Nitrogen abstraction from nitriles by osmium(IV) complexes
Nitrogen abstraction from nitriles by osmium(IV) complexes
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DOI:
10.1021/ja005645d
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发表时间:
2001-05-09
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
Mayer, JM
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作者:
Bennett, BK;Lovell, S;Mayer, JM
The reactivity of ligands can be strongly affected by binding to Lewis-acidic or oxidizing metal centers. Organonitriles, for instance, are activated by electron deficient metals toward nucleophilic attack and hydrolysis. 1-3 Both industrial and enzymatic nitrile hydrolyses utilize metal centers as Lewis acid catalysts. 1-3 Described here is the hydrolytic disproportionation of nitriles by the Os (IV) complex TpOs (OTf) Cl2 (1), yielding an osmium (VI) nitrido complex. Intermediates along the suggested pathway have been independently prepared, indicating that hydrolysis occurs on the Os (IV) center, followed by disproportionation of an ammine complex to the nitrido product. Nitrido compounds are of interest due to their potential use as amination and aziridination reagents. 4 The only previous reports of forming nitrido ligands from nitriles have involved highly reducing metal complexes and metal-metal bonded compounds. 5 TpOs (OTf) Cl2 (1) is prepared by protonation of TpOs (NPPh3)-Cl2 6 with excess triflic acid in methylene chloride (Figure 1). 7 Its 1H NMR spectra8 are sharp but paramagnetically shifted (δ)+ 5 to-26 ppm), as is typical of d4-octahedral complexes of W, Re, and Os. 6, 9 The 19F NMR chemical shift at-69.54 ppm and the IR band at 1360 cm-1 indicate a coordinated triflate ligand, 10 as also shown by the Os-OTf distance of 2.053 (6) Å in the X-ray crystal structure (Figure 1). 8b A reversible reduction of 1 occurs at+ 0.28 V vs Cp2Fe+/0 in MeCN (∼+ 0.9 V vs NHE) and the reduced Os (III) form has been isolated as [Cp* 2Fe][TpOs-(OTf) Cl2](1R [for Reduced]). 8bThe triflate ligand in 1 is quite resistant to substitution. It is recovered in 93% yield after heating in dried, degassed MeCN at 70 C for 3 d. A small amount (< 4%) of a substituted product can be isolated, but it is the reduced osmium (III) complex TpOs-(NCMe) Cl2 (2R) rather than the expected osmium (IV) product [TpOs (NCMe) Cl2]+(2, see below). Similarly, 1 does not react with [nBu4N] Cl in dry MeCN. The lack of substitution is kinetic rather than thermodynamic in origin, since the substitution products 2 and TpOsCl3 11 are isolable species that do not revert to 1 on addition of OTf-. TpOsCl3 is rapidly formed from 1 on addition of HCl/Et2O in CD2Cl2, or on addition of [nBu4N] Cl in wet MeCN, 12 indicating that triflate substitution is proton-assisted. In contrast to the lack of reaction in dry MeCN, heating 1 for 3 h at 65 C in wet acetonitrile produces the osmium (VI) nitrido complex TpOs (N) Cl2 (3) 6 (25% yield), 2R (53%), and acetamide/acetic acid (≈ 30%). 13 The 1: 2 ratio of 3 to 2R is consistent with the balanced reaction in eq 1. Heating 1 with CH3C15N and H2O