摘要:
A new class of trifluoroborate functionalised N-heterocyclic carbene precursors have been synthesised, isolated and characterised structurally. The ligands were obtained via a serendipitous one-pot reaction in which deprotection, cyclisation and fluorination of boryl-functionalised diarylethylenediamine derivatives occur concurrently. Deprotonation of the imidazolium salts was found to yield the free carbene, though 18-crown-6 was found necessary to prevent further reactivity of the resulting aryl potassium trifluoroborate salts; in the absence of 18-crown-6, elimination of KF resulted in a cyclic carbene-BF2 arene adduct. Complexation to rhodium was facile, and yielded four-coordinate complexes in which the Rh-BF3 interaction was determined by F-19 NMR spectroscopy to be weak. (C) 2010 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.