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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 139, Issue 45, Pages 16334-16342Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b09444
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Oe 249/8-1]
- Cluster of Excellence Unifying Concepts in Catalysis of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [EXC 314/2]
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The Ru-S bond in Ohki-Tatsumi complexes breaks oligomeric DIBAL-H structures into their more reactive monomer. That deaggregation is coupled to heterolytic Al-H bond activation at the Ru-S bond, formally splitting the Al-H linkage into hydride and an alumenium ion. The molecular structure of these Lewis pairs was established crystallographically, revealing an additional Ru-Al interaction next to the Ru-H and Al-S bonds. That bonding situation was further analyzed by quantum-chemical calculations and is best described as a three-center-two-electron (3c2e) donor-acceptor sigma(Ru-H) -> Al interaction. Despite the extra stabilization of the aluminum center by the interaction with both the sulfur atom and the Ru-H bond, the hydroalane adducts are found to be stronger Lewis acids and electrophiles than the free ruthenium catalyst and DIBAL-H in its different aggregation states. Hence, the DIBAL-H molecule and its Al-H bond are activated by the Ru-S bond, but these hydroalane adducts are not to be mistaken as sulfur-stabilized alumenium ions in a strict sense. The Ohki-Tatsumi complexes catalyze C(sp(3))-F bond cleavage with DIBAL-H, and the catalytic setup is applied to hydrodefluorinative Friedel-Crafts alkylations. A broad range of CF3-substituted arenes is efficiently converted into unsymmetrical diarylmethanes with various arenes as nucleophiles. Computed fluoride-ion affinities (FIAs) of the hydroalane adducts as well as DIBAL-H in its aggregation states support this experimental finding.
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