Synthesis of 1,2-disubstituted cyclopentadienes and their application in syntheses of metallocenes

In this master thesis 1,2-disubstituted cyclopentadienes were prepared by method composed of three transition metal catalysed reactions. Then, the cyclopentadienes were converted into cyclopentadienyl manganese, rhenium and iron complexes. A one-pot synthesis of the cyclopentadienyl metal complexes was developed without isolation of the intermediate cyclopentadienes. The second goal of this thesis was preparation of vinyl-substituted cyclopentadienes using ring closing enyne metathesis. The last part of thesis dealt with synthesis of a chiral cyclopentadiene and preparation of the corresponding metal complexes. The important part of this work was preparation of starting materials using palladium catalysed cross-coupling reactions. Key words: cyclopentadienes, carbometallation, cross-coupling, metathesis, metallocenes