VII-G-2

VII-G-2 Formation of a Six Membered Metallacycle Consisting of Iron, Carbon, Phosphorus, Boron, and Two Oxygens: The First Example of Precedence of Migratory Insertion of CO into an M-C Bond over OR Abstraction from Coordinating Phosphite by BF₃

Hiroshi NAKAZAWA (Hiroshima Univ. and IMS), Yoshitaka YAMAGUCHI and Katsuhiko MIYOSHI (Hiroshima Univ.)

[Organometallics 15, 4661 (1996)]

Treatment of Cp(CO)MeFe{P(OMe)₃} with BF₃·OEt₂ and then PPh₃ gave a six-membered metallacyclic complex, Cp(PPh₃)FeC(Me)OBF₂OP(OMe)₂, which is suggested by its NMR data and X-ray analysis to be best described as a carbene phosphite metallacycle. The reaction mechanism is discussed.

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VII-G-2 Formation of a Six Membered Metallacycle Consisting of Iron, Carbon, Phosphorus, Boron, and Two Oxygens: The First Example of Precedence of Migratory Insertion of CO into an M-C Bond over OR Abstraction from Coordinating Phosphite by BF3

VII-G-2 Formation of a Six Membered Metallacycle Consisting of Iron, Carbon, Phosphorus, Boron, and Two Oxygens: The First Example of Precedence of Migratory Insertion of CO into an M-C Bond over OR Abstraction from Coordinating Phosphite by BF₃