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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 144, Issue 33, Pages 15020-15025Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c06252
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [CRSK-2_190322, 206021_150710]
- Swiss Chemical Industry
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [206021_150710, CRSK-2_190322] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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This study demonstrates that Mo-95 chemical shift tensors in the context of alkyne metathesis provide detailed information on the electronic structure of catalysts and are directly linked to reactivity. The Mo-95 chemical shifts are driven by ligand electronegativity and electron delocalization, explaining the reactivity patterns of specific catalyst families. These results further motivate exploration of transition metal NMR signatures and their relationships to electronic structure and reactivity.
The most active alkyne metathesis catalysts rely on well-defined Mo alkylidynes, X3Mo equivalent to CR (X = OR), in particular the recently developed canopy catalyst family bearing silanolate ligand sets. Recent efforts to understand catalyst reactivity patterns have shown that NMR chemical shifts are powerful descriptors, though previous studies have mostly focused on ligand-based NMR descriptors. Here, we show in the context of alkyne metathesis that Mo-95 chemical shift tensors encode detailed information on the electronic structure of these catalysts. Analysis by first-principles calculations of Mo-95 chemical shift tensors extracted from solid-state Mo-95 NMR spectra shows a direct link of chemical shift values with the energies of the HOMO and LUMO, two molecular orbitals involved in the key [2 + 2]-cycloaddition step, thus linking Mo-95 chemical shifts to reactivity. In particular, the Mo-95 chemical shifts are driven by ligand electronegativity (sigma-donation) and electron delocalization through Mo-O pi interactions, thus explaining the reactivity patterns of the silanolate canopy catalysts. These results further motivate exploration of transition metal NMR signatures and their relationships to electronic structure and reactivity.
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