Wednesday, 31 May 2006
Regency Ballroom and Milwaukee Rooms (Hyatt Regency Milwaukee)
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Preparation and Reactivity of (2-Alkenylpentenediyl)iron Complexes: An Organoiron Route to Cycloheptadienes

Rajesh K. Pandey, Nathaniel J. Wallock, and William A. Donaldson. Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

The reaction of (1-methoxycarbonylpentadienyl)iron(1+) cations 1 with alkenyl Grignard reagents affords (2-alkenylpentenediyl)iron(1+) complexes 2. The reactivity of these complexes will be presented, including epoxidation, Heck reactions, olefin cross-metathesis, and cycloadditions. The organic ligand present in functionalized complexes 2 can be liberated under oxidative conditions to afford divinylcyclopropanes. Cope rearrangement of the divinylcyclopropanes gives cycloheptadienes.


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