作者:Daniel S. Levine、T. Don Tilley、Richard A. Andersen
DOI:10.1021/acs.organomet.5b00213
日期:2015.10.12
A series of scandium dialkyl complexes, (PNP)ScR2 (R = neopentyl, trimethylsilylmethyl), supported by the monoanionic, chelating PNP ligand (2,5-bis(dialkylphosphinomethyl)-pyrrolide; alkyl = cydohexyl, tert-butyl) was synthesized, and the reactivities of these complexes toward simple hydrocarbons was investigated. The scandium-carbon bonds undergo sigma-bond metathesis reactions with hydrogen, and these complexes are catalysts for the hydrogenation of alkenes. Reactions with primary amines led to formation of amido complexes that undergo cyclometalation via sigma-bond metathesis, without involvement of an imido complex intermediate. A variety of carbon-hydrogen bonds are also activated, including sp-, sp(2)-, and sp(3)-C-H bonds (intramolecularly in the latter case).