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ORGANOMETALLICS
Volume 39, Issue 10, Pages 1917-1933Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00122
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [1800173]
- NSF [CBET-1805022]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1800173] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Oxidative addition and reductive elimination reactions are central steps in many catalytic processes, and controlling the energetics of reaction intermediates is key to enabling efficient catalysis. A series of oxidative addition and reductive elimination reactions using ((PNP)-P-R)RhX complexes (R = tert-butyl, isopropyl, mesityl, phenyl; X = Cl, I) was studied to deduce the effect of the size of the phosphine substituents. Using ((PNP)-P-R)RhCI as the starting material, oxidative addition of MeI was observed to produce ((PNP)-P-R)Rh(Me)(I)Cl, which was followed by reductive elimination of MeCl to form ((PNP)-P-R)RhI. The thermodynamics and kinetics vary with the identity of the substituent R on phosphorus of the PNP ligand. The presence of large steric bulk (e.g., R = tert-butyl, mesityl) on the phosphine favors Rh(I) in comparison to the presence of two smaller substituents (e.g., R = isopropyl, phenyl). An Eyring plot for the oxidative addition of MeI to ((PNP)-P-tBu)RhCl in THE-d(8) is consistent with a polar two-step reaction pathway, and the formation of [((PNP)-P-tBu)Rh(Me)I]I is also consistent with this mechanism. DFT calculations show that the steric bulk affects the reaction energies of addition reactions which generate six-coordinate complexes by tens of kcal mol(-1). The ligand steric bulk is calculated to have a reduced effect (a few kcal mol(-1)) on S-N2 addition barriers, which only require access to one side of the square plane.
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