- Synthesis of pentafluorobenzene-based NHC adducts and their catalytic activity in the microwave-assisted reactions of aldehydes
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N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have been widely used in organometallic chemistry as ligands, as well as standalone organocatalysts in various reactions, mostly using aromatic aldehydes as substrates. We have previously demonstrated the efficiency of azolium-2-carboxylate zwitterions in the hydroxymethylation of aldehydes, especially aliphatic aldehydes, under microwave irradiation. In the present work, we report a series of pentafluorobenzene-based NHC adducts and their efficiency in the hydroxymethylation and self-condensation of aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes using microwave irradiation. The free carbenes are released under the reaction conditions and 1,3-dimesityl-2-(perfluorophenyl)imidazolidine and 1,3-bis(2,6-dimethylphenyl)-2-(perfluorophenyl)imidazolidine proved to be the most potent precatalysts.
- Papadaki, Evanthia,Magrioti, Victoria
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- β-Amino alcohols from anilines and ethylene glycol through heterogeneous Borrowing Hydrogen reaction
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Borrowing Hydrogen (BH), also called Hydrogen Autotransfer (HA), reaction with neat ethylene glycol represents a key step in the preparation of β-amino alcohols. However, due to the stability of ethylene glycol, mono-activation has rarely been achieved. Herein, a combination of Pd/C and ZnO is reported as heterogeneous catalyst for this BH/HA reaction. This system results in an extremely air and moisture stable, and economic catalyst able to mono-functionalize ethylene glycol in water, without further activation of the diol. In this work, different diols and aromatic amines have been explored affording a new approach towards amino alcohols. This study reveals how the combination of two solid species can afford interesting catalytic properties in heterogeneous phase. ZnO activates ethylene glycol while Pd/C is the responsible of the BH/HA cycle. This catalytic system has also been found useful to dehydrogenate indoles affording indolines that undergo in situ BH/HA cycle prior to re-aromatization, representing a tandem heterogeneous process.
- Llabres-Campaner, Pedro J.,Ballesteros-Garrido, Rafael,Ballesteros, Rafael,Abarca, Belén
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p. 5552 - 5561
(2017/08/22)
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- Controlled acrylate insertion regioselectivity in diazaphospholidine- sulfonato palladium(II) complexes
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Diazaphospholidine-sulfonato Pd(II) complexes [{κ2-P,O-(N- Ar2C2H4N2P)C6H 4SO3}PdMe(L)] 1-L (L = dmso, pyridine, lutidine, or μ-LiCl(solvent); 1a: Ar = Ph, 1b: Ar = 2-MeC6H4, 1c: Ar = 2-MeOC6H4, 1d: Ar = 2,4,6-Me3C 6H2, 1e: Ar = 2,6-iPr2C6H 3, 1f: Ar = 2,6-(p-tolyl)2C6H3) were prepared and structurally characterized. The regioselectivity of methyl acrylate (MA) insertion into the Pd-Me bond is entirely inverted from >93% 1,2-insertion for bulky substituents (1d-f, yielding the insertion products [(PO)Pd{κ2-C,O-CH2CHMeC(O)OMe], 12) to the usual electronically controlled 2,1-insertion (>95%) for the less bulky Ar = Ph (1a, yielding the insertion product [(PO)Pd{κ2-C,O- CHEtC(O)OMe], 11, and β-H elimination product methyl crotonate). DFT studies underline that this is due to a more favorable insertion transition state (2,1- favored by 12 kJ mol-1 over 1,2- for 1a) vs destabilization of the 2,1-insertion transition state in 1d,e. By contrast, MA insertion into the novel isolated and structurally characterized hydride and deuteride complexes [{κ2-P,O-(N-Ar2C 2H4N2P)C6H4SO 3}PdR(lutidine)] (Ar = 2,6-iPr2C6H3; 9e: R = H, 10e: R = D) occurs 2,1-selectively. This is due to the insertion occurring from the isomer with the P-donor and the olefin in trans arrangement, rather than the insertion into the alkyl from the cis isomer in which the olefin is in proximity to the bulky diazaphospholidine. 1a-f are precursors to active catalysts for ethylene polymerization to highly linear polyethylene with M n up to 35 000 g mol-1. In copolymerization experiments, norbornene was incorporated in up to 6.1 mol % into the polyethylene backbone.
- Wucher, Philipp,Roesle, Philipp,Falivene, Laura,Cavallo, Luigi,Caporaso, Lucia,Goettker-Schnetmann, Inigo,Mecking, Stefan
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p. 8505 - 8515
(2013/02/23)
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- Thiadiazolidine 1-oxide systems for phosphine-free palladium-mediated catalysis
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We herein report several highly active catalyst systems with thiadiazolidine 1-oxides as ligands for palladium in the Mizoroki-Heck reaction. Excellent yields of stilbenes derived from aryl iodides and bromides have been achieved using as little as 0.00002 mol % catalyst. The ligand/palladium system can be stored as a stock solution open to air at room temperature with no observable loss of activity for a period of several months.
- Buckley, Benjamin R.,Neary, Stephen P.
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p. 7988 - 7994
(2010/10/21)
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- Triazole-organodithiophosphate reaction product additives for functional fluids
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New reaction products, useful as additives for functional fluids, are obtained by reacting, at elevated temperature, (A) a triazole having the formula IA or IB: STR1 wherein R7 is hydrogen or a C1 -C20 alkyl residue; R8 and R9 are the same or different and each is C1 -C20 alkyl, C3 -C20 alkenyl, C5 -C12 cycloalkyl, C7 -C13 aralkyl, C6 -C10 aryl or R8 and R9, together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, form a 5-, 6- or 7-membered heterocyclic residue or R8 and R9 is each a residue of formula: wherein X is O, S or N(R12), R12 is hydrogen or C1 -C20 alkyl, "alkylene" is a C1 -C12 alkylene residue and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 6; R10 is hydrogen, C1 -C20 alkyl or C6 -C10 aryl or C7 -C18 alkyl phenyl; and R11 is hydrogen, C1 -C20 alkyl or a residue --CH2 NR8 R9 wherein R8 and R9 have their previous significance; with (B) an organodithiophosphate having the formula: STR2 in which R13 is a C1 -C20 alkyl or C7 -C18 alkyl phenyl or C7 -C13 aralkyl group, M is a metal ion of Group IA, IB, IIA, IIB, VB, VIB, VIIB or VIII of the Periodic System of Elements, and y is the valency of M.
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