Structure-Reactivity Studies of Intermediates for Mechanistic Information by Subensemble Fluorescence Microscopy
Structure-Reactivity Studies of Intermediates for Mechanistic Information by Subensemble Fluorescence Microscopy
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DOI:
10.1021/acscatal.7b00627
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发表时间:
2017-06-01
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12.9
通讯作者:
Blum, Suzanne A.
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作者:
Kitagawa, Kazuhiro;Blum, Suzanne A.
Structure− reactivity studies of organometallic complexes have a rich history in aiding mechanism-based reaction design in organometallic and synthetic organic chemistry. Originally developed by physical-organic chemists and later adopted for the emerging field of organometallic chemistry, 1 structure− reactivity studies at the molecular level provide the ability to correlate changes in the structure of metal complexes and substrates (eg, through ligand design, electronic parameters, substrate structure, solvent coordination, etc.) to changes in reactivity of individual steps or in the reaction overall. This ability is then employed to create predictive models for development of new reactions; extension of the chemistry to new substrates; and improvement of catalytic activity, selectivity, or other desirable reaction properties. Often such structure− reactivity studies, however, are hampered by a low quantity of reactive intermediates, especially when organometallic intermediates are involved. These intermediates might not build up to the quantity needed for detection by traditional ensemble analytical techniques. 1 Such ensemble techniques are best-suited to identifying the major components in mixtures; yet, often these reactive components are not the major components. 1 This discrepancy leads to long-standing analytical challenges in the field. Thus, structure− reactivity studies are sometimes unable to be performed through direct detection of specific intermediates and instead must be teased out indirectly through measurement of the effects on the overall reaction. In these cases the changes in reactivity of specific intermediates rather than changes in the reaction overall are difficult to assign. This difficulty hinders predictive reaction model development and thus reaction design and improvement.Driven by the need to identify and study limited quantities of organometallic species under conditions relevant to catalysts, synthetic organic, and preparative organometallic chemistry, our laboratory and the Goldsmith laboratory have recently reported two subensemble fluorescence microscopy approaches to this problem (Figure 1). 2− 4 Subensemble fluorescence