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Ammonia borane as a metal free reductant for ketones and aldehydes: A mechanistic study
Yang, Xianghua,Fox, Thomas,Berke, Heinz
experimental part, p. 7121 - 7127 (2011/10/05)
Without a catalyst ketones and aldehydes were reacted in THF with ammonia borane (AB) to proceed hydroboration forming alkyl borates. Mechanistic studies revealed that dissociation of ammonia from AB occurred before the hydroboration step. When methanol was used as the solvent, metal free methanolysis of AB would take place with the ketone/aldehyde being directly hydrogenated by the MeOH·BH3 complex.
Catalysis of transesterification reactions by lanthanides - Unprecedented acceleration of methanolysis of aryl and alkyl esters promoted by La(OTf)3 at neutral sspH and ambient temperatures
Neverov, Alexei A.,McDonald, Todd,Gibson, Graham,Brown
, p. 1704 - 1710 (2007/10/03)
La3+ catalysis of the methanolysis of the esters p-nitrophenyl, 2,4-dinitrophenyl, and phenyl acetate (1-3), phenyl benzoate (4), and ethyl, i-propyl, cyclohexyl, and tert-butyl acetate (5, 6a, 6b, 7) was studied at 25°C as a function of sspH and [La(OTf)3]. The active form of the catalyst is attributed to a dimethoxy-bridged dimer of stoichiometry (La3+)2(-OCH3)2, having maximum activity atsspH 8 to 9. For preparative reactions, the active catalyst can be made in situ simply by adding 0.01 equiv of La(OTf)3, and 0.01 equiv of NaOCH3 to a methanol solution containing the ester (1 M). Strong catalysis of methanolysis of both aryl and alkyl esters was observed, although tert-butyl acetate was inert. At sspH 8.5, where the catalyst is maximally active, the transesterification reactions are accelerated by 40 000-fold to 18 000 000-fold in the presence of as little as 5 mM catalyst relative to the background reaction depending on the ester structure. A mechanism for catalysis of transesterification is presented wherein the reactive species is generated by breaking a single La-OCH3 bond of the dimethoxy-bridged dimer to reveal a nucleophilic metal-bound methoxide - Lewis acid La3+ electrophilic pair.
