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CO Displacement in an Oxidative Addition of Primary Silanes to Rhodium(I)
Biswas, Abhranil,Ellern, Arkady,Sadow, Aaron D.
, (2019)
The rhodium dicarbonyl {PhB(Ox Me2)2ImMes}Rh(CO)2 (1) and primary silanes react by oxidative addition of a nonpolar Si-H bond and, uniquely, a thermal dissociation of CO. These reactions are reversible, and kinetic measurements model the approach to equilibrium. Thus, 1 and RSiH3 react by oxidative addition at room temperature in the dark, even in CO-Saturated solutions. The oxidative addition reaction is first-Order in both 1 and RSiH3, with rate constants for oxidative addition of PhSiH3 and PhSiD3 revealing kH/kD a 1. The reverse reaction, reductive elimination of Si-H from {PhB(Ox Me2)2ImMes}RhH(SiH2R)CO (2), is also first-Order in [2] and depends on [CO]. The equilibrium concentrations, determined over a 30 °C temperature range, provide ?"H° = a'5.5 ± 0.2 kcal/mol and ?"S° = a'16 ± 1 cal·mol-1K-1 (for 1 a?., 2). The rate laws and activation parameters for oxidative addition (?"Ha§§ = 11 ± 1 kcal·mol-1 and ?"Sa§§ = a'26 ± 3 cal·mol-1·K-1) and reductive elimination (?"Ha§§ = 17 ± 1 kcal·mol-1 and ?"Sa§§ = a'10 ± 3 cal·mol-1K-1), particularly the negative activation entropy for both forward and reverse reactions, suggest the transition state of the rate-Determining step contains {PhB(Ox Me2)2ImMes}Rh(CO)2 and RSiH3. Comparison of a series of primary silanes reveals that oxidative addition of arylsilanes is ca. 5× faster than alkylsilanes, whereas reductive elimination of Rh-Si/Rh-H from alkylsilyl and arylsilyl rhodium(III) occurs with similar rate constants. Thus, the equilibrium constant Ke for oxidative addition of arylsilanes is >1, whereas reductive elimination is favored for alkylsilanes.
