Intermolecular C—H Bond Activation Reactions Promoted by Transient Titanium Alkylidynes. Synthesis, Reactivity, Kinetic, and Theoretical Studies of the Ti~C Linkage.

The neopentylidene-neopentyl complex (PNP)TiCHBu(CHBu) (2; PNP = N[2-P(CHMe)-4-methylphenyl]), prepared from the precursor (PNP)TiCHBu(OTf) (1) and LiCHBu, extrudes neopentane in neat benzene under mild conditions (25 °C) to generate the transient titanium alkylidyne, (PNP)TiCBu (A), which subseq...

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Published in:Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 129; no. 28; pp. 8781 - 8794
Main Authors: Bailey, Brad C., Hongjun Fan, Huffman, John C., Mu-Hyun Baik, Mindiola, Daniel J.
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Published: American Chemical Society 7/18/2007
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          Bailey, Brad C.
          Hongjun Fan
          Huffman, John C.
          Mu-Hyun Baik
          Mindiola, Daniel J.
        affil: Contribution from the Molecular Structure Center and School of Informatics, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
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        Chemical bonds
        Chemical structure
        Physical & theoretical chemistry
        Titanium compounds
        Chlorodimethylpropane
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          Chemical bonds
          Chemical structure
          Physical & theoretical chemistry
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          Chlorodimethylpropane
      ab: The neopentylidene-neopentyl complex (PNP)TiCHBu(CHBu) (2; PNP = N[2-P(CHMe)-4-methylphenyl]), prepared from the precursor (PNP)TiCHBu(OTf) (1) and LiCHBu, extrudes neopentane in neat benzene under mild conditions (25 °C) to generate the transient titanium alkylidyne, (PNP)TiCBu (A), which subsequently undergoes 1,2-CH bond addition of benzene across the TiC linkage to generate (PNP)TiCHBu(CH) (3). Kinetic, mechanistic, and theoretical studies suggest the CH activation process to obey pseudo-first-order in titanium, the α-hydrogen abstraction to be the rate-determining step (KIE for 2/2-d conversion to 3/3-d = 3.9(5) at 40 °C) with activation parameters ΔH‡ = 24(7) kcal/mol and ΔS‡ = -2(3) cal/mol·K, and the post-rate-determining step to be C-H bond activation of benzene (primary KIE = 1.03(7) at 25 °C for the intermolecular C-H activation reaction in CH vs CD). A KIE of 1.33(3) at 25 °C arose when the intramolecular C-H activation reaction was monitored with 1,3,5-CHD. For the activation of aromatic C-H bonds, however, the formation of the σ-complex becomes rate-determining via a hypothetical intermediate (PNP)TiCBu(CH), and C-H bond rupture is promoted in a heterolytic fashion by applying standard Lewis acid/base chemistry. Thermolysis of 3 in CD at 95 °C over 48 h generates 3-d, thereby implying that 3 can slowly equilibrate with A under elevated temperatures with k = 1.2(2) × 10 s, and with activation parameters ΔH‡ = 31(16) kcal/mol and ΔS‡ = 3(9) cal/mol·K. At 95 °C for one week, the EIE for the 2 → 3 reaction in 1,3,5-CHD was found to be 1.36(7). When 1 is alkylated with LiCHSiMe and KCHPh, the complexes (PNP)TiCHBu(CHSiMe) (4) and (PNP)TiCHBu(CHPh) (6) are formed, respectively, along with their corresponding tautomers (PNP)TiCHSiMe(CHBu) (5) and (PNP)TiCHPh(CHBu) (7). By means of similar alkylations of (PNP)TiCIHSiMe(OTf) (8), the degenerate complex (PNP)TiCHSiMe(CHSiMe) (9) or the non-degenerate alkylidene-alkyl complex (PNP)TiCHPh(CHSiMe) (11) can also be obtained, the latter of which results from a tautomerization process. Compounds 4/5 and 9, or 6/7 and 11, also activate benzene to afford (PNP)TiCHR(CH) (R = SiMe (10), Ph (12)). Substrates such as FCH, 1,2-FCH, and 1,4-FCH react at the aryl C-H bond with intermediate A, in some cases regioselectively, to form the neopentylidene-aryl derivatives (PNP)TiCHBu(aryl).…
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