29726-01-0Relevant articles and documents
Structural and spectroscopic characterization of iron(II), cobalt(II), and nickel(II) ortho-dihalophenolate complexes: Insights into metal-halogen secondary bonding
Machonkin, Timothy E.,Boshart, Monica D.,Schofield, Jeremy A.,Rodriguez, Meghan M.,Grubel, Katarzyna,Rokhsana, Dalia,Brennesse, William W.,Holland, Patrick L.
, p. 9837 - 9848 (2014)
Metal complexes incorporating the tris(3,5-diphenylpyrazolyl)borate ligand (TpPh2) and ortho-dihalophenolates were synthesized and characterized in order to explore metal-halogen secondary bonding in biorelevant model complexes. The complexes TpPh2ML were synthesized and structurally characterized, where M was Fe(II), Co(II), or Ni(II) and L was either 2,6-dichloro- or 2,6-dibromophenolate. All six complexes exhibited metal-halogen secondary bonds in the solid state, with distances ranging from 2.56 ? for the TpPh2Ni(2,6- dichlorophenolate) complex to 2.88 ? for the TpPh2Fe(2,6-dibromophenolate) complex. Variable temperature NMR spectra of the TpPh2Co(2,6-dichlorophenolate) and TpPh2Ni(2,6-dichlorophenolate) complexes showed that rotation of the phenolate, which requires loss of the secondary bond, has an activation barrier of ~30 and ~37 kJ/mol, respectively. Density functional theory calculations support the presence of a barrier for disruption of the metal- halogen interaction during rotation of the phenolate. On the other hand, calculations using the spectroscopically calibrated angular overlap method suggest essentially no contribution of the halogen to the ligand-field splitting. Overall, these results provide the first quantitative measure of the strength of a metal-halogen secondary bond and demonstrate that it is a weak noncovalent interaction comparable in strength to a hydrogen bond. These results provide insight into the origin of the specificity of the enzyme 2,6-dichlorohydroquinone 1,2-dioxygenase (PcpA), which is specific for ortho-dihalohydroquinone substrates and phenol inhibitors.
A NOVEL, SIMPLE METHOD FOR THE PREPARATION OF HINDERED DIPHENYL ETHERS
Sammes, Peter G.,Thetford, Dean,Voyle, Martyn
, p. 3229 - 3232 (2007/10/02)
The displacement of the nitro group from substituted nitrobenzenes is used for the synthesis of diphenyl ethers. 1,4-Dinitrobenzene has been converted into a variety of hindered diphenyl ethers using 2,6-disubstituted phenoxides and studies show that the mechanism of formation of the ether (5a) is radical in nature.