Catalytic C-F bond activation of hexafluoropropene by rhodium:: Formation of (3,3,3-trifluoropropyl)silanes
Catalytic C-F bond activation of hexafluoropropene by rhodium:: Formation of (3,3,3-trifluoropropyl)silanes
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200700711
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Altenhoener, Kai
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作者:
Braun, Thomas;Wehmeier, Falk;Altenhoener, Kai
The activation of carbon–fluorine bonds by transition-metal centers is an established process in organometallic chemistry.[1] Current interests include the development of new routes to higher-value fluorinated compounds from easily accessible precursors. The strategy involves the selective cleavage of a CÀF bond in a highly fluorinated substrate to obtain fluorinated building blocks that then can be functionalized further in the coordination sphere of the metal.[1, 2] There have been striking advances in the synthesis of fluorinated molecules using CÀF activation reactions, but catalytic reactions are still rare. The transformations include a very limited number of cross-coupling reactions.[3, 4] In another exceptional example, carbon–silicon bonds are formed by catalytic conversions of functionalized fluorobenzenes, such as fluoroacetophenones or (fluorophenyl) oxazolines, with hexamethyldisilane using [Rh (cod) 2] BF4 as catalyst (cod= cyclooctadiene).[5] Most of the other examples that have been reported involve simple hydrodefluorination steps.[1, 2] Very little has been reported on stoichiometric or even catalytic transformations that involve the cleavage of a CÀF bond in a fluorinated olefin.[1, 4, 6–8] Again, almost all of the reactions involve hydrodefluorinations. The only exception involves a palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of 1, 1-difluoro-2-naphtylpropene with [(tolyl) ZnCl] to give monoand ditolyl derivatives.[4] Holland and co-workers showed that hexafluoropropene can be converted catalytically into a mixture of pentafluoropropenes with a turnover number (TON) of 9.8.[7] Here, a diketiminate iron (II) fluoro complex served as the catalyst. In a very recent example, Peterson and McNeill reported on the rhodium-catalyzed hydrodehalogenation of vinylfluoride or chlorofluoroethylenes in the presence of HSiEt3 to give ethane with comparable TONs.[8]We have already shown that hexafluoropropene can be converted into 1, 1, 1-trifluoropropene by using dihydrogen as hydrogen source, but the transformation was not catalytic.[9, 10] The hydrodefluorination reaction is based on the activation of hexafluoropropene by [RhH (PEt3) 3](1a) to yield the rhodium derivative [Rh {(Z)-CF= CF (CF3)}(PEt3) 3](2). The latter complex reacts with dihydrogen to give 1, 1, 1-trifluoropropene and the fluoro complex [RhF (PEt3) 3](3). Herein we present our results on the reactivity of 2 with tertiary silanes. The studies led to the development of a catalytic process for the conversion of hexafluoropropene into (3, 3, 3-trifluoropropyl) silanes by CÀF bond activation. The reactions proceed at room temperature with good TONs and are very selective. They are unique in that 1) they involve a rare catalytic CÀF bond activation of a fluorinated alkene, and 2) the catalytic cycle, along with the hydrodefluorination steps, involves the formation of a CÀSi bond. Treatment of a solution of 2 with an excess Ph3SiH led to the selective formation of the (3, 3, 3-trifluoropropyl) silane 4a and the dihydridosilyl complex cis-fac-[Rh (H) 2 (SiPh3)-(PEt3) 3](5)[10](Scheme 1). An experiment with substoichiometric amounts of Ph3SiH also gave selectively the silane 4a and complex 5, but the starting compound 2 was still present.