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An attractive route to transamidation catalysis: Facile synthesis of new o-aryloxide-N-heterocyclic carbene ruthenium(II) complexes containing trans triphenylphosphine donors
Nirmala, Muthukumaran,Prakash, Govindan,Viswanathamurthi, Periasamy,Malecki, Jan Grzegorz
, p. 15 - 26 (2015)
Well-defined robust ruthenium(II) complexes 3a-d bearing o-aryloxide-N-heterocyclic carbene ligands with different wingtip substituents (3a (R = Me), 3b (R = Ph), 3c (R = iPr) and 3d (R = Mes)) in the imidazole ring were synthesized in good yields by the reaction of imidazolium proligands with metal precursor [RuHCl(CO)(PPh3)3] by transmetallation from the corresponding silver carbene complexes. All the Ru(II)-NHC complexes have been characterized by elemental analyses, spectroscopic methods as well as ESI mass spectrometry. The molecular structure of the complex 3a was identified by means of single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, which revealed that the complexes possess a distorted octahedral geometry. In order to explore the catalytic potential of the synthesized complexes, all the four [Ru-NHC] complexes [3a-d] were tested as catalysts for transamidation of carboxamides with amines. Notably, the complex 3a was found to be very efficient and versatile catalyst toward transamidation of a wide range of amides with amines.
