[(IPent)PdCl2(morpholine)]: a readily activated precatalyst for room-temperature, additive-free carbon-sulfur
Jennifer L Farmer1, Matthew Pompeo, Alan J Lough
1Department of Chemistry, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3 (Canada).
Abstract:
A series of new, easily activated NHC-Pd(II) precatalysts featuring a trans-oriented morpholine ligand were prepared and evaluated for activity in carbon-sulfur cross-coupling chemistry. [(IPent)PdCl2(morpholine)] (IPent=1,3-bis(2,6-di(3-pentyl)phenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) was identified as the most active precatalyst and was shown to effectively couple a wide variety of deactivated aryl halides with both aryl and alkyl thiols at or near ambient temperature, without the need for additives, external activators, or pre-activation steps. Mechanistic studies revealed that, in contrast to other common NHC-Pd(II) precatalysts, these complexes are rapidly reduced to the active NHC-Pd(0) species at ambient temperature in the presence of KOtBu, thus avoiding the formation of deleterious off-cycle Pd(II)-thiolate resting states.
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