A comparison of electron transfer reagents in the reductive opening of epoxides: reasons for the superiority of titanocene based complexes
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Several commonly used electron transfer reagents were compared in their reactivity towards three epoxides. These substrates were designed to allow for a distinction between competing courses of the reaction. It was found that titanocene reagents were clearly superior due to their low Lewis acidity, high reduction tendency towards epoxides, and low reduction tendency towards the pivotal P-metal oxy radical intermediates. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Conceptually novel homolytic substitutions (SH2) of ClCp2Ti−O bonds with benzylic, secondary and tertiary alkyl radicals are described. The intermediates and crucial transition structures were studied by DFT methods. The resulting atom economical radicaltandemreaction can be utilized for the synthesis of structurally complex tetrahydrofurans from simple starting materials and is therefore of interest
In a combined theoretical and experimental study, an efficient catalytic reaction featuring epoxide opening and tetrahydrofuran formation through homolytic substitution reactions at C-O and Ti-O bonds was devised. The performance of these two key steps of the catalytic cycle was studied and could be adjusted by modifying the electronic properties of the catalysts through introduction of electron-donating or -withdrawing substituents to the titanocene catalysts. By regarding both steps as single electron versions of oxidative addition and reductive elimination, a mechanism-based platform for the design of catalysts and reagents-for electron transfer reactions evolved that opens broad perspectives for further investigations.
A Radical Tandem Reaction with Homolytic Cleavage of a TiO Bond
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TiX Complexes for Sustainable Catalysis in Single‐Electron Steps
作者:Ruben B. Richrath、Theresa Olyschläger、Sven Hildebrandt、Daniel G. Enny、Godfred D. Fianu、Robert A. Flowers、Andreas Gansäuer
DOI:10.1002/chem.201705707
日期:2018.4.25
electrochemical, kinetic, and synthetic study with a novel and easily accessible class of titanocene catalysts for catalysis in single‐electron steps. The tailoring of the electronic properties of our Cp2TiX‐catalysts that are prepared in situ from readily available Cp2TiX2 is achieved by varying the anionic ligand X. Of the complexes investigated, Cp2TiOMs proved to be either equal or substantially superior to
A comparison of electron transfer reagents in the reductive opening of epoxides: reasons for the superiority of titanocene based complexes
作者:Andreas Gansäuer、Björn Rinker
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4020(02)00697-x
日期:2002.8
Several commonly used electron transfer reagents were compared in their reactivity towards three epoxides. These substrates were designed to allow for a distinction between competing courses of the reaction. It was found that titanocene reagents were clearly superior due to their low Lewis acidity, high reduction tendency towards epoxides, and low reduction tendency towards the pivotal P-metal oxy radical intermediates. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.