U. Schick et al., CHELATION ISOMERISM IN (ALLYLAMINO)CARBENE COMPLEXES AND ITS IMPACT ON STEREOSELECTION - A STUDY OF COORDINATION EQUILIBRIUM BY DYNAMIC HPLC, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 120(10), 1998, pp. 2283-2289
A study related to isomerism brought about by the two different chelat
ion modes of the residual double bond resulting from the intramolecula
r Pauson-Khand reaction in [(diallylamino) alkynylcarbene] tungsten co
mplexes was undertaken. The presence of a stereogenic center on the ca
rbene ligand in the cycloadduct caused a clear difference in energy be
tween the two diastereomeric forms resulting from alkene chelation. Th
e energy barrier involved in their interconversion was determined by m
eans of dynamic HPLC (D-HPLC) experiments, and its relative high value
was related to the difficulty of the inversion at the nitrogen center
due to structural rigidity.