Realizing Metal-Free Carbene-Catalyzed Carbonylation Reactions with CO

Autor: Max M. Hansmann, Eder Tomás-Mendivil, Jesse L Peltier, Rodolphe Jazzar, Daniel R. Tolentino, Guy Bertrand
Přispěvatelé: University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Chemical Society
Journal of the American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society, 2020, 142 (43), pp.18336-18340. ⟨10.1021/jacs.0c09938⟩
ISSN: 1520-5126
0002-7863
Popis: International audience; Many organic and main group compounds, usually acids or bases, can accelerate chemical reactions when used in substoichiometric quantities, a process known as organocatalysis. In marked contrast, very few of these compounds are able to activate carbon monoxide and, until now, none of them catalyze its chemical transformation, a classical task for transition metals. Herein, we report that a stable singlet ambiphilic carbene activates CO and catalytically promotes the carbonylation of an ortho-quinone into a cyclic carbonate. These findings pave the way for the discovery of metal-free catalyzed carbonylation reactions.
Databáze: OpenAIRE