BETA-HYDRIDE ELIMINATION FROM METHOXO VS ETHYL LIGANDS - THERMOLYSIS OF (DPPE)PT(OCH3)2, (DPPE)PT(CH2CH3)(OCH3) AND (DPPE)PT(CH2CH3)2
BETA-HYDRIDE ELIMINATION FROM METHOXO VS ETHYL LIGANDS - THERMOLYSIS OF (DPPE)PT(OCH3)2, (DPPE)PT(CH2CH3)(OCH3) AND (DPPE)PT(CH2CH3)2
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00276a018
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发表时间:
1986-08-06
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
BERCAW, JE
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作者:
BRYNDZA, HE;CALABRESE, JC;BERCAW, JE
Background It has been historically more difficult to preparealkoxide and amide complexes of the group VIII (groups 8-10) metals than to prepare comparable alkyl species containing/3-hydrogensub-stituents. In addition, thé chemistry of late-metal alkoxides has only recently been explored1 while reactions of metal alkyl com-plexes have been studiedfor many years. 2 The commonly held perception that suchspecies have weak metal-oxygen bonds has been attributed to the suspected poor interaction of hard base ligands with relatively soft group VIII (groups 8-10) metal centers. The difficulty in isolating alkoxide complexes and the ease with which they decompose (presumably by/3-hydride elimination) to metal hydrides3 adds credence to these hypotheses; it has been assumed that weak MO bonds lower the intrinsic barrier to/3-hydride elimination reactions by raising the ground-state free energies of alkoxides relative to alkyls. Consistent with this interpretation, synthesis of platinum alkoxides containing/3-hy-drogen atoms has been accomplished most successfully in species containing electron-withdrawing substituents4 and comparable hydroxide and phenoxide complexes are generally much more stable than alkoxide analogues. 5 Whitesides, Yamamoto, and others have provided elegant la-beling studies which show/3-hydrogen elimination from platinum (II) alkyls most easily takes place by dissociation of phosphine ligands from P2PtR2 complexesfollowed by^-elimination and reductive coupling of alkyl and hydride ligands. 6 At high phosphine ligand concentrations or with chelatingbis-phosphine ligands, a higher energy/3-elimination from the 16-electron starting materials becomes competitive with the dissociative route. 6 We now report that analogous platinum alkoxides show the same behavior and provide interesting comparisons between the two classes of compounds.