4,5-Disubstituted N,N'-di-tert-alkyl imidazolium salts: new synthesis and structural features.
4,5-Disubstituted N,N'-di-tert-alkyl imidazolium salts: new synthesis and structural features.
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4,5-二取代的N,N-二叔烷基咪唑鎓盐:新合成和结构特征。
DOI:
10.1002/chem.201002805
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发表时间:
2011
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通讯作者:
I. Lyapkalo
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作者:
Anastasia A. Grishina;S. M. Polyakova;R. Kunetskiy;I. Císařová;I. Lyapkalo
The landmark discovery of stable N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) approximately two decades ago has sparked immense interest and led to numerous breakthroughs in organic and organometallic synthesis. NHCs are versatile and efficient Lewis base catalysts, instrumental in extending the scope and applicability of organocatalysis. Moreover, NHCs are recognised as potent ancillary ligands for transition-metal-based catalysis. The unsaturated imidazol-2-ylidenes, derived from N,N’disubstituted imidazolium salts or imidazole-2-thiones, constitute one of the largest group of stable NHCs. It is a general practice to attach bulky substituents, most commonly 2,6-disubstituted aryl or tertiary groups, to the nitrogen centres of imidazol-2-ylidenes to attain better kinetic stabilisation of the ligands and complexes. Tertiary substituents tend to engender greater spatial effects in the vicinity of the C2 nucleophilic centre than orthogonally orientated aryl substituents (Figure 1). Recent studies on the interaction of N,N’-disubstituted imidazol-2-ylidenes with [Ni(CO)4] [5] as well as on activation of H2 by bulky imidazol-2-ylidene Lewis base–Lewis acid pairs clearly attest to the superior steric effect of tertiary substituents (type II, R’=H) than 2,6-dialkylphenyl (type I). Decoration with tert-alkyl substituents proved essential for the efficiency of phosphane ligands, for example, PACHTUNGTRENNUNG(CMe3)2Me,[7] biaryl-2-yl-di-tert-butylphosphanes or PACHTUNGTRENNUNG(CMe3)3[9] in challenging Pd-catalysed coupling reactions. Tertiary N,N’-disubstituted imidazol-2-ylidenes are regarded to be more electron donating and more bulky than even the most basic and sterically demanding phosphanes, such as PACHTUNGTRENNUNG(CMe3)3.[10] A multitude of transition-metal complexes with the imidazol-2-ylidene ligands have been prepared and characterised and palladium complexes have been found to be highly efficient in catalytic activation of aryl chlorides. However, whereas an impressive variety of phosphane ligands with two or three tertiary substituents are at the disposal of synthetic chemists, the array of N,N’-di-tert-alkyl imidazol-2-ylidenes appears to be exceedingly narrow. Essentially, only two ligands of this subfamily, N,N’-di-tertbutyland N,N’-diadamantan-1-yl-imidazol-2-ylidenes, have been extensively employed in organic and organometallic syntheses so far, both being unsubstituted at positions 4 and 5 (II, R’= H, see Figure 1). This is a considerable shortcoming because no tuning of stereoelectronic properties of the ligands is permitted, and the unsubstituted positions are vulnerable to side reactions. 14] Thus, a modular and efficient method for synthesis of 4or 4,5-(di)substituted N,N’-di-tert-alkyl imidazol-2-ylidene ligands is certainly in demand. Not only would the substitutions at positions 4 and 5 protect the ligands and the catalytic complexes from undesirable side reactions, but the variation of their electronic properties could directly and predict[a] A. A. Grishina, Dr. S. M. Polyakova, R. A. Kunetskiy, Dr. I. M. Lyapkalo Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v. v. i. , Flemingovo nam. 2 16610 Prague 6 (Czech Republic) Fax: (+420) 220183578 E-mail : polyakova@uochb.cas.cz [b] Dr. I. C sařov Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Charles University Hlavova 2030, 12840 Prague 2 (Czech Republic) [†] Deceased, September 10, 2010. Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem201002805. Figure 1. Schematic comparison of steric effects of N,N’-di-aryl and -tertiary substituents of imidazol-2-ylidenes.
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16.6
作者:
Burgos, Carlos H.;Barder, Timothy E.;Buchwald, Stephen L.
通讯作者:
Buchwald, Stephen L.
影响因子:
15
作者:
Kirchhoff, JH;Netherton, MR;Fu, GC
通讯作者:
Fu, GC