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Versatile friedel-crafts-type alkylation of benzene derivatives using a molybdenum complex/ortho-chloranil catalytic system
Yamamoto, Yoshihiko,Itonaga, Kouhei
, p. 10705 - 10715 (2008)
A variety of molybdenum complexes catalyze Friedel-Crafts-type alkylation reactions of benzene derivatives with alkenes and alcohols in the presence of an organic oxidant, o-chloranil. The utilization of [Mo(CO)6] and two equivalents of o-chloranil catalytically furnished the hydroarylation product of norbornene with p-xylene at 80°C, whereas [Cr(CO)6] and [W(CO)6] failed to catalyze the same reaction, thus indicating the importance of the molybdenum source. The best results were obtained when a molybdenum(II) complex [CpMoCl(CO)3] (Cp = cyclopentadienyl) was used as a precatalyst. The hydroarylation reactions also took place with styrenes, cyclohexenes, and 1 -hexene as olefin substrates. The electrophilic-substitution mechanism was proposed on the basis of the ortho/para selectivities and the Markovnikov selectivities observed for the hydroarylation products. Our hypothesis was further corroborated by the fact that in the presence of the [CpMoCl(CO)3]/o-chloranil catalytic system, secondary, benzylic, or allylic alcohols participated in the alkylation of benzenes with similar selectivities.
