Preparation and Properties of, and Reactions with, Metal‐Containing Heterocycles, XVI1) Five‐Membered Tungsten‐, Iron‐, and Nickel‐Containing Metallacycloalkanes
The metallacyclopentanes, (3a–c) [m = 1–3: LnM = h5‐C5H5Ni (3a), h5‐C5H5Fe (3b), h5‐C5H5W (3c)] are obtained by reductive cycloelimination of the complexes Ln(OC)m‐1M(X)PPh2[CH2]3Cl (2a–c) with sodium amalgam. 3b is also formed from h5‐C5H5‐(OC)2FeBr (1b) and PPh2[CH2]3MgCl. 3a,b insert SO2 into their MC σ bond to give the cyclic S‐sulfinates (4a,b).