Cross-dimerisation between different cisoid- and transoid-1,3-dienes at a ruthenium(0) centre

Masafumi Hirano*, Haruka Inoue, Takuya Okamoto, Takao Ueda, Nobuyuki Komine, Sanshiro Komiya, Xian Qi Wang, Martin A. Bennett

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    Abstract

    Reaction of [Ru(η4-cisoid-2,3-dimethyl-1,3-butadiene) (η4-1,5-COD)(NCMe)] with 1,3-butadiene gives the chelate bis(allylic)ruthenium(ii) complex supine,prone-[Ru(η3: η3-2,3-dimethylocta-2,6-diene-1,8-diyl)(η4-1, 5-COD)] (supine,prone-2da) in 75% isolated yield as a result of cross-oxidative coupling between two different 1,3-diene units. The structure of 2da has been established unambiguously using X-ray crystallography. This provides direct evidence that the prostereogenic selective oxidative coupling at the ruthenium(0) centre occurs between the cisoid- and transoid-dienes.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)3433-3439
    Number of pages7
    JournalNew Journal of Chemistry
    Volume37
    Issue number11
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Nov 2013

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