Mechanistic Studies on Gold-Catalyzed Direct Arene C–H Bond Functionalization by Carbene Insertion: The Coinage-Metal Effect
作者:Manuel R. Fructos、Maria Besora、Ataualpa A. C Braga、M. Mar Díaz-Requejo、Feliu Maseras、Pedro J. Pérez
DOI:10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00604
日期:2017.1.9
The catalytic functionalization of the C-sp(2)-H bond of benzene by means of the insertion of the CHCO2Et group from ethyl diazoacetate (N-2=CHCO2Et) has been studied with the series of coinage-metal complexes IPrMCl (IPr = 1,3-bis(diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) and NaBAr4F (BAr4F = tetrakis(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)borate). For Cu and Ag, these examples constitute the first use of such metals toward this transformation, which also provides ethyl cyclohepta-2,4,6-trienecarboxylate as a byproduct from the so-called Buchner reaction. In the case of methyl-substituted benzenes, the reaction exclusively proceeds onto the aromatic ring, the C-sp(2)-H bond remaining unreacted. A significant coinage-metal effect has been observed, since the gold catalyst favors the formation of the insertion product into the C-sp(2)-H bond whereas copper and silver preferentially induce the formation of the cycloheptatriene derivative. Experimental studies and theoretical calculations have explained the observed selectivity in terms of the formation of a common Wheland intermediate, resembling an electrophilic aromatic substitution, from which the reaction pathway evolves into two separate routes to each product.