Lewis acidity enhancement of organoboranes via oxidation of appended ferrocene moieties
作者:Krishnan Venkatasubbaiah、Israel Nowik、Rolfe H. Herber、Frieder Jäkle
DOI:10.1039/b701807j
日期:——
The Lewis acidity of boron in diboradiferrocene 1 is strongly enhanced through oxidation of the iron atoms as evident from examination of X-ray structural parameters of the mixed-valent cation 1(+)PF(6) and further confirmed from the strong complexation of MeCN to the dication in 2(2+)(I(3))(2).
Examination of the Pyridine Binding to the Bifunctional Lewis Acid B,B′-Diphenyldiboradiferrocene
作者:Thilagar Pakkirisamy、Krishnan Venkatasubbaiah、W. Scott Kassel、Arnold L. Rheingold、Frieder Jäkle
DOI:10.1021/om8001608
日期:2008.7.1
The binding behavior of the bifunctional Lewis acid (775-C5H5Fe)(2)[mu-(C5H3(BPh))(2)] (3) toward different pyridine derivatives as the Lewis base has been investigated. The 1: 1 and 1:2 adducts, 3 center dot D and 3 center dot D2 (donor, D = 4-tert-butylpyridine (tBupy) and 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP)), were obtained by low-temperature crystallization or slow solvent evaporation techniques. The complexes were fully characterized by multinuclear NMR, IR, and elemental analysis. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction data were collected for the 1: 1 adduct with DMAP and for both 1: 2 adducts, and the marked structural changes upon pyridine binding are discussed in detail. In solution, the 1:2 adducts were found to readily undergo dissociation with formation of the 1:1 adducts as the dominant species at room temperature. Variable-temperature NMR and UV-visible titration studies demonstrate that the first binding process is more than 5 orders of magnitude more favorable than the second binding process.