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Bismuth Amides Mediate Facile and Highly Selective Pn–Pn Radical-Coupling Reactions (Pn=N, P, As)
Oberdorf, Kai,Hanft, Anna,Ramler, Jacqueline,Krummenacher, Ivo,Bickelhaupt, F. Matthias,Poater, Jordi,Lichtenberg, Crispin
, p. 6441 - 6445 (2021)
The controlled release of well-defined radical species under mild conditions for subsequent use in selective reactions is an important and challenging task in synthetic chemistry. We show here that simple bismuth amide species [Bi(NAr2)3] readily release aminyl radicals [NAr2]. at ambient temperature in solution. These reactions yield the corresponding hydrazines, Ar2N?NAr2, as a result of highly selective N?N coupling. The exploitation of facile homolytic Bi?Pn bond cleavage for Pn?Pn bond formation was extended to higher homologues of the pnictogens (Pn=N–As): homoleptic bismuth amides mediate the highly selective dehydrocoupling of HPnR2 to give R2Pn?PnR2. Analyses by NMR and EPR spectroscopy, single-crystal X-ray diffraction, and DFT calculations reveal low Bi?N homolytic bond-dissociation energies, suggest radical coupling in the coordination sphere of bismuth, and reveal electronic and steric parameters as effective tools to control these reactions.