Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 57, Issue 22, Pages 6507-6511Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201802357
Keywords
carbon dioxide fixation; intermediate isolation; iron; isocyanate; low-coordinate complexes
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- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellowship) [680-50-1517]
- National Institutes of Health [GM-065313]
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Discovery of the mechanisms for selective transformations of CO2 into organic compounds is a challenge. Herein, we describe the reaction of low-coordinate Fe silyl-amide complexes with CO2 to give trimethylsilyl isocyanate and the corresponding Fe siloxide complex. Kinetic studies show that this is a two-stage reaction, and the presence of a single equivalent of THF influences the rates of both steps. Isolation of a thermally unstable intermediate provides mechanistic insight that explains both the effect of THF in this reaction, and the way in which the reaction achieves high selectivity formation.
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