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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 58, Issue 16, Pages 10508-10515Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01082
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- National Institutes of Health [S10OD011952, 1R35GM119457]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- University of Minnesota
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Despite the ubiquity of reports describing titanium (Ti)-catalyzed [2 + 2 + 2] cyclotrimerization of alkynes, the incorporation of arynes into this potent manifold has never been reported. The in situ generation of arynes often requires fluoride, which instead will react with the highly fluorophilic Ti center, suppressing productive catalysis. Herein, we describe the use of group 4 diarylmetallocenes, (Cp2MAr2)-M-R (Cp-R = C5H5, C5Me5; M = Ti, Zr), as aryne precursors for the Ti-catalyzed synthesis of substituted naphthalenes via coupling with 2 equiv of an alkyne. Fair-to-good yields of the desired naphthalene products could be obtained with 1% catalyst loadings, which is roughly an order of magnitude lower than similar reactions catalyzed by palladium or nickel. Additionally, naphthalenes find broad applications in the electronics, photovoltaics, and pharmaceutical industries, urging the discovery of more economic syntheses. These results indicate that aryne transfer from a (Cp2M)-M-R(eta(2)-aryne) complex to another metal is a viable route for the introduction of aryne fragments into organometallic catalytic processes.
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