A deeper look into thiophene coordination prior to oxidative addition of the C-S bond to platinum(0):: A computational study using DFT and MO methods
A deeper look into thiophene coordination prior to oxidative addition of the C-S bond to platinum(0):: A computational study using DFT and MO methods
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DOI:
10.1021/om700679j
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发表时间:
2008-01-14
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2.8
通讯作者:
Jones, William D.
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Atesin, Tuelay A.;Jones, William D.
The reaction of thiophene with a zerovalent platinum bisalkylphosphine fragment yields a highly stable thiaplatinacycle derived from cleavage of the C - S bond. Calculations on the [Pt(dmpe)] model system using Density Functional Theory are consistent with experimental results obtained with [Pt(dippe)] in that the reaction is exothermic overall and furthermore predict that the initial eta(2)-coordination of thiophene through the C = C double bond is energetically more favorable than coordination through the sulfur atom (Delta G = 9.3 kcal/mol). There are three well-defined transition states along the pathway to the oxidative addition product from both of these coordination modes. Two of these lead to a higher energy eta(2)-C,S-coordinated intermediate, while the third one leads to cleavage of the C - S bond from the eta(2)-C,S complex. As the reaction was carried out in a polar solvent (THF), the effect of solvation was taken into account by using the polarizable continuum model. The thermodynamic preference for the initial coordination of thiophene through the C = C bond is found to be greater in THF (Delta G = 11.4 kcal/mol). More importantly, the total free energy of the transition state from the C = C coordinated complex is now lower than that of the S-coordinated complex in solution. Therefore, the initial eta(2)-coordination of thiophene through the C = C double bond results in the kinetically preferred pathway. Molecular orbital analyses were carried out to rationalize the results.