N-Heterocyclic carbenes: deducing σ- and π-contributions in Rh-catalyzed hydroboration and Pd-catalyzed coupling reactions

Autor: Joyce A.V. Er, Dimitri M. Khramov, Peter D. Vu, Vincent M. Lynch, Christopher W. Bielawski, Evelyn L. Rosen
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Tetrahedron. 64:6853-6862
ISSN: 0040-4020
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2008.04.030
Popis: The effect of tuning the electronic properties of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands was evaluated in multiple, mechanistically distinct, metal-mediated reactions. Hydroboration and Heck reactions, catalyzed by Rh–NHC and Pd–NHC complexes, respectively, were found to result in yields that were up to ten times lower when π-withdrawing substituents were incorporated into the NHC backbone relative to analogues bearing σ-withdrawing groups.
Databáze: OpenAIRE