Reduction of 1,4-dichlorobut-2-yne by titanocene to a 1,2,3-butatriene. Formation of a 1-titanacyclopent-3-yne and a 2,5-dititanabicyclo[2.2.0]hex-1(4)-ene

Vladimir V Burlakov; Perdita Arndt; Wolfgang Baumann; Anke Spannenberg; Uwe Rosenthal; Pattiyil Parameswaran; Eluvathingal D Jemmis

doi:10.1039/b406494a

Reduction of 1,4-dichlorobut-2-yne by titanocene to a 1,2,3-butatriene. Formation of a 1-titanacyclopent-3-yne and a 2,5-dititanabicyclo[2.2.0]hex-1(4)-ene

Chem Commun (Camb). 2004 Sep 21:(18):2074-5. doi: 10.1039/b406494a. Epub 2004 Aug 11.

Authors

Vladimir V Burlakov¹, Perdita Arndt, Wolfgang Baumann, Anke Spannenberg, Uwe Rosenthal, Pattiyil Parameswaran, Eluvathingal D Jemmis

Affiliation

¹ Leibniz-Institut fur Organische Katalyse an der Universitat Rostock e.V., Buchbinderstr. 5-6, D-18055 Rostock, Germany.

PMID: 15367981
DOI: 10.1039/b406494a

Abstract

The 2,5-dititanabicyclo[2.2.0]hex-1(4)-ene (bis-titanocene-mu-(Z)-1,2,3-butatriene complex)3 is formed starting from [Cp2Ti(eta2-Me3SiC2SiMe3)] by in situ generated titanocene and 1,4-dichlorobut-2-yne via the 1-titanacyclobut-3-yne (2).