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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 77, Issue 17, Pages 7487-7496Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo301319j
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- National Science Foundation of China [21133002, 21101011]
- Shenzhen Peacock Program
- Croucher Foundation of Hong Kong
- Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
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Density functional theory studies have been carried out to investigate the mechanism of the Pd(II(bpy)-and Rh(I)(bpy)-catalyzed conjugate additions and their competitive Heck reactions involving alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. The critical steps of the mechanism are insertion and termination. The insertion step favors 1,2-addition of the vinyl-coordinated species to generate a stable C-bound enolate intermediate, which then may isomerize to either an oxa-pi-allyl species or an O-bound enolate. The termination step involves a competition between beta-hydride elimination, leading to a Heck reaction product, and protonolysis reaction that gives a conjugate addition product. These two pathways are competitive in the Pd(II)-catalyzed reaction, while a preference for protonolysis has been found in the Rh(I)-catalyzed reaction. The calculations are in good agreement with the experimental observations. The potential energy surface and the rate-determining step of the beta-hydride elimination are similar for bcth Pd(II)- and Rh(I)-catalyzed processes. The rate-determining steps of the Pd(II)- and Rh(I)-catalyzed protonolysis are different. Introduction of an N- or P-ligand significantly stabilizes the protonolysis transition state via the O-bound enolate or oxa-pi-allyl complex intermediate, resulting in a reduced free energy of activation. However, the barrier of the beta-hydride elimination is less sensitive to ligands. For the Rh(I)-catalyzed reaction, protonolysis is calculated to be more favorable than the beta-hydride elimination for all investigated N and P ligands due to the significant ligand stabilization to the protonolysis transition state. For the Pd(II)-catalyzed reaction, the complex with monodentate pyridine ligands prefers the Heck-type product through beta-hydride elimination, while the complex with bidentate N and P ligands favors the protonolysis. The theoretical finding suggests the possibility to control the selectivity between the conjugate addition and the Heck reaction by using proper ligands.
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