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Regioselectivity of Pd-catalyzed o-carborane arylation: a theoretical view

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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
Volume 9, Issue 6, Pages 1686-1695

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2qo00046f

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21903071]
  2. Program for Science Technology Innovation Talents in Universities of Henan Province [20HASTIT004]

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The mechanism and regioselectivity of Pd-catalyzed B(4)-H arylation and B(4,5)-H diarylation for o-carborane with bidentate directing groups were investigated. It was found that the rate- and regioselectivity-determining step for the whole catalytic cycle is the reductive elimination. The introduction of a substituent group on C(2) leads to significant distortion of o-carborane, making B(3)-arylation unfavorable, while counterion exchange with carboxylate before reductive elimination can increase the positive charge of palladium and lower the activation free energy.
The mechanism and the regioselectivity of Pd-catalyzed B(4)-H arylation and B(4,5)-H diarylation for o-carborane with bidentate directing groups were investigated. The complete catalytic cycle involves Pd-mediated concerted metalation-deprotonation, oxidative addition, counterion exchange, and reductive elimination, where counterion exchange is critical. The reductive elimination is the rate- and regioselectivity-determining step for the whole catalytic cycle. B(3)-Arylation is unfavorable because the steric repulsion between the substituent group on C(2) and the metal moiety would lead to significant distortion of o-carborane and would result in a higher activation energy for reductive elimination. The distortion of o-carborane can be clearly observed from the change of its aromaticity in the corresponding transition states by the calculation of nucleus-independent chemical shifts. Moreover, counterion exchange with carboxylate before reductive elimination significantly increases the positive charge of palladium, which leads to a lower activation free energy for the sequential step.

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