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ORGANOMETALLICS
Volume 32, Issue 22, Pages 6804-6811Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/om400645s
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- NSERC (Canada)
- CFI (Canada)
- CCVC (Quebec)
- C3V (Universite Laval)
- NSERC
- FQRNT
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The ambiphilic species Al(C6H4(o-PPh2))(3) (2) was synthesized and fully characterized, notably using X-ray diffraction. Species 2 exhibits pseudo-bipyramidal-trigonal geometry caused by the two Al-P interactions. 2 reacts with CO2 to generate a CO2 adduct commonly observed in the activation of CO2 using frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs). This ambiphilic species serves as a precatalyst for the reduction of CO2 in the presence of catecholborane (HBcat) to generate CH(3)OBcat, which can be readily hydrolyzed in methanol. The reaction mixture confirms that, in the presence of HBcat, 2 generates the known CO2 reduction catalyst 1-Bcat-2-PPh2-C6H4 (1) and intractable catecholate aluminum species. It was, however, possible to isolate a single crystal of Al(kappa O-2,O-(MeO)(2)Bcat)(3) (5) supporting this hypothesis. Also, a borane-protected analogue of 2, Al(C6H4(o-PPh2 center dot BH3))(3) (4), does not react with catecholborane, suggesting the influence of the pendant phosphines in the transformation of 2 into 1.
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