Abstract:The nucleophilic addition of allylplatinum to a range of electrophiles including carbonyls, oximes, and hydrazones was examined. Platinum(II) catalysts and allene substrates were subject to hydrogenation conditions to generate nucleophilic allylplatinum complexes without using a stoichiometric amount of toxic and sensitive organometallic reagents. The allylplatinum intermediates reacted with C=O and C=N bonds to produce the corresponding homoallylic alcohol and amine derivatives in good yield. The Pt-catalyzed allylation of C=N bonds is the first example performed under hydrogenation conditions. A reaction mechanism initiated with the hydrometalation of allenes by Pt À H species is proposed based on deuterium labeling studies.Keywords: allylation; cyclization; hydrazones; hydrogenation; platinumThe transition metal-catalyzed allylation of aldehydes and imines has attracted considerable attention due to the synthetic utility of corresponding homoallylic alcohol and amine products as well as the interesting reactivity of the allyl-transition metal complex during the reaction. [1,2,3,4] To accomplish such allylations using a catalytic amount of transition metal complexes and allylic acetates or allenes as starting materials, a range of protocols utilizing stoichiometric amounts of organometallic reagents (tin, [2a,b,d,e,3c] zinc, [2c,h,i,j,m,p] indium, [2f,3a,b] borane, [2o,s,t,u] and silane [2k,q,r] ) which reverse the reactivity of the allyl-metal complexes from electrophilic to nucleophilic have been investigated. Recently, the reactions of nucleophilic allyl-iridium complexes were reported under transfer hydrogenation conditions where the use of metallic reductants were avoided.[5]Our continuing effort to develop nucleophilic Pt complex-catalyzed reactions under environmentally benign conditions without the use of large amounts of organometallic reagents prompts us to examine the reaction conditions to form a nucleophilic allyl-platinum complex from allenes, Pt catalysts, and hydrogen. Similar to allyl-palladium complexes, allyl-platinum complexes have been applied to electrophilic catalytic reactions such as allylic alkylations but, to the best of our knowledge, there is no report of the reaction of nucleophilic allyl-platinum complexes.[6] Based on Ptcatalyzed hydrogenative coupling reactions using a range of p systems investigated by our group, [7] Pt À H species formed from the Pt complex and hydrogen react with the allene to form a nucleophilic allyl-platinum species. This paper reports the Pt-catalyzed hydrogen-mediated reductive cyclization of allene-carbonyls, allene-oximes and allene-hydrazones where nucleophilic allyl-platinum complexes were generated without large amounts of organometallic reagents. A remarkable aspect of this protocol is that Pt-catalyzed allylations of the ketone and carbon-nitrogen double bonds (e.g., allyl-oximes and allyl-hydrazones) were realized under hydrogenation conditions for the first time. [8,9] Table 1 summarizes the reaction optimization process. Compound...