312912-13-3Relevant articles and documents
Competitive O-H and C-H oxidative addition of CH3OH to rhodium(II) porphyrins
Li, Shan,Cui, Weihong,Wayland, Bradford B.
, p. 4024 - 4025 (2007)
Rhodium(II) porphyrins react with CH3OH in benzene by alternate mechanisms that give H-CH2OH and H-OCH3 bond activation in different methanol concentration regimes which is a rare example of transition metal reactivity with methanol. The Royal Society of Chemistry.
Sterically demanding diporphyrin ligands and rhodium(II) porphyrin bimetalloradical complexes
Zhang,Wayland
, p. 5318 - 5325 (2008/10/08)
A series of sterically demanding diporphyrins H2(por)-X-(por)H2 ligands that contain spacers (X) with different degrees of flexibility were synthesized from the trimesitylporphyrin derivatives 5-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-10,15,20-trimesitylporphyrin (TMP-OH)H2 (1a) and 5-(2,6-dimethyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)-10,15,20-trimesityl-porphyrin, (DMTMP-OH)H2 (1b). The monomeric porphyrins 1a,b, which have steric demands similar to that of tetramesitylporphyrin, (TMP)H2, and carry a hydroxyl functional group at the para position of one of the mesophenyl substituents, were constructed from reaction of pyrrole with two aromatic aldehydes by a mixed aldehyde condensation approach. The diporphyrins with alkyl diether tethers were obtained stepwise from reactions of the hydroxy functionalized porphyrins 1a,b with dibromides Br(CH2)(n)Br. The diporphyrin which contains a more rigid m-xylylene spacer, was made directly from reaction of 1b with α,α'-dibromo-m-xylene. Rhodium was inserted into the porphyrins using Rh2(CO)2Cl2 and converted to dimethyl complexes Me-Rh(Por)-X-(Por)Rh-Me. The dirhodium(II) derivatives ·Rh(por)-X-(por)Rh· were generated by photolysis of the dimethyl complexes and observed to occur as stable bimetalloradicals because the ligand steric demands prohibit Rh(II)-Rh(II) bonding. EPR spectra of the dirhodium(II) derivatives, triphenyl phospine adducts, and dioxygen complexes are reported. The kinetic advantage of bimetalloradical complexes for substrate reactions that have two metal-centered radicals in the transition state is demonstrated by reactions of dihydrogen with dirhodium(II) bimetalloradical complexes.