straightforward synthesis of a variety of silver(I) complexes featuring challenging NHC ligands. Stericallyhindered including electron-poor or with very low solubility imidazolium salts were ground with silver(I) oxide to furnish heteroleptic or homoleptic complexes in high yields and short reaction times. The synthesis of heteroleptic bis-NHC silver(I) complexes was also performed for the first time in a
Piano‐Stool Ruthenium <i>N</i>‐Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes for <i>gem</i>‐Specific Catalytic Dimerization of Terminal Alkynes
作者:Kasumi Hayashi、Qiuming Liang、Franka Philippi、Datong Song
DOI:10.1002/ejic.202300168
日期:2023.7.25
A series of piano-stool Ru-NHC (NHC=N-heterocyclic carbene) complexes with various levels of steric congestion have been used as precatalysts in the catalytic dimerization of terminal alkynes. The most congested complexes of this series give 100 % gem-enyne products at ambient temperature when activated with a base.
A dramatic improvement of the catalytic activity was observed when a phosphine was added in allylic alkylation reactions catalyzed by (NHC)Pd(eta(3)-C3H5)Cl complexes. Consequently, several palladium complexes, generated in situ from different NHC-silver complexes, [Pd(eta 3-C3H(5))Cl](2) and PPh3, were tested in this reaction to evaluate their potential. High reaction rates and conversions could be obtained with this catalytic system in the alkylation of allylic acetates with dimethylmalonate, particularly under biphasic conditions using water/dichloromethane and KOH 1 M as the base. These conditions are experimentally more convenient and gave higher reaction rates than the classical anhydrous conditions (NaH/THF). In this system, the phosphine is essential since no conversion was obtained when it is not present. The steric hindrance of the carbene ligand has a great influence on the activity and the stability of the catalytic system. The best NHC ligands for this reaction are either 1-mesityl-3-methyl-imidazol-2-ylidene or 1-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-3-methylimidazol- 2-ylidene which are less bulky among the NHC tested. These two ligands led in 5 min to a complete conversion at 20 degrees C. The Pd-catalyzed allylic amination reaction using (E)-1,3-diphenylprop-3-en-yl acetate and benzylamine was also tested with (NHC)(PPh3)Pd complexes and under the biphasic conditions. This reaction was found to be slower than the alkylation with dimethylmalonate but a ;complete conversion could be reached in 6 h at 20 degrees C using K2CO3 1 M as the base. NMR experiments indicated that mixed (NHC)(PPh3) Pd complexes are formed in situ but their structure could not be established exactly. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.