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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 39, Issue 43, Pages 10528-10535Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0dt00578a
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- Ministere of High Education and Research
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DFT(B3PW91) calculations of the mechanism of the intramolecular C(sp(3))-H arylation of 2-bromo-tert-butylbenzene to form benzocyclobutene catalysed by Pd(PR3) (R = Me, Bu-t) and a base (acetate, bicarbonate, carbonate) show that the preferred mechanism is highly dependent on the nature of the phosphine and the base used in the calculations. With the experimental reagents ((PBu3)-Bu-t and carbonate) the rate-determining step is C-H activation with the base coordinated trans to the C-H bond. An agostic interaction of a geminal C-H bond with respect to the bond to be cleaved induces a lowering of the activation barrier.
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