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Dehydrogenation of alcohols by bis(phosphinite) benzene based and bis(phosphine) ruthenocene based iridium pincer complexes
Polukeev, Alexey V.,Petrovskii, Pavel V.,Peregudov, Alexander S.,Ezernitskaya, Mariam G.,Koridze, Avthandil A.
, p. 1000 - 1015 (2013)
Dehydrogenation of alcohols by three iridium pincer complexes, IrH(Cl)[2,6-(tBu2PO)2C6H 3] (1), {IrH(acetone)[2,6-(tBu2PO) 2C6H3]}{BF4} (2), and IrH(Cl)[{2,5-(tBu2PCH2)2C 5H2}Ru(C5H5)] (3), is reported, in both the presence and the absence of a sacrificial hydrogen acceptor. Dehydrogenation of secondary alcohols proceeds in a catalytic mode with turnover numbers up to 3420 (85% conversion) for acceptorless dehydrogenation of 1-phenylethanol. Primary alcohols are readily decarbonylated even at room temperature to give catalytically inactive 16e Ir-CO adducts. The mechanism of this transformation was studied in detail, especially for EtOH; new intermediates were isolated and characterized.
