Han, Bo published the artcileChromium- and Cobalt-Catalyzed, Regiocontrolled Hydrogenation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study, Computed Properties of 258278-25-0, the publication is Journal of the American Chemical Society (2019), 141(22), 9018-9026, database is CAplus and MEDLINE.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are difficult substrates for hydrogenation because of the thermodn. stability caused by aromaticity. We report here the first chromium- and cobalt-catalyzed, regiocontrolled hydrogenation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at ambient temperature These reactions were promoted by low-cost chromium or cobalt salts combined with diimino/carbene ligand and methylmagnesium bromide and are characterized by high regioselectivity and expanded substrate scope that includes tetracene, tetraphene, pentacene, and perylene, which have rarely been reduced. The approach provides a cost-effective catalytic protocol for hydrogenation, is scalable, and can be utilized in the synthesis of tetrabromo- and carboxyl-substituted motifs through functionalization of the hydrogenation product. The systematic theor. mechanistic modelings suggest that low-valent Cr and Co monohydride species, most likely from zerovalent transition metals, are capable of mediating these hydrogenations of fused PAHs.
Journal of the American Chemical Society published new progress about 258278-25-0. 258278-25-0 belongs to imidazoles-derivatives, auxiliary class Achiral NHCs Ligands, name is 1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-3-ium chloride, and the molecular formula is C27H39ClN2, Computed Properties of 258278-25-0.
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