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ORGANOMETALLICS
Volume 38, Issue 19, Pages 3602-3609Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00438
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- National Science Foundation [NSF CHE-1255424, CHE-1925751]
- National Science Foundation (MRI) [CHE-1429711]
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Tetradentate pyridinophane ligands have been shown to stabilize uncommon high-valent palladium and nickel organometallic complexes. Described herein are the synthesis and detailed characterization of a series of Ni-II- and Ni-III-dimethyl complexes supported by modified tetradentate pyridinophane ligands in which one or both of the N-methyl substituents were replaced with electron-withdrawing p-toluenesulfonyl groups, thus reducing the amine N atom donicity and favoring the formation of Ni complexes with lower coordination numbers. The corresponding Ni-II-dimethyl complexes exhibit accessible oxidation potentials, and their oxidation generates Ni m species that were characterized by EPR and X-ray crystallography. Moreover, the Ni-III-dimethyl complexes exhibit selective ethane formation upon oxidatively induced reductive elimination using various oxidants-including O-2 and H2O2, without the generation of any C-heteroatom products. Overall, these results suggest that the ((R)N4)(NiMe2)-Me-II complexes with more weakly donating axial ligands are more reactive toward ethane formation, likely due to destabilization of the corresponding high-valent Ni intermediates and formation of 5- and 4-coordinate conformations for these Ni species.
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