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Diene complexes

(singlet. CO), 105.0 (singlet. ~(CH,) 3 53.0 (triplet, J(CH), 158 Hz. C(~H 2 ) 2 ), and in

the gas phase by electron diffraction.

~

---i~

Fe

/Î""'

c c co

o o

~O~L/

~COCH 3

----~

Fe

(C0) 3

The Diels-Alder reaction is a [4 + 2] cycloaddition between a diene and a

dienophile (a substituted alkene or alkyne). It leads to the formation of sixmembered

rings. Trost has developed a related procedure for making fivemembered

rings. A trimethylenemethane, briefly trapped as its palladium

complex, adds to an alkene, which is activated by an electron-withdrawing

group.

=\+(- =0x '' ( + ( _ ux

+

Trimethylenemethane

cycloaddition

(X= electron-withdrawing group)

Diels-Alder

Suitable precursors are allylic acetates with Me,SiCH 2 substituents at the 2-

position.

(SiMe3

Ă "-OAc

7 CH

PdLn

1

R

strongly

fa voured

In the presence of a palladium(O) complex, which acts as a catalyst, the precursor

eliminates Me,SiOAc to form, fleetingly, a trimethylenemethane palladium

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