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Z-selective semihydrogenation of alkynes catalyzed by a cationic vanadium bisimido complex
La Pierre, Henry S.,Arnold, John,Toste, F. Dean
, p. 3900 - 3903 (2011)
Early metal gets the H: Under 1 atm of H2, the vanadium complex 1 (PFTB=perfluoro-tert-butoxide) catalytically semihydrogenates alkynes to Z alkenes. Synthetic and DFT studies, in combination with H2/D 2 and NMR experiments, indicate that H2 is activated by 1,2-addition to 1. Upon insertion of an alkyne into the V-H bond of A, the product alkene and 1 are generated by the 1,2-α-NH-elimination of the alkenyl ligand.