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Gold N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysts for the Hydrofluorination of Alkynes Using Hydrofluoric Acid: Reaction Scope, Mechanistic Studies and the Tracking of Elusive Intermediates
Bédard, Sandrine,Cavallo, Luigi,Falivene, Laura,Gauthier, Rapha?l,Nolan, Steven P.,Paquin, Jean-Fran?ois,Saab, Marina,Tzouras, Nikolaos V.,Van Hecke, Kristof,Zhang, Ziyun
, (2021/12/09)
An efficient and chemoselective methodology deploying gold-N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes as catalysts in the hydrofluorination of terminal alkynes using aqueous HF has been developed. Mechanistic studies shed light on an in situ generated catalyst, formed by the reaction of Br?nsted basic gold pre-catalysts with HF in water, which exhibits the highest reactivity and chemoselectivity. The catalytic system has a wide alkyl substituted-substrate scope, and stoichiometric as well as catalytic reactions with tailor-designed gold pre-catalysts enable the identification of various gold species involved along the catalytic cycle. Computational studies aid in understanding the chemoselectivity observed through examination of key mechanistic steps for phosphine- and NHC-coordinated gold species bearing the triflate counterion and the elusive key complex bearing a bifluoride counterion.
Oxidative Cleavage of Alkenes by O2with a Non-Heme Manganese Catalyst
Bennett, Elliot L.,Brookfield, Adam,Guan, Renpeng,Huang, Zhiliang,Mcinnes, Eric J. L.,Robertson, Craig M.,Shanmugam, Muralidharan,Xiao, Jianliang
supporting information, p. 10005 - 10013 (2021/07/19)
The oxidative cleavage of C═C double bonds with molecular oxygen to produce carbonyl compounds is an important transformation in chemical and pharmaceutical synthesis. In nature, enzymes containing the first-row transition metals, particularly heme and non-heme iron-dependent enzymes, readily activate O2 and oxidatively cleave C═C bonds with exquisite precision under ambient conditions. The reaction remains challenging for synthetic chemists, however. There are only a small number of known synthetic metal catalysts that allow for the oxidative cleavage of alkenes at an atmospheric pressure of O2, with very few known to catalyze the cleavage of nonactivated alkenes. In this work, we describe a light-driven, Mn-catalyzed protocol for the selective oxidation of alkenes to carbonyls under 1 atm of O2. For the first time, aromatic as well as various nonactivated aliphatic alkenes could be oxidized to afford ketones and aldehydes under clean, mild conditions with a first row, biorelevant metal catalyst. Moreover, the protocol shows a very good functional group tolerance. Mechanistic investigation suggests that Mn-oxo species, including an asymmetric, mixed-valent bis(μ-oxo)-Mn(III,IV) complex, are involved in the oxidation, and the solvent methanol participates in O2 activation that leads to the formation of the oxo species.
KI catalyzed C–H functionalization of acetone for the synthesis of 2-oxopropyl hetero-aromatic carboxylates
Zhou, Xiao-Yu,Chen, Xia,Liu, Hai-Long
supporting information, p. 1556 - 1563 (2021/03/15)
KI catalyzed C–H functionalization of acetone with hetero-aromatic carboxylic acids has been developed. With potassium iodide as catalyst and sodium chlorite as oxidant, cascade reaction including α-H electrophilic substitution of acetone and nucleophilic
