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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 43, Issue 36, Pages 13545-13556Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4dt01758g
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- EPSRC [EP/E059376/1]
- JNH holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- CCDC
- EPSRC
- School of Chemistry
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/E059376/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/E059376/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The manifold of reaction pathways for the oxidative addition of phenyl bromide and phenyl chloride substrates to phosphine-modified palladium(0) complexes has been investigated with dispersion-corrected density functional theory (B3LYP-D2) for a range of synthetically relevant ligands, permitting the evaluation of ligand, substrate and method effects on calculated predictions. Bulky and electron-rich ligands (PBu3)-Bu-t and SPhos can access low-coordinate complexes more easily, facilitating formation of the catalytically active species throughout the cycle. While the bisphosphine oxidative addition step is reasonably facile for the smaller PCy3 and PPh3 ligands, the dissociation of these ligands to generate reactive palladium complexes becomes more important and the catalyst is more likely to become trapped in unreactive intermediates. This study demonstrates the feasibility of exploring the catalytic manifold for synthetically relevant ligands with computational chemistry, but also highlights the remaining challenges.
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