An electron-deficient Iridium(III) dihydride complex capable of intramolecular C-H activation
An electron-deficient Iridium(III) dihydride complex capable of intramolecular C-H activation
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200463000
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发表时间:
2005-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Nolan, SP
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作者:
Scott, NM;Pons, V;Nolan, SP
The solid-state structure possesses a twofold rotation axis and clearly shows a double agostic interaction between the tbutyl groups and the iridium center with distances of 2.653 and 1.882 for each agostic interaction (IrÀC9 and IrÀH9A, respectively). The four-coordinate IrIII complex adopts a pseudooctahedral environment with two vacant sites in a cis arrangement with the carbenic carbon atoms trans to each other but cis to the two cis hydride ligands. Furthermore, the two cis vacant positions are sterically protected by two agostic interactions with the nearby tbutyl group. The structure of 3 provides a rare example of a “proposed” intermediate for an intramolecular CÀH activation process. The ItBu ligand apparently provides a unique stabilizing effect in coordinatively unsaturated iridium complexes.[10] The X-ray structure of 3 indicates the presence of a double agostic interaction, but the NMR spectrum at ambient temperature indicates a highly symmetrical structure. The 1H NMR spectra that were recorded over a range of temperatures (175–300K) to probe for agostic interactions in solution revealed interesting dynamic behavior (Figure 2).A dynamic process is frozen out at low temperature, which leads to two distinct environments for the tbutyl and imidazole moieties. We attribute the appearance of the lowtemperature spectra to a lower symmetry structure consistent with the solid-state structure. The switching of the tbutyl groups between their free environments and undergoing agostic interactions is responsible for the changes in the NMR spectra with temperature (Figure2). Lineshape analysis reveals that this process has ΔH= 7.68 kcal molÀ1, ΔS= À11 cal molÀ1 per degree, and ΔG