N-Heterocyclic carbenes: deducing σ- and π-contributions in Rh-catalyzed hydroboration and Pd-catalyzed coupling reactions
作者:Dimitri M. Khramov、Evelyn L. Rosen、Joyce A.V. Er、Peter D. Vu、Vincent M. Lynch、Christopher W. Bielawski
DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2008.04.030
日期:2008.7
The effect of tuning the electronic properties of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands was evaluated in multiple, mechanistically distinct, metal-mediated reactions. Hydroboration and Heck reactions, catalyzed by Rh-NHC and Pd-NHC complexes, respectively, were found to result in yields that were up to ten times lower when pi-withdrawing substituents were incorporated into the NHC backbone relative to analogues bearing sigma-withdrawing groups. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All Fights reserved.