Abstract
The carboxylation of unsaturated amine and alcohol compounds, including 4-benzylamino-1-phenyl-1-butyne (homopropargylamine), 2-butyne-1-ol (propargylic alcohol), and 2,3-butadiene-1-ol (allenylmethyl alcohol), using the hydroxidogold(I) complex, AuOH(IPr) [IPr = 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-imidazol-2-ylidene], produces corresponding alkenylgold(I) complexes with a cyclic urethane or carbonate framework in high yields. The reaction takes place in aprotic THF at room temperature under the atmospheric pressure of CO2 in the absence of base additives. The products were characterized by NMR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, and X-ray crystallography. The functionalized alkenyl complexes prepared from the alkynes can be protonated by treatment with an equimolar amount of acetic acid to afford five- or six-membered carboxylation products, whereas the related alkenyl complex derived from allenylmethyl alcohol decomposed to recover the starting allene via ring-opening decarboxylation.
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