名称:
Synthesis, Structures, and Norbornene Polymerization Behavior of Aryloxide-N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligated Palladacycles
摘要:
Treatment of the o-hydroxyaryl imidazolinium pro-ligands (2-OH-3,5-(Bu2C6H2)-Bu-t)(R)(C3H3N2)Br-+(-) [R = Me (3a), Pr-i (3b), Bu-t (3c), Ph (3d), Mes (3e)] with the palladacycle [Pd(dmba)(mu-Cl)](2) (dmba = Me2NCH2C6H5) (2) afforded the corresponding aryloxide-NHC (NHC = N-heterocyclic carbene)-ligated palladacycles (2-O-3,5-(Bu2C6H2)-Bu-t)(R)(NHC)Pd(dmba) [R = Me (4), Pr-t (5), Ph (6), Mes (7), Bu-t (8)]. Notably, without isolating 2, complexes 4-8 could also be obtained by one-pot, three-component, sequential reaction of N,N-dimethylbenzylamine, PdCl2, and the pro-ligands in refluxing acetonitrile in the presence of K2CO3. When the N-functional group on the NHCs is tert-butyl, the NHC in 8 adopts an abnormal binding (C4-bonding). All these complexes were fully characterized by H-1 and C-13 NMR, high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), and elemental analysis. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis results further confirmed the molecular structures of 4-8 and the abnormal binding of NHC in 8. With methylaluminoxane (MAO) as cocatalyst these palladacycles showed excellent catalytic activities up to 10(7) g of PNB (mol of Pd)(-1) h(-1) in the addition polymerization of norbornene.