Here we describe a nonclassical interaction between a sulfonyl group in a dicobaltcarbonyl-alkyne complex and a methine moiety attached to three heteroatoms (O, P, S) included in the PuPHOS and CamPHOS ligands. This interaction provides an efficient recognition event that yields up to 86% de in the CO-phosphine exchange reaction. The isomerization mechanism leading to the observed diastereomeric bias was studied computationally at the semiempirical level.
Here we describe a nonclassical interaction between a sulfonyl group in a dicobaltcarbonyl-alkyne complex and a methine moiety attached to three heteroatoms (O, P, S) included in the PuPHOS and CamPHOS ligands. This interaction provides an efficient recognition event that yields up to 86% de in the CO-phosphine exchange reaction. The isomerization mechanism leading to the observed diastereomeric bias was studied computationally at the semiempirical level.