碳硼烷和碳硼炔金属配合物中金属-碳键的化学性质

Unique chemical properties of metal-carbon bonds in metal-carboranyl and metal-carboryne complexes

碳硼烷和碳硼炔金属配合物中的金属-碳键具有不同于经典金属-碳键的化学性质.一方面,二十面体碳硼烷独特的电子和空间效应使得碳硼烷金属配合物中的金属-碳键不参与和不饱和分子的反应;另一方面,在一定条件下具有大空间位阻的碳硼笼可以诱导某些碳-碳偶联反应.然而,碳硼炔金属配合物中的金属-碳键能与多种不饱和分子发生反应,其反应模式取决于中心金属离子的电子构型.本文简要总结了我们近期在这方面的研究进展.

The metal-carbon bonds in metal-carboranyl and metal-carboryne complexes behave very differently from those in classical organometallic complexes. The unique electronic and steric properties of icosahedral carboranyl moiety make the M--C bond in metal-carboranyl complexes inert toward unsaturated molecules, and on the other hand, the sterically demanding carborane cage can induce unexpected C--C coupling reactions. The M--C bonds in metal-carboryne complexes are, however, active toward various kinds of unsaturated molecules and the reactivity patterns are dependent upon the electronic configurations of the metal ions. This account provides an overview of our recent work in this area.