Exocyclic Bond Cleavage in Oxaphosphirane Complexes?
Exocyclic Bond Cleavage in Oxaphosphirane Complexes?
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DOI:
10.1002/chem.201201057
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发表时间:
2012-10-01
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Streubel, Rainer
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作者:
Espinosa, Arturo;Streubel, Rainer
A first computational insight into the intrinsic strength of exocyclic bonds to phosphorus in oxaphosphirane ?P-pentacarbonylmetal(0) complexes 1?af (M=Cr, Mo) is provided using a set of P?R derivatives (R=Me, tBu, CPh3). Whereas homolytic cleavage of the exocyclic P?R bond was found to be always unfavored (for neutral complexes), heterolytic cleavage leading to a carbocation R+ moiety and the oxaphosphiranide complex 2- constitutes the lowest-energy process, especially if R is bulky and can stabilize the positive charge, that is, triphenylmethyl (trityl), efficiently. The energies required for P?M bond cleavage are about 30 kcal?mol-1, and decrease with the increasing bulk of the R substituent (from Me to trityl) and ongoing from Cr to Mo. The reactivities of complexes 1?af towards oxidative and reductive single electron transfer (SET) reactions were analyzed using the facile variation of bond-strength-related descriptors (VBSD) methodology, thus enabling the design of synthetically useful strategies addressing decomplexation and P-functionalization. Reductive SET reactions with sodium naphthalenides enable selective P?M bond cleavage (i.e., decomplexation) for the case of P-Me and P-tBu substitution, whereas reductive P?R bond cleavage is favored in the case of the P-trityl complexes 1?c,f, and results in the formation of the (anionic) oxaphosphiranide complex 2-, which may be regarded as a potential key intermediate for further P-functionalization.