Catalysis by design: wide-bite-angle diphosphines by assembly of ditopic ligands for selective rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation.
Catalysis by design: wide-bite-angle diphosphines by assembly of ditopic ligands for selective rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation.
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10.1002/anie.200701255
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2007-09
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D. Rivillo;H. Gulyás;J. Benet‐Buchholz;Eduardo C. Escudero‐Adán;Z. Freixa;P. V. van Leeuwen
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D. Rivillo;H. Gulyás;J. Benet‐Buchholz;Eduardo C. Escudero‐Adán;Z. Freixa;P. V. van Leeuwen
Diphosphines are powerful ligands in homogeneous catalysis.[1] Until a decade ago, the ligands, with very few exceptions,[2] contained a covalently bonded backbone holding the two phosphorus donors together. More recently, bidentate diphosphines have been assembled by strong [2] or weak [3] hydrogen-bond interactions, assembly metal interactions,[4] and ionic interactions.[5] All of these approaches are wellknown in supramolecular chemistry and have recently been used in organometallic complexes.[6] Also, monophosphorus ligand systems without predetermined interactions turned out to be extremely effective in a number of cases,[7] as did mixed monophosphorus ligands.[8] A modular approach using monodentate ligands and their connectors [4, 8, 9] gives access to large libraries of new and potentially selective catalysts. Many catalytic reactions carried out using catalysts with bidentate phosphorus ligands are highly sensitive to the bite angle of the diphosphine. There are rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation,[10] nickel-and palladium-catalyzed hydrocyanation,[11] and palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions [12] in which either the rate or the selectivity was considerably improved by the use of, for instance, Xantphos (4, 5-bis (diphenylphosphino)-9, 9-dimethyl-xanthene), which has a natural bite angle of approximately 1108.[13] In some cases, hydrogen-bonded bidentate ligand systems may suffice to give results that equal or surpass those of covalently bonded bidentate diphosphines.[2, 3] Herein, we focus on modular ditopic ligands that contain an anionic site and a soft donor phosphorus atom. The former will be used to bind a hard metal for assembling the bidentate phosphine ligand, while the latter binds a soft metal involved in catalysis.[4] We use this approach to prepare wide-bite-angle diphosphine ligands. The two fragments of the ditopic ligand, together with the hard metal (which can form a tetrahedral, square-planar, octahedral, or (bi) pyramidal coordination sphere) might give rise to a large variety of ligands, thus requiring a minimum of synthetic effort. In view of the strong bonds involved, these molecules should be more amenable to design by molecular mechanics than those containing weaker hydrogen bonds or nondirectional ionic interactions. To this end, we synthesized the ditopic ligands 1–6 (Scheme 1). Ligands 1–3 are based on 3-diphenylphosphino-2-hydroxy-5-methylbenzaldehyde 13, reported without the 5-methyl group by Börner and co-workers,[4a, b] who used it (assembled with an asymmetric diamine and Ti (OiPr) 4 to give Salenophos) for asymmetric rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation.For the synthesis of 1–3, the appropriate amines were treated with 13. The ditopic ligands 4 and 6 are made by condensation of the corresponding aldehyde and 3-diphenylphosphinoaniline, and 5 is synthesized from 3-(diphenylphosphino) benzaldehyde. In general, the Schiff base condensation reactions were carried out in toluene heated at reflux in the presence of molecular sieves. The assembled bidentate phosphine ligands 7–12 were prepared by reaction of 1–6 with [Zn {N (SiMe3) 2} 2] or Ti (OiPr) 4(see the Supporting Information). Molecular modeling calculations showed that in particular the assemblies 10–12 might be interesting as wide-bite-angle ligands. On the one hand, this approach allows screening of large numbers of catalysts, but on the other hand, sophisticated guesses must be made; indeed, 7–9 are less promising, as we will see below, both for structural and for reactivity reasons. Note that 8 and 9 are isostructural with SPANphos (SPANphos= 4, 4, 4’, 4’6, 6’-hexamethylspiro-2, 2’-bichroman-8, 8 …