Proton-induced reactivities of ruthenium azido complexes: the first example of boron-carbon bond formation by methylene insertion into a B-H bond

Yih-Hsing Lo; Han-Gung Chen; Ting Shen Kuo

doi:10.1039/c0dt01091j

Proton-induced reactivities of ruthenium azido complexes: the first example of boron-carbon bond formation by methylene insertion into a B-H bond

Dalton Trans. 2011 Mar 28;40(12):2711-5. doi: 10.1039/c0dt01091j. Epub 2011 Feb 15.

Authors

Yih-Hsing Lo¹, Han-Gung Chen, Ting Shen Kuo

Affiliation

¹ Department of Natural Science, Taipei Municipal University of Education, Taipei, 10610, Republic of China. yhlo@tmue.edu.tw

PMID: 21327221
DOI: 10.1039/c0dt01091j

Abstract

Whereas the reaction of Tp(PhCN)(PPh(3))Ru-N(3) {Tp = HB(pz)(3), pz = pyrazolyl} with CH(3)I in CH(2)Cl(2) led to the cationic ruthenium methyleneimine complex [Tp(PPh(3))(PhCN)Ru(NH=CH(2))]I, the analogous reaction with HCl gave rise to the ruthenium chloride complex containing a methyl tris(pyrazolyl)borate ligand (Me)Tp(PPh(3))(PhCN)RuCl, as a result of the highly unusual methylene insertion into a B-H bond of the Tp ligand.