Monofluorinated indolizines 4, benzo[d]indolizines 7 and 4H-pyrrolo[1,2-a]benzimidazoles 8 were synthesized in moderate yields by 1,3-dipolar reaction between fluorinated vinyl tosylates 2a and N-ylides of pyridinium, isoquinolinium and benzimidazolinium, generated in situ from their halides salts. When the same N-ylides were allowed to react with 2,3,3-trifluoro-1-propenyl tosylate 2b, the unexpected product formylated indolizines and their derivatives 9 were obtained. The reaction mechanism is also proposed.

The intermolecular additions of alkyl halides to per-(or poly)fluorophenyl aromatic aldimines using zinc as a single-electron-transfer radical initiator have been studied in aqueous media. The reaction proceeds well for imines with different substituents at room temperature under air atmosphere and the corresponding fluorine-containing amines and 1,2-diamines are obtained in poor to good yields. A tentative reaction mechanism is proposed.

A versatile compound, Me2Si(C9H7)(C2B10H11) can be conveniently converted into the monoanion [Me2Si(C9H6)(C2B10H11)]Na, the dianion [Me2Si(C9H6)(C2B10H10)]Na2, and the trianion [Me2Si(C9H6)(C2B10H11)]K3 by treatment with 1 equiv or excess amounts of NaH or K metal in THF, respectively. Reaction of LnCl3 with 1 equiv of [Me2Si(C9H6)(C2B10H11)]Na in THF gave dichloride complexes [η5-Me2Si(C9H6)(C2B10H11)]LnCl2(THF)3 (Ln) Nd (1), Er (2)). They can further react with another equivalent of [Me2Si(C9H6)(C2B10H11)]Na to afford monochloride complexes [η5-Me2Si(C9H6)(C2B10H11)]2LnCl(THF)2 (Ln) Ce (3), Nd (4), Sm (5), Er (6)), which can also be prepared by treatment of LnCl3 with 2 equiv of [Me2Si(C9H6)-(C2B10H11)]Na in THF. 4 reacts with excess NaH in THF to produce [Na(THF)6][{η5:σ-Me2-Si(C9H6)(C2B10H10)}2Nd] (7), which can also be prepared from the reaction of NdCl3 with 2 equiv of [Me2Si(C9H6)(C2B10H10)]Na2 in THF. Treatment of 2 with 2 equiv of K metal at room temperature yielded [η5:η6-Me2Si(C9H6)(C2B10H11)]Er(THF)2 (8). Reaction of 6 with 1 equiv of NaH afforded [{η5:σ-Me2Si(C9H6)(C2B10H10)}{η5-Me2Si(C9H6)(C2B10H11)}]Er(μ-Cl)-Na(THF)3 (9), which can also be prepared from the reaction of 2 with 1 equiv of [Me2Si-(C9H6)(C2B10H10)]Na2 in THF. Treatment of 9 with a mixture of 1 equiv of NaOH and excess NaH in THF generated the dinuclear complex [Na2(THF)11][{η5:σ-Me2Si(C9H6)(C2B10H10)}-{μ-η5:σ-(C9H6)SiMe2O}Er]2 (10). Treatment of Me2Si(C9H7)(C2B10H11) with excess NaH in THF under UV-light followed by reaction with 1 equiv of LnCl3 resulted in the isolation of unprecedented biscarborane compounds [LnCl2(THF)5][μ-CH-(closo-C2B10H11)-nido-CB10H11] (Ln) Er (11), Y (12)). All of these complexes were characterized by various spectroscopic and elemental analyses. The solid-state structures of 7 and 9-12 were confirmed by singlecrystal X-ray analyses.

Several new 13-vertex closo-metallacarboranes of rare earths incorporating nido-and arachno-carborane ligands have been prepared and structurally characterized. They represent a new class of metallacarboranes bearing a h7-carboranyl ligand recently discovered in our laboratory. This work indicates that the substituents on carborane cage carbons may affect the overall molecular structures of the resultant 13-vertex closo-metallacarborane complexes, but have little influence on the interactions between the central metal ion and nido- or arachno-carborane ligand.

Reaction of Me2Si(C5H5)Cl with 1 equiv of Li2C2B10H10 in toluene/ether at 0℃, after hydrolysis, gave Me2Si(C5H5)(C2B10H11) (1) in 79% isolated yield. 1 can be conveniently converted into the monoanion [Me2Si(C5H4)(C2B10H11)]Na (2), the dianion [Me2Si(C5H4)-(C2B10H10)]Li2 (3), and the trianion [Me2Si(C5H4)(C2B10H11)]K3 (4) by treatment with NaH, MeLi, and K metal in THF at room temperature, respectively. 2 reacted with 1 equiv of LnCl3 in THF to give [η5-Me2Si(C5H4)(C2B10H11)]LnCl2(THF)3 (Ln) Nd (5), Sm (6), Er (7), Yb (8)) in good yield. Treatment of LnCl3 with 2 equiv of 2 or reaction of [è5-Me2Si(C5H4)-(C2B10H11)]LnCl2(THF)3 with an equimolar amount of 2 in THF resulted in the isolation of [η5-Me2Si(C5H4)(C2B10H11)]2LnCl(THF)2 (Ln) Nd (9), Sm (10), Y (11), Gd (12), Yb (13)) in good yield. Interaction of 3 with LnCl3 in THF in a molar ratio of 1∶1 or 2∶1 or reaction of [η5-Me2Si(C5H4)(C2B10H11)]2LnCl(THF)2 with 2 equiv of MeLi in THF gave the same compounds [{η5:σ-Me2Si(C5H4)(C2B10H10)}2Ln][Li(THF)4] (Ln) Nd (14), Y (15), Er (16), Yb (17)). Treatment of NdCl3 with an equimolar amount of 4 in THF or reaction of [η5-Me2Si-(C5H4)(C2B10H11)]NdCl2(THF)3 with excess K metal in THF produced [η5:η6-Me2Si(C5H4)-(C2B10H11)]Nd(THF)2 (18). Under similar reaction conditions, however, interaction of LnCl3 (Ln) Sm, Yb) with 4 in THF afforded the organolanthanide(Ⅱ) compounds {[η5:η6-Me2Si-(C5H4)(C2B10H11)]LnII(THF)2}{K(THF)2} (Ln) Sm (20), Yb (21)). The Sm analogue of 18, [η5:η6-Me2Si(C5H4)(C2B10H11)]Sm(THF)2 (19), was prepared from an unprecedented redox reaction of SmI2 with 2 equiv of 2 in THF. Reaction of 19 with excess K metal in THF gave 20. Unlike the SmI2 case, interaction of YbI2 with 2 equiv of 2 in THF gave [η5-Me2Si(C5H4)-(C2B10H11)]2YbII(THF)2 (22). All of these compounds were characterized by various spectroscopic and elemental analyses. The solid-state structures of compounds 5, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, and 22 were confirmed by single-crystal X-ray analyses. The reaction mechanism of the formation of 19 is also proposed.