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In organic chemistry, a cumulene is a compound having three or more ''cumulative'' (consecutive) double bonds. They are analogous to allenes, only having a more extensive chain. The simplest molecule in this class is butatriene (), which is also called simply ''cumulene''. Unlike most
The rigidity of cumulenes arises from the fact that the internal carbon atoms carry two double bonds. Their sp hybridisation results in two
In organic chemistry, a cumulene is a compound having three or more ''cumulative'' (consecutive) double bonds. They are analogous to allenes, only having a more extensive chain. The simplest molecule in this class is butatriene (), which is also called simply ''cumulene''. Unlike most alkane
In organic chemistry, an alkane, or paraffin (a historical trivial name that also has other meanings), is an acyclic saturated hydrocarbon. In other words, an alkane consists of hydrogen and carbon atoms arranged in a tree structure in which ...
s and alkenes, cumulenes tend to be rigid, comparable to polyyne
In organic chemistry, a polyyne () is any organic compound with alternating single and triple bonds; that is, a series of consecutive alkynes, with ''n'' greater than 1. These compounds are also called polyacetylenes, especially in the natural p ...
s. Cumulene carbenes for ''n'' from 3 to 6 have been observed in interstellar molecular clouds and in laboratory experiments by using microwave and infrared spectroscopy. (The more stable cumulenes are difficult to detect optically because they lack an electric dipole moment.) Cumulenes containing heteroatoms are called heterocumulenes; an example is carbon suboxide
Carbon suboxide, or tricarbon dioxide, is an organic, oxygen-containing chemical compound with formula and structure . Its four cumulative double bonds make it a cumulene. It is one of the stable members of the series of linear oxocarbons , whi ...
.
Synthesis
The first reported synthesis of a butatriene is that of tetraphenylbutatriene in 1921. The most common synthetic method for butatriene synthesis is based onreductive coupling A coupling reaction in organic chemistry is a general term for a variety of reactions where two fragments are joined together with the aid of a metal catalyst. In one important reaction type, a main group organometallic compound of the type R-M (R = ...
of a geminal dihalovinylidene
Methylidenecarbene (systematically named λ2-ethene and dihydrido-1κ2''H''-dicarbon(''C''—''C'')) is an organic compound with the chemical formula (also written [] or ). It is a metastability, metastable proton tautomer of acetylene, which on ...
. Tetraphenylbutatriene was reported synthesized in 1977 by homocoupling of 2,2-diphenyl-1,1,1-tribromoethane with elemental copper in dimethylformamide.
Structure
The rigidity of cumulenes arises from the fact that the internal carbon atoms carry two double bonds. Their sp hybridisation results in two π bonds
In chemistry, pi bonds (π bonds) are covalent bond, covalent chemical chemical bond, bonds, in each of which two lobes of an atomic orbital, orbital on one atom overlap with two lobes of an orbital on another atom, and in which this overlap oc ...
, one to each neighbor, which are perpendicular to each other. This bonding reinforces a linear geometry of the carbon chain.
Cumulenes with non-equivalent substituents on each end exhibit isomerism
In chemistry, isomers are molecules or polyatomic ions with identical molecular formulae – that is, same number of atoms of each element – but distinct arrangements of atoms in space. Isomerism is existence or possibility of isomers.
Iso ...
. If the number of consecutive double bonds is odd, there is ''cis''–''trans'' isomerism as for alkenes. If the number of consecutive double bonds is even, there is axial chirality
Axial may refer to:
* one of the anatomical directions describing relationships in an animal body
* In geometry:
:* a geometric term of location
:* an axis of rotation
* In chemistry, referring to an axial bond
* a type of modal frame, in music
* ...
as for allenes.
Transition metal cumulenes
The first reported complex containing a vinylidene ligand was (Ph2C2Fe2(CO)8, derived from the reaction of diphenylketene and Fe(CO)5 Structurally, this molecule resembles Fe2(CO)9, wherein one ''μ''-CO ligand is replaced by 1,1-diphenylvinylidene, Ph2C2. The first monometallic vinylidene complex was ( C5H5)Mo( P(C6H5)3)(CO)2 =C(CN)2l.See also
*Cyclopropatriene
Cyclopropatriene is a hypothetical compound () which is an allotrope of carbon. It was once proposed as a candidate for a spectroscopically observed tricarbon species. It is a cyclic cumulene
In organic chemistry, a cumulene is a compound hav ...
and cyclohexahexaene, cyclic cumulenes
References
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