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Mizoroki-Heck Cross-coupling Reactions Catalyzed by Dichloro{bis[1,1',1''-(phosphinetriyl)tripiperidine]}palladium Under Mild Reaction Conditions
Published on: March 20, 2014
Computational study of the Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction in the gas phase and in dichloromethane solution
Lauri Sikk1, Jaana Tammiku-Taul, Peeter Burk
1Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Ravila 14A St, 50411 Tartu, Estonia. lsikk@ut.ee
Abstract:
The Sonogashira cross-couplig reaction, consisting of oxidative addition, cis-trans isomerization, transmetalation, and reductive elimination, was computationally modeled using the DFT B3LYP/cc-pVDZ method for reaction between bromobenzene and phenylacetylene. Palladium diphosphane was used as a catalyst, copper(I) bromide as a co-catalyst and trimethylamine as a base. The reaction mechanism was studied both in the gas phase and in dichloromethane solution using PCM method. The complete catalytic cycle is thermodynamically strongly shifted toward products (diphenylacetylene and regenerated palladium catalyst) and is exothermic being in accordance with experimental data. The rate-determining step is the oxidative addition, since the highest point on the Gibbs energy graph of the complete reaction is the transition state of this step. This conclusion is also supported by recent experimental data. The computed energy profile suggests that the transmetalation step is initiated by the dissociation of neutral ligand, while the activation Gibbs energy of this step is 0.1 kcal mol(-1) in the gas phase.
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