Abstract
Tricarbonyl-η 6 -cyclooctatetraene-chromium(0) (1) reacts photochemically with 6-mono- and 6,6-disubstituted fulvenes (2-7) in a substitution-oxidative rearrangement-reaction to dicarbonyl-η-1′-3':1″-5″-(cycloocta-2′,4′,6′-trien-1′,8′-ylene-cyclopentadienylidene-methane)chromium complexes (8−13). Tricarbonyl-η-6,6-dimethylfulvene-chromium(0) (16) reacts with cyclooctatetraene, bicyclo[6,1,0]nona-2,4,6-triene and anti-9-methoxybicyclo-[6,1,0]nona-2,4,6-triene in a similar manner and forms 8 and 2-bicyclo[6,1,0]nona-4′,6′-dien-2′,3′-ylene-2-cyclopentadienylidene-propane complexes (19, 20). In addition to 13 6-dimethylaminofulvene (7) yields with 1 dicarbonyl-η-1′,6′,7′: 1 ″ -5 ″ -(2-cyclohepta-2′,4′,6′-trien-7′-ylidene-1 -cyclopentadienylidene-1-dimethylamino-ethane)-chromium (14) which involves an unexpected contraction of the eight-membered ring. The constitutions of 8−15 and 19−20 were determined by IR and NMR spectroscopy. In Cr(CO) 2 [C(C 6 H 5 ) 2 (C 5 H 4 )(C 8 H 8 )] (9) one of the phenyl groups shows hindered rotation around its two fold axis.