Intermolecular C–H Activations of Hydrocarbons Initiated by a Tungsten Trimethylsilylallyl Complex
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Abstract
Thermolysis of Cp*W(NO)(Npt)(η 3 -CH 2 CHCHSiMe 3 ) [Cp* = η 5 -C 5 Me 5; Npt = CH 2 CMe 3 ] at 55 °C leads to the loss of neopentane and the formation of the 16-electron η 2 -allene intermediate Cp*W(NO)(η 2 -CH 2 ═C═CHSiMe 3 ), which activates hydrocarbons at their methyl groups. In the case of linear alkanes, only terminal C–H activation occurs. This selectivity persists in the presence of an ether functionality, but not with other oxygen-containing substrates such as aldehydes and alcohols. With these latter substrates, the organometallic complex is oxidized to Cp*W(O) 2 (Npt). The existence of the allene intermediate has been confirmed by its reaction with PMe 3 to form the 18-electron adduct and by its diagnostic reaction with cyclohexene. Carbonylation of Cp*W(NO)(Npt)(η 3 -CH 2 CHCHSiMe 3 ) with CO (550 psig) at room temperature results in the clean formation of the corresponding Cp*W(NO)(η 1 -C(═O)Npt)(η 3 -CH 2 CHCHSiMe 3 ) complex, which exists as a mixture of two interconverting isomers differing in their modes of attachment of the (η 3 -CH 2 CHCHSiMe 3 ) ligands to the tungsten centers. The congeneric molybdenum complex, Cp*Mo(NO)(Npt)(η 3 -CH 2 CHCHSiMe 3 ), has also been synthesized, and although it generates the requisite η 2 -allene intermediate upon thermolysis, its preferred mode of reactivity is coupling of the allyl and alkyl ligands. Consequently, the molybdenum complex is inferior to the tungsten system for effecting C–H activations. All new complexes have been characterized by conventional spectroscopic and analytical methods, and the solid-state molecular structures of most of them have been established by single-crystal X-ray crystallographic analyses.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.032 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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