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Backbone thio-functionalized imidazol-2-ylidene-metal complexes: Synthesis, structure, electronic properties, and catalytic activity
Karthik, Vedhagiri,Bhat, Irshad Ahmad,Anantharaman, Ganapathi
, p. 7006 - 7013 (2014/01/06)
A new synthetic route to prepare imidazolium salts with heteroatom-containing functional groups at the backbone has been reported. Accordingly, the first example of a backbone bis-thiofunctionalized imidazolium salt (4) was prepared by sequential metal-halogen exchange reaction of 1-methyl-4,5-diiodoimidazole (1) followed by a quaternization reaction with methyl iodide. The metal-carbene complexes 6, 8, and 10 were synthesized conveniently through three different routes, namely, (a) an in situ generated carbene route, (b) a transmetalation method, and (c) direct reaction with a basic metal precursor, and structurally characterized. Subsequently the electronic properties of the newly prepared 1,3-dimethyl-4,5-bis(phenylthio)- imidazol-2-ylidene ((SPh)2IMe) was studied by measuring the carbonyl stretching frequency of the corresponding [Ir{(SPh)2IMe}(CO) 2(Cl)] complex. In addition, the air-stable palladium-NHC complex 10 was found to be catalytically active in Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reactions of aryl bromides.
