title: Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling of Ethynylated p-Carborane Derivatives: Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Modular Ethynylated p-Carborane Molecules.
abstract: Methodology leading to a new class of rodlike p-carborane derivatives is described, involving the palladium-catalyzed coupling of B-iodinated p-carboranes with terminal alkynes. The products of these reactions contain an alkyne substituent at a boron vertex of the p-carborane cage. Reaction of closo-2-I-1,12-C(2)B(10)H(11) (1) with closo-2-(C&tbd1;CH)-1,12-C(2)B(10)H(11) (3) in the presence of pyrrolidine and catalytic quantities of bis(triphenylphosphine)palladium dichloride and cupric iodide yields 1,2-(closo-1',12'-C(2)B(10)H(11)-2'-yl)(2) acetylene (4). Oxidative coupling of 3 in the presence of cupric chloride in piperidine affords 1,4-(closo-1',12'-C(2)B(10)H(11)-2'-yl)(2)-1,3-butadiyne (5). Reaction of 2 molar equiv. of closo-2,9-I(2)-1,12-C(2)B(10)H(10) (6) withcloso-2,9-(C&tbd1;CH)(2)-1,12-C(2)B(10)H(10) (7) in the presence of pyrrolidine and catalytic quantities of bis(triphenylphosphine)palladium dichloride and cupric iodide yields closo-2,9-(closo-2'-I-9'-C&tbd1;C-1',12'-C(2)B(10)H(10))(2)-1,12-C(2)B(10)H(10) (8), a rigid, iodine-terminated carborod trimer in which the p-carborane cages are linked at the 2 and 9 B-vertices by alkyne (C&tbd1;C) bridges. The molecular structures of 5 and the previously described closo-2,9-(C&tbd1;CSiMe(3))(2)-1,12-C(2)B(10)H(10) (9) have been determined by X-ray crystallography. Crystallographic data are as follows: for 5, monoclinic, space group P2/a, a = 12.352(6) Å, b = 14.169 (6) Å, c = 12.384(5) Å, beta = 109.69(2) degrees, V = 2041 Å(3), Z = 4, R = 0.098, R(w)( )()= 0.135; for 9, monoclinic, space group C2/m, a = 22.111(4) Å, b = 7.565(2) Å, c = 6.943(2) Å, beta = 107.871(8) degrees, V = 1105 Å(3), Z = 2, R = 0.059, R(w)( )()= 0.090.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: David E.
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Harwell
authors.forename: Mark D.
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Mortimer
authors.forename: Carolyn B.
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Knobler
authors.forename: M. Frederick
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Hawthorne