Metal-free catalytic hydrogenation
Metal-free catalytic hydrogenation
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200702908
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Stephan, Douglas W.
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作者:
Chase, Preston A.;Welch, Gregory C.;Stephan, Douglas W.
Hydrogenation is the addition of hydrogen to unsaturated organic compounds. Such reactions are used for the production of a myriad of chemical products worldwide, from largescale operations including the upgrading of crude oil and the production of bulk commodity materials to the synthesis of a variety of fine chemicals used in the food, agricultural, and pharmaceutical industries.[1] The process of hydrogen addition to unsaturated precursors is mediated by either homogeneous or heterogeneous transition-metal-based catalysts.[1] Blaser et al.[2] place the importance of this chemistry in context, stating that “hydrogen is the cleanest reducing agent and hydrogenation is arguably the most important catalytic method in synthetic organic chemistry both on the laboratory and the production scale”. Historically, hydrogenation began with Sabatier s 1897 discovery that traces of nickel could mediate the catalytic hydrogenation of olefins and culminated in a share of the 1912 Nobel Prize with Grignard. In the 1960s, the advent of organometallic chemistry gave rise to homogeneous transition-metal-based hydrogenation catalysts for a variety of substrates. The operation of these catalysts hinges on the key step of oxidative addition of hydrogen.[3] More recently, transition-metal systems that effect heterolytic cleavage of hydrogen at a metal center have been uncovered. In these cases, a metal hydride is formed with concurrent protonation of an amido ligand.[4, 5]Non-transition-metal catalysts for hydrogenation reactions are all but unknown. KOtBu has been shown to act as a catalyst effecting the addition of H2 to benzophenone under forcing conditions of 2008C and greater than 100 bar H2.[6] Organocatalysts have been developed for hydrogenations of enones and imines; however, such systems do not employ H2 directly but rather a surrogate such as a Hantzsch ester as the stoichiometric source of hydrogen.[7–11] The development of nonmetal hydrogenation catalysts hinges on the discovery of systems that react cleanly with H2, but few are known. Power and co-workers reported the hydrogenation of Ge2–alkyne analogues to give a mixture of Ge2 and primary germane products.[12] Recently we have introduced the concept of “frustrated Lewis pairs”, bulky Lewis acids and bases which are sterically precluded from forming simple Lewis