Effect of phosphine and phosphine sulfide ligands on the cobalt-catalyzed reductive coupling of 2-iodobutane with n-butyl acrylate

Sen Ichi Aizawa*, Koichi Fukumoto, Tatsuya Kawamoto

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Abstract

Tris[2-(diphenylphosphino)ethyl]phosphine disulfide (pp3S2), in which two terminal phosphino groups are selectively sulfidated, was prepared by utilizing the selective sulfidation reaction of [PdI(pp3)]I. Co(II) complexes with bidentate, tridentate and tetradentate phosphines and pp3S2 were prepared from anhydrous CoI2. X-ray crystal analyses revealed that the reaction of CoI2 with 1 equivalent of 1,2-bis(diphen-ylphosphino) ethane (p2) gave rise to partial oxidation of p2 to give the dicationic octahedral [Co(p2O2)2(CH 3CN)2]2+ (p2O2 = p 2 dioxide) and dianionic p2O-bridged tetrahedral dinuclear [CoI3(p2-O)CoI3]2 (p2O = p2 monooxide) complexes, while the reaction with 2 equivalents of p2 gave the square-pyramidal [CoI(p2)2] + complex. The catalytic activity for the Co-catalyzed coupling reaction of 2-iodobutane with n-butyl acrylate was compared using multidentate phosphines and phosphine sulfides as ligands, and the efficiency of the phosphine sulfides was shown. The tendency for multidentate phosphine to deactivate the Co-catalysis can substantiate an oxidative addition driven mechanism in which the multidentate ligand should interfere with the formation of the alkyl halide Co(III) adduct and subsequent coordination of an alkene.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)37-41
Number of pages5
JournalPolyhedron
Volume62
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013

Keywords

  • Activated alkene
  • Cobalt-catalyzed reductive coupling
  • Oxidative addition driven mechanism
  • Phosphine sulfide ligand

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry

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