Evidence of a Donor–Acceptor (Ir–H)→SiR<sub>3</sub>Interaction in a Trapped Ir(III) Silane Catalytic Intermediate
作者:Mustapha Hamdaoui、Marjolaine Ney、Vivien Sarda、Lydia Karmazin、Corinne Bailly、Nicolas Sieffert、Sebastian Dohm、Andreas Hansen、Stefan Grimme、Jean-Pierre Djukic
DOI:10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00248
日期:2016.7.11
The ionic iridacycle [(2-phenylenepyridine-kappa N,kappa C)-IrCp*(NCMe)][BArF24] ([2][BArF24]) displays a remarkable capability to catalyze the O-dehydrosilylation of alcohols at room temperature (0.4 x 10(3) < TON < 10(3), 8 x 10(3) < TOFi < 1.9 x 10(5) h(-1) for primary alcohols) that is explained by its exothermic reaction with Et3SiH, which affords the new cationic hydrido-Ir(III)-silylium species [3][BArF24]. Isothermal calorimetric titration (ITC) indicates that the reaction of [2][BArF24] with Et3SiH requires 3 equiv of the latter and releases an enthalpy of -46 kcal/mol in chlorobenzene. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicate that the therrnochemistry of this reaction is largely dominated by the concomitant bis-hydrosilylation of the released MeCN ligand. Attempts to produce [3][BF4] and [3][OTf] salts resulted in the formation of a known neutral hydrido-iridium(III) complex, i.e. 4, and the release of Et3SiF and Et3SiOTf, respectively. In both cases formation of the cationic p-hydrido-bridged bis-iridacyclic complexes [5][BF4] and [5][OTf], respectively, was observed. The structure of [5][OTf] was established by X-ray diffraction analysis. Conversion of [3] [BArF24] into 4 upon reaction with either 4-N,N-dimethylaminopyridine or [nBu(4)][OTf] indicates that the Ir center holds a +III formal oxidation state and that the Et3Si+ moiety behaves as a Z-type ligand according to Green's formalism. [3][BArF24], which was trapped and structurally characterized and its electronic structure investigated by state-of-the-art DFT methods (DFT-D, EDA, ETS-NOCV, QTAIM, ELF, NCI plots and NBO), displays the features of a cohesive hydridoiridium(III)-> silylium donor-acceptor complex. This study suggests that the fate of [3](+) in the O-dehydrosilylation of alcohols is conditioned by the nature of the associated counteranion and by the absence of Lewis base in the medium capable of irreversibly capturing the silylium species.