A Calix[4]arene Monoalkyl Ether as a Model of a Tris(phenolate) Ligand with a Hemilabile Anisole Moiety: Syntheses, Molecular Structures and Bonding of Calix[4]arene Ether Supported Titanium Complexes and Their Catalytic Activity in Epoxidation Reactions
A Calix[4]arene Monoalkyl Ether as a Model of a Tris(phenolate) Ligand with a Hemilabile Anisole Moiety: Syntheses, Molecular Structures and Bonding of Calix[4]arene Ether Supported Titanium Complexes and Their Catalytic Activity in Epoxidation Reactions
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杯[4]芳烃单烷基醚作为具有半不稳定苯甲醚部分的三(酚盐)配体模型:杯[4]芳烃醚负载的钛配合物的合成、分子结构和键合及其在环氧化反应中的催化活性
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2004
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U. Radius
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Andreas Friedrich;U. Radius
New mononuclear titanium complexes [TiCl(Rcalix)] [R = Me (1), Bz (2), SiMe3 (3)] supported by p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene mono(organyl)ethers (Rcalix) were prepared in good yield from H2R2calix and [TiCl4(THF)2]. The crystallographically characterized complex [TiCl(Mecalix)] (1) reacts readily with NaCp and LiNR2 to afford the complexes [TiCp(Mecalix)] (4) and [Ti(NR2)(Mecalix)] [R = Me (5), Et (6), iPr (7), Ph (8)], respectively. Reactions of [Ti(NR2)(Mecalix)] (5) with alcohols, phenols and thiols proceed cleanly with amide exchange, as exemplified by the synthesis of [Ti(OR)(Mecalix)] [R = Me (10), iPr (11), tBu (12), 4-tBuC6H4 (13), 2,6-iPr2C6H3 (14)], and [Ti(StBu)(Mecalix)] (15). Depending on the steric demand of the ligand coordinated to the [Ti(Mecalix)] complex fragment these compounds are monomeric or dimeric in the solid state, as demonstrated by the molecular structures of monomeric [Ti(OC6H3-2,6-iPr2)(Mecalix)] (14) and [Ti(StBu)(Mecalix)] (15), or dimeric [{Ti(OMe)(Mecalix)}2] (10). In all complexes the calix[4]arene ligand adopts an elliptically distorted cone conformation in which the distance of the titanium atom from the anisole oxygen atom varies between 2.342 A and 2.438 A for the structurally characterized complexes, with the exception of the Cp complex 4. MP2 calculations on model complexes demonstrate that the titanium−anisole oxygen bond is weak, with a particularly shallow potential energy surface in the region between 2.30 A and 2.80 A. The Mecalix ligand system therefore might be described as a tris(phenolate) ligand with a hemilabile anisole group in the titanium compounds reported. Despite the labile anisole ether titanium bond, isomerization of the calix[4]arene ligand to a paco coordination mode, as described earlier for the Me2calix complexes [Ti(OC6H4-4-R)2(Me2calix)], has not been observed in these complexes. Preliminary results on the catalytic epoxidation of cyclooctene with TBHP using calix[4]arene-stabilized titanium(IV) complexes are also briefly presented. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2004)