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Differences between the elimination of early and late transition metals: DFT mechanistic insights into the titanium-catalyzed synthesis of pyrroles from alkynes and diazenes
Early transition metals (TMs), such as titanium, generally resist undergoing reductive elimination to form C–X bonds due to their weak electronegativity. By analyzing the mechanism of the titanium-catalyzed synthesis of pyrroles from alkynes and diazenes, the present study revealed that titanium is...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5369339/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28451348 http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6sc04456e |
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author | Guo, Jiandong Deng, Xi Song, Chunyu Lu, Yu Qu, Shuanglin Dang, Yanfeng Wang, Zhi-Xiang |
author_facet | Guo, Jiandong Deng, Xi Song, Chunyu Lu, Yu Qu, Shuanglin Dang, Yanfeng Wang, Zhi-Xiang |
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description | Early transition metals (TMs), such as titanium, generally resist undergoing reductive elimination to form C–X bonds due to their weak electronegativity. By analyzing the mechanism of the titanium-catalyzed synthesis of pyrroles from alkynes and diazenes, the present study revealed that titanium is able to promote C–N bond formation via an unconventional elimination pathway, passing through a comparatively stable masked Ti(II) complex (i.e., IM4) rather than pyrrole directly. The formation of IM4 originates from the bilateral donation and back-donation between Ti and the pyrrole ligand. Formally, it could be considered that the two electrons resulting from the unconventional reductive elimination are temporarily buffered by back-donation to a symmetry-allowed unoccupied π-orbital of the pyrrole ring in IM4 rather than becoming a lone pair on a Ti center as adopted in the catalysis of late TMs. Because of its stability, IM4 requires additional oxidation by diazene to liberate pyrrole. The triplet counterpart (IM4(T) ) of IM4 is more stable than IM4, but the elimination is unlikely to reach IM4(T) , because the process is spin-forbidden and the spin–orbit coupling is weak. Alternatively, one may consider the forming pyrrole in IM4 as a redox-active ligand, reserving the two electrons resulting from the formal reductive elimination and then releasing the electrons when IM4 is oxidized by diazene. These insights allow us to propose the conditions for early TMs to undergo a similar elimination, whereby the forming product will have symmetry-allowed frontier molecular orbitals to form donation and back-donation bonding with a TM center and a substrate possessing a comparatively strong oxidizing ability to oxidize an IM4-like intermediate for product release. These insights may provide another way of constructing C–X bonds through a similar reductive elimination pathway, using early TM catalysts. |
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spelling | pubmed-53693392017-04-27 Differences between the elimination of early and late transition metals: DFT mechanistic insights into the titanium-catalyzed synthesis of pyrroles from alkynes and diazenes Guo, Jiandong Deng, Xi Song, Chunyu Lu, Yu Qu, Shuanglin Dang, Yanfeng Wang, Zhi-Xiang Chem Sci Chemistry Early transition metals (TMs), such as titanium, generally resist undergoing reductive elimination to form C–X bonds due to their weak electronegativity. By analyzing the mechanism of the titanium-catalyzed synthesis of pyrroles from alkynes and diazenes, the present study revealed that titanium is able to promote C–N bond formation via an unconventional elimination pathway, passing through a comparatively stable masked Ti(II) complex (i.e., IM4) rather than pyrrole directly. The formation of IM4 originates from the bilateral donation and back-donation between Ti and the pyrrole ligand. Formally, it could be considered that the two electrons resulting from the unconventional reductive elimination are temporarily buffered by back-donation to a symmetry-allowed unoccupied π-orbital of the pyrrole ring in IM4 rather than becoming a lone pair on a Ti center as adopted in the catalysis of late TMs. Because of its stability, IM4 requires additional oxidation by diazene to liberate pyrrole. The triplet counterpart (IM4(T) ) of IM4 is more stable than IM4, but the elimination is unlikely to reach IM4(T) , because the process is spin-forbidden and the spin–orbit coupling is weak. Alternatively, one may consider the forming pyrrole in IM4 as a redox-active ligand, reserving the two electrons resulting from the formal reductive elimination and then releasing the electrons when IM4 is oxidized by diazene. These insights allow us to propose the conditions for early TMs to undergo a similar elimination, whereby the forming product will have symmetry-allowed frontier molecular orbitals to form donation and back-donation bonding with a TM center and a substrate possessing a comparatively strong oxidizing ability to oxidize an IM4-like intermediate for product release. These insights may provide another way of constructing C–X bonds through a similar reductive elimination pathway, using early TM catalysts. Royal Society of Chemistry 2017-03-01 2016-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5369339/ /pubmed/28451348 http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6sc04456e Text en This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2017 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) ) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Chemistry Guo, Jiandong Deng, Xi Song, Chunyu Lu, Yu Qu, Shuanglin Dang, Yanfeng Wang, Zhi-Xiang Differences between the elimination of early and late transition metals: DFT mechanistic insights into the titanium-catalyzed synthesis of pyrroles from alkynes and diazenes |
title | Differences between the elimination of early and late transition metals: DFT mechanistic insights into the titanium-catalyzed synthesis of pyrroles from alkynes and diazenes
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title_full | Differences between the elimination of early and late transition metals: DFT mechanistic insights into the titanium-catalyzed synthesis of pyrroles from alkynes and diazenes
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title_fullStr | Differences between the elimination of early and late transition metals: DFT mechanistic insights into the titanium-catalyzed synthesis of pyrroles from alkynes and diazenes
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title_full_unstemmed | Differences between the elimination of early and late transition metals: DFT mechanistic insights into the titanium-catalyzed synthesis of pyrroles from alkynes and diazenes
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title_short | Differences between the elimination of early and late transition metals: DFT mechanistic insights into the titanium-catalyzed synthesis of pyrroles from alkynes and diazenes
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title_sort | differences between the elimination of early and late transition metals: dft mechanistic insights into the titanium-catalyzed synthesis of pyrroles from alkynes and diazenes |
topic | Chemistry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5369339/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28451348 http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6sc04456e |
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