydrofuran and in the presence of [(trimethylsilyl)ethynyl]ferrocene (2) or [(phenyl)-ethynyl]ferrocene (3) affords the (η5-C5H5-nMen) 2Ti(η2-FcC≡CR) complexes [Fc = (η5-C5H5)-Fe(η5-C 5H4), R = SiMe3 (4-6) and Ph (7-9)]. Crystal structures of 5 and 9 show a titanacyclopropene-like mode of coordination of the acetylenes 2 and 3. Bonding of the acetylenes to the titanocene unit results in a remarkable downfield shift of 13C NMR resonances of the acetylenic carbon atoms and in a large red shift of the v(C≡C) wavenumbers. Testing the complexes 6 and 9 toward head-to-tail dimerization of HC≡CSiMe3 showed that compound 9 induces dimerization to give exclusively 2,4-bis(trimethylsilyl)-but-1-en-3-yne (10), whereas complex 6 is inactive.