Manganese tricarbonyl transfer (MTT) reagents in the construction of novel organometallic systems

✍ Scribed by Moonhyun Oh; Jeffrey A. Reingold; Gene B. Carpenter; Dwight A. Sweigart

• Book ID: 104010624
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 217 KB
• Volume: 248
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-8545
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2003.12.002

✦ Synopsis

Naphthalene and related conjugated polycyclic arenes readily coordinate through one carbocyclic ring to Mn(CO) 3

• . The resulting complexes, e.g., ( 6 -naphthalene)Mn(CO) 3 + , function as very effective manganese tricarbonyl transfer (MTT) reagents, largely because of facile 6 → 4 ring slippage. The MTT complexes can be used to synthesize a range of novel organometallic systems, including metal-carbonyl-capped metallocenes, and homo-and heteronuclear bimetallic naphthalene complexes. They are also the basis for the complexation and activation of benzothiophenes to desulfurization and of hydroquinones to deprotonation and self-assembly into supramolecular quinonoid coordination networks.