Selective formation of a coordinatively unsaturated metal complex at a surface: a SiO(2)-immobilized, three-coordinate ruthenium catalyst for alkene epoxidation.
Selective formation of a coordinatively unsaturated metal complex at a surface: a SiO(2)-immobilized, three-coordinate ruthenium catalyst for alkene epoxidation.
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10.1002/anie.200700980
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2007-09
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Mizuki Tada;Rudy Coquet;J. Yoshida;Mutsuo Kinoshita;Y. Iwasawa
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作者:
Mizuki Tada;Rudy Coquet;J. Yoshida;Mutsuo Kinoshita;Y. Iwasawa
Immobilization of metal complexes on support surfaces is still the state of the art in the interdisciplinary field between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, irrespective of long-term challenges of designing immobilized metal complexes in a controllable manner, which is currently receiving much attention in practice for a variety of catalytic chemical syntheses.[1] The potential of immobilized metal-complex catalysts strongly depends on the nature of the support surface, which can result in significant rate enhancement and novel catalytic performance that analogous homogeneous complexes do not exhibit.[1, 2] In homogeneous reactions catalyzed by metal complexes, it is suggested that a coordinatively saturated metal complex (precursor) eliminates a ligand and is converted to an active complex with an unsaturated metal center, which, because of its low stability in solution, cannot be isolated and readily undergoes aggregation leading to loss of catalytic activity.[3] On the other hand, attachment of metal complexes on the surface of oxide supports provides isolated single-site metal complexes.[1, 4, 5] The aim of this technique is not only the simple surface immobilization of metal complexes, but also the selective creation of unique active structures and reactivity on surfaces that are difficult to achieve in solution.[2] Here we report the synthesis of a novel three-coordinate unsaturated Ru complex on an SiO2 surface by a new strategy and the catalytic performance of this system. A monomeric pcymene-coordinated ruthenium N-sulfonyl-1, 2-ethylenediamine complex [6] was tethered on SiO2, and we found that exothermic reaction with O2/isobutyraldehyde (IBA) promoted stoichiometric elimination of a p-cymene ligand to form an intermediate oxidant on a three-coordinate unsaturated ruthenium complex at the surface, which is active for alkene epoxidation.