Modification of Iron(II) Tridentate Bis(imino)pyridine Complexes by a Boryl Group for the Production of α-Olefins at High Temperature
作者:Alex S. Ionkin、William J. Marshall、Douglas J. Adelman、Barbara Bobik Fones、Brian M. Fish、Matthew F. Schiffhauer
DOI:10.1021/om800036b
日期:2008.4.1
A new series of boryl-substituted bis(imino)pyridine ligands [o-PinacoIB-Ph-N=C(Me)-Py-C(Me)=N- Ph-o-BPinaeoll, Pinacol = (-O-(Me)(2)C-C(Me)(2)-O-) (6), [2,4,6-tri-Me-Ph-N=C(Me)-Py-C(Me)=N-Ph-o-BPinacol] (11), [4-bromo-2,6-di-Me-Ph-N=C(Me)-Py-C(Me)=N-Ph-o-BPinacol] (12), [2,4,6-tri-Me-Ph-N=C(Me)-Py-C(Me)=N-Ph-m-BPinacol] (14), [2,4,6-tri-Me-Ph-N=C(Me)-Py-C(Me)=N-Ph-p-BPinacol] (17), and [4-Bromo-2,6-di-Me-Ph-N=C(Me)-Py-C(Me)=N-Ph-p-BPinacol] (18), and their corresponding Fe(II) complexes [o-PinacolB-Ph-N=C(Me)-Py-C(Me) N-Ph-o-BPinacol)FeCl2] (3), [2,4,6-tri-Me-Ph-N=C(Me)-Py-C(Me)=N-Ph-o-BPinaco}FeCl2] (19), [4-bromo-2,6-di-Me-Ph-N=C(Me)-Py-C(Me)=N-Ph-o-BPinacol} FeCl2] (20), [2,4,6-tri-Me-Ph-N=C (Me)-Py-C(Me)=N-Ph-m-BPinacol}- FeCl2] (21), [2,4,6-tri-Me-Ph-N=C(Me)-Py-C(Me)=N-Ph-p-BPinacol) FeCl2] (22), and [(4-bromo-2,6-di-Me-Ph-N=C(Me)-Py-C(Me)=N-Ph-p-BPinacol)FeCl2] (23) were synthesized. According to X-ray analysis, the introduction of boryl groups in the ortho-positions of the complex as in 3 caused the shortening of the axial Fe-N bond lengths (up to 0.02 angstrom) vs the analogous Fe(II) complex with ortho-methyl groups [o-Me-Ph-N=C(Me)-Py-C(Me)=N-Ph-o-Me)FeCl2], 1. The comparisons of the axial bond lengths in ortho-boryl-substituted isomer 19 with para-boryl -substituted 22 revealed that these bonds are shorter in the ortho-isomer (2.201(11) angstrom) than in the para-isomer (2.232(2) angstrom). An interesting structural feature of 3 is that it exists in the unexpected "up-up" conformer in the solid state, despite reasonable bulkiness of dioxaboranyl substituents in ortho-positions. Complexes 21-23 afforded very productive catalysts for the production of alpha-olefins with a more linear Schultz-Flory distribution and with the least amounts of the heavier insoluble fractions of a-olefins than the parent methyl-substituted Fe(II) complex 1.