Well-shuffled: An unexpected substituent distribution reaction via alkyldiarylsilylium ions leads to a distribution of substituents. Starting from alkyldiaryl silanes, this reaction provides a facile synthetic approach to sterically highly hindered triarylsilylium ions. These silylium ions can be applied in dihydrogen activation reactions.

This paper reports on the potential of titanium compounds as building blocks for supramolecular polygons. Self-assembly reactions of low-valent titanocene units and N-heterocyclic bridging ligands lead to novel titanium-based supramolecular squares. Pyrazine (3), 4,4'-bipyridine (4), and tetrazine (5) were used as bridging ligands, and the acetylene complexes [Cp2Ti{eta2-C2(SiMe3)2}] (1) and [(tBuCp)2Ti{eta2-C2(SiMe3)2}] (2) as sources of titanocene fragments. Molecular rectangles can be synthesized by stepwise reduction of the titanocene dichlorides [Cp(2)TiCl2] and [(tBuCp)2TiCl2] and consecutive coordination of two different bridging ligands. The resulting complexes are the first examples of molecular rectangles containing bent metallocene corner units. Single-crystal X-ray analyses of the tetranuclear compounds revealed the geometric properties of the molecular polygons in the solid state. Comparison of bond lengths and angles in coordinated and free ligands reveals the reduced state of the bridging ligand in the low-valent titanium compounds. The syntheses and properties of these novel, highly air- and moisture-sensitive compounds are discussed.

As you like it: The choice of solvents and substituents at the silicon atom determine what product is formed from carbon dioxide after electrophilic activation by silyl cations (see scheme). Benzoic acid as well as the C‐1 building blocks formic acid and methanol are on the product tableau.

Two independent synthetic routes to η2-imine titanocene complexes were developed. On one hand side, ligand exchange reactions of bis(trimethylsilyl)acetylene by (p-Tolyl)HCNPh (3) employing the Rosenthal reagent Cp2Ti{η2-C2(SiMe3)2} (1) lead to Cp2Ti{η2-(p-Tolyl)CHNPh} (5), exhibiting a titanaaziridine structure. On the other hand, the direct reductive complexation of 3 by using Cp2TiCl2 (2) and Mg as reducing agent leads also to 5, one of the rare known titanoceneaziridines without additional ligands. By using the ketimine (p-Tolyl)2CNPh (4) instead of the aldimine 3, an unexpected coordination mode was found by X-ray diffraction, exhibiting an azatitanacyclopent-4-ene structure involving one tolyl fragment. In such a way, via the reductive complexation of 4, employing 2 or Cp*TiCl3 (12), the 1-aza-2-titanacyclopent-4-ene complexes 6 and 13 are formed. Density functional calculations at the M06-2X level identify these new complexes 6 and 13 as 1-aza-2-titanacyclopent-4-enes, in agreement with an analysis based on the experimental structural parameters. A theoretical study of the bonding between the titanocene fragment and the imine ligand reveals that steric factors are more pronounced for titanaaziridines and disfavor their formation compared to azatitanacyclopentenes. This provides a rationalization for the preferred formation of titanoceneaziridines in the case of aldimine ligands and azatitanacyclopentenes when ketimines are applied. Whereas titanoceneaziridine 5 undergoes insertion reactions into the Ti–C carbon σ-bond with aldehydes, ketones, or carbodiimides to the five-membered titanacycles 20 and 21, complex 6 appears to be inert in comparable reactions.

We report the spontaneous coupling of N-heterocycles, initiated by C-H bond activation reactions. The reaction of quinoxalines and the titanocene acetylene complex Cp2Ti{eta2-C2(SiMe3)2}, as an excellent titanocene source, results in the formation of trinuclear 1,6,7,12,13,18-hexaazatrinaphthylene (HATN) titanium complexes. These HATN titanium complexes are thermally stable but sensitive to air and moisture. A three-fold dehydrogenative C-C coupling is proposed as the main step in the presented synthetic procedure. Particularly using commercial starting materials, an efficient route for the dehydrogenative coupling of N-heterocycles, leading to multidentate ligands, has been established.

Racemic dissymmetric 2,2'‐dihydroxy‐9,9'‐spirobifluorene was prepared and resolved by clathrate formation with (R,R)‐(+)‐2,3‐dimethoxy‐N,N,N',N'‐tetracyclohexylsuccindiamide, giving rise to both enantiomers in very good yields. The absolute stereochemistry of the resolved material could be assigned by an X‐ray structure analysis of single crystals of the clathrate. Enantiomerically pure diols could be transformed into the corresponding ditriflates, which were then used as starting materials in different cross‐coupling procedures to provide a number of new enantiomerically pure spiro compounds bearing versatile functional groups suitable for further elaboration, as demonstrated by some examples. (© Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2005)

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