Agata, Ryosuke; Takaya, Hikaru; Matsuda, Hiroshi; Nakatani, Naoki; Takeuchi, Katsuhiko; Iwamoto, Takahiro; Hatakeyama, Takuji; Nakamura, Masaharu published an article on February 28 ,2019. The article was titled 《Iron-catalyzed cross coupling of aryl chlorides with alkyl grignard reagents: synthetic scope and Fe(II)/Fe(IV) mechanism supported by X-ray absorption spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations》, and you may find the article in Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan.Product Details of 258278-25-0 The information in the text is summarized as follows:
A combination of Fe(III) fluoride and 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazolin-2-ylidene (SIPr) catalyzes the high-yielding cross coupling of an electron-rich aryl chloride with an alkyl Grignard reagent, which cannot be attained using other Fe catalysts. A variety of alkoxy- or amino-substituted aryl chlorides can be cross-coupled with various alkyl Grignard reagents regardless of the presence or absence of β-hydrogens in the alkyl group. A radical probe experiment using 1-(but-3-enyl)-2-chlorobenzene does not afford the corresponding cyclization product, therefore excluding the intermediacy of radical species. Solution-phase x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) anal., with the help of d. functional theory (DFT) calculations, indicates the formation of a high-spin (S = 2) heteroleptic difluorido organoferrate(II), [MgX][Fe(II)F2(SIPr)(Me/alkyl)], in the reaction mixture DFT calculations also support a feasible reaction pathway, including the formation of a difluorido organoferrate(II) intermediate which undergoes a novel Lewis acid-assisted oxidative addition to form a neutral organoiron(IV) intermediate, which leads to an Fe(II)/Fe(IV) catalytic cycle, where the fluorido ligand and the Mg ion play key roles. The results came from multiple reactions, including the reaction of 1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-3-ium chloride(cas: 258278-25-0Product Details of 258278-25-0)
1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-3-ium chloride(cas: 258278-25-0) has been employed in an efficient, one-pot synthesis of N-heterocyclic carbene-allylpalladium complexes.Product Details of 258278-25-0In addition, it can efficiently catalyze the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of aryl chlorides with aryl boronic acids.
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