Reactions of Low-Coordinate Cobalt(0)-N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes with Primary Aryl Phosphines
Dongyang Wang1, Qi Chen1, Xuebing Leng1
1State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry , University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 345 Lingling Road , Shanghai 200032 , P. R. China.
Abstract:
Aiming to get knowledge on the reactivity of low-coordinate cobalt(0) species toward primary phosphines, the reactions of [(IPr)Co(vtms)2] and [(ICy)2Co(vtms)] (IPr = 1,3-bis(2',6'-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene, ICy = 1,3-dicyclohexylimidazol-2-ylidene, and vtms = vinyltrimethylsilane) with several primary aryl phosphines have been examined. The reactions of [(IPr)Co(vtms)2] and [(ICy)2Co(vtms)] with H2PDmp (Dmp = 2,6-dimesitylphenyl) at 80 °C furnish the diamagnetic cobalt(I) phosphido complexes [(NHC)Co(PHDmp)] (NHC = IPr, 1; ICy, 2) that feature the Co-(η6-mesityl) interaction. Complex 1 can coordinate CO to generate the terminal phosphido complex [(IPr)Co(CO)3(PHDmp)] (3) and can be oxidized by [Cp2Fe][BArF4] to yield the cobalt(II) phosphido complex [(IPr)Co(PHDmp)][BArF4] (4, BArF4 = tetrakis(3,5-di(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)borate). For the reactions with sterically less-hindered primary phosphines, [(IPr)Co(vtms)2] is inert toward H2PC6H2-2,4,6-Me3 (H2PMes) at room temperature, whereas [(ICy)2Co(vtms)] can react with H2PMes at room temperature to produce the cobalt(II) phosphido alkyl complex trans-[(ICy)2Co(CH2CH2SiMe3)(PHMes)] (5). At 80 °C, the cobalt(0) alkene complexes [(IPr)Co(vtms)2] and [(ICy)2Co(vtms)] and also the cobalt phosphido complexes, 1, 2, and 5 can serve as precatalysts for the dehydrocoupling reaction of H2PMes to afford MesHPPHMes. NHC-Co(I)-phosphido species are proposed as the in-cycle intermediates for these cobalt-catalyzed dehydrocoupling reactions.
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