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Radical mechanisms in the reaction of organic halides with diiminepyridine cobalt complexes
Zhu, Di,Korobkov, Ilia,Budzelaar, Peter H. M.
, p. 3958 - 3971 (2012)
The formally Co(0) complex LCo(N2) (L = 2,6-bis(2,6- dimethylphenyliminoethyl)pyridine) can be prepared via either Na/Hg reduction of LCoCl2 or hydrogenolysis of LCoCH2SiMe3. In the latter reaction, LCoH could be trapped by reaction with N≡CC 6H4-4-Cl to give LCoN=CHC6H4-4-Cl. LCo(N2) reacts with many alkyl and aryl halides RX, including aryl chlorides, to give a mixture of LCoR and LCoX in a halogen atom abstraction mechanism. Intermediacy of free alkyl and aryl radicals is confirmed by the ring-opening of cyclopropylmethyl to crotyl, and the rearrangement of 2,4,6-tBu3C6H2 to 3,5- tBu2C6H3CMe2CH 2, before binding to Co. The organocobalt species generated in this way react further with activated halides R′X (alkyl iodides; allyl and benzyl halides) to give cross-coupling products RR′ in what is most likely again a halogen abstraction mechanism. DFT studies support the proposed radical pathways for both steps. MeI couples smoothly with LCoCH2SiMe 3 to give LCoI and CH3CH2SiMe3, but the analogous reaction of tBuI leads in part to radical attack at the 3 and 4 positions of the pyridine ring to form (tBu 2-L)CoI and (tBu2-L)CoI2.
