The replacement of an acetate ligand for carbonate leads to a reversal in site-selectivity in the Pd-mediated CâH oxidative coupling of benzo[h]quinoline with 1,3-dimethoxybenzene. This report describes Density Functional Theory studies designed to elucidate the origin of this selectivity change. These studies focused on two key mechanistic steps: CâH activation and CâC bond-forming reductive elimination. We considered monometallic and bimetallic reaction pathways for acetate and carbonate conditions. The favored CâH activation pathway proceeds via a concerted metalation deprotonation (CMD) mechanism, independent of the nature of anionic ligand (acetate versus carbonate). The predicted selectivity is ortho/para for the CâH activation for both the acetate and carbonate-ligated Pd complexes. Further, we determined that the reductive elimination step is greatly facilitated by the coordination of benzoquinone (by ÎÎGâ¡ â¼ 20 kcal molâ1) and is predicted to be metaâmeta selective with both anionic ligands. Overall, the DFT studies indicate that the anionic ligand does not induce a mechanism change at the elementary steps, and the predicted selectivity at all steps is equivalent for carbonate and acetate, no matter whether a dinuclear or mononuclear pathway is considered. These studies lead us to propose that the role of the anionic ligand is to control which step of the mechanism is overall selectivity-determining. This proposal has been tested experimentally using appropriately designed experiments. Notably, the insoluble base MgO as an acid trap under acetate conditions (with the aim of making the CâH insertion step less reversible), gave rise to predominant ortho/para selectivity in the presence of acetate, in analogy to the results previously seen under carbonate conditions.
在
钯介导的 1,3-二
甲氧基苯与苯并[h]
喹啉的 CâH 氧化偶联反应中,用
碳酸盐取代
醋酸盐配体会导致位点选择性的逆转。本报告介绍了旨在阐明这种选择性变化根源的密度泛函理论研究。这些研究侧重于两个关键的机理步骤:CâH 活化和 CâC 成键还原消除。我们考虑了
醋酸盐和
碳酸盐条件下的单
金属和双
金属反应途径。受青睐的 CâH 活化途径是通过协同
金属化去质子化(CMD)机制进行的,与阴离子
配体的性质(
醋酸盐还是
碳酸盐)无关。对于
醋酸盐和
碳酸盐配位的
钯复合物,预测的 CâH 活化选择性为正/副选择性。此外,我们还确定,苯醌的配位(δGâ¡ â¼ 20 kcal molâ1)极大地促进了还原消除步骤,并预测这两种阴离子
配体都具有元选择性。总体而言,DFT 研究表明,阴离子
配体不会引起基本步骤的机理变化,而且无论考虑双核还是单核途径,
碳酸酯和
醋酸酯在所有步骤的预测选择性都是相同的。这些研究使我们提出,阴离子
配体的作用是控制机理中哪一步对总体选择性起决定作用。我们通过适当设计的实验对这一观点进行了验证。值得注意的是,在
醋酸盐条件下,将不溶性碱 MgO 作为酸阱(目的是降低 CâH 插入步骤的可逆性),在
醋酸盐存在的情况下产生了主要的正/副选择性,这与之前在
碳酸盐条件下看到的结果类似。