REACTIONS OF ORTHOMANGANATED ARYL KETONES WITH PHNSO AND RELATED SPECIES - A NEW ROUTE TO ORTHOMANGANATED IMINES

PhN=S=O reacts with some orthomanganated acetophenones to replace the ketone oxygen with a Ph-N group, so generating the corresponding ortho manganated imine. No insertion into the Mn-C bond was observed, in con trast to analogous reactions of SO2. The related PhS(O)(2)N=S=O or (Ph S(O)(2)N=)(2)S did not react under the same conditions. The X-ray crys tal structure of one of the new imine complexes, (N-phenylimino)ethyl] phenyltetracarbonylmanganese, was determined.