Advances in Organometallic Chemistry (eBook)

Cover 1
Contents 6
Contributors 8
Chapter 1. Dehydrocoupling of Hydrosilanes to Polysilanes and Silicon Oligomers: A 30 Year Overview 10
I. Introduction 10
II. Promotion of Dehydrocoupling with Metallocene Complexes of Group 4 12
III. Mechanistic Proposals 22
IV. Silanes Involved in Dehydrocoupling 27
V. Characterization of Polysilanes Produced from Dehydrocoupling 43
VI. Dehydrocoupling Initiated by Metals other than Group 4 46
VII. Conclusion 55
Acknowledgments 57
References 57
Chapter 2. Organoelement Compounds Possessing Al–Al, Ga–Ga, In–In, and Tl–Tl Single Bonds 62
I. Introduction 62
II. Formation of E–E Single Bonds by Coordination of Subhalides 63
III. Chalcogen Atoms Coordinating E–E Bonds 68
IV. Homoleptic Dielement Compounds with Pnicogen Atoms Coordinated to E–E Bonds 70
V. Heteroleptic Dielement Compounds Coordinated by Miscellaneous Donor Atoms of Group 15–17 74
VI. Dielement Compounds Containing E–C or E–Si Bonds 77
VII. E–E Bonds in EI–EIII Adducts 103
VIII. Chains and Rings 104
IX. Concluding Remarks 109
References 110
Chapter 3. The (Butadiene)zirconocenes and Related Compounds 118
I. Introduction 118
II. The Unique (s-trans-M4-Conjugated Diene)Metal Complex Family 120
III. Syntheses and Structural Properties of (Butadiene) Group 4 Metal Complexes 126
IV. Stoichiometric Use of the (Butadiene)Metallocenes 136
V. (Butadiene)zirconocenes in Catalysis 148
VI. Concluding Remarks 164
VII. Appendix: Abbreviations 164
Acknowledgments 165
References 165
Chapter 4. Borylenes as Ligands to Transition Metals 172
I. Introduction 172
II. Bridged Borylene Complexes 175
III. Terminal Borylene Complexes 185
IV. Conclusion and Outlook 196
References 196
Chapter 5. Recent Chemistry of the Diboron Compounds 202
I. Introduction 202
II. Preparation of Diboron Compounds and Their Properties 203
III. Reactions of Diboron Compounds 215
IV. Concluding Remarks 253
References 255
Chapter 6. Palladium Catalyzed Reactions in Ionic Liquids 260
I. Introduction 260
II. What are Ionic Liquids? 261
III. Introduction to Palladium Catalysis in Ionic Liquids 265
IV. Heck Reactions 266
V. Allylation/Trost–Tsujii Reactions 274
VI. Cross-coupling Reactions 275
VII. Other Palladium Catalysis in Ionic Liquids 280
VIII. Conclusions 288
IX. Abbreviations 290
References 291
Index 294
Cumulative List of Contributors for Volumes 1–36 300
Cumulative Index for Volumes 37–51 304