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Facile NN Activation in Benzotriazole: Capturing the Dimroth Azo/Triazole Intermediate by Complexation to Iridium
D Scott Bohle1, Zhijie Chua1, Inna Perepichka1
1Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, H3A 0B8 (Canada).
Abstract:
The in situ observation of benzotriazole ring and ring-opened isomers, which result from the Dimroth equilibrium for 1-[(nonafluorobutane)sulfonyl]benzotriazole, 1, in solution by 19 F NMR and UV/Vis spectroscopy is reported. Two benzotriazoles, compound 1 and 1,1'-sulfonylbis(benzotriazole) (3), undergo Dimroth triazole ring opening and coordination to an iridium(I) metal center to give either linear diazo [IrI (η1 -NNPhNSO2 C4 F9 )(Cl)(PPh3 )2 ] (2) or an unusual double bent diazene [IrIII (η3 -NNPhNSO2 Btz)(Cl)(PPh3 )2 ] (4; Btz=benzotriazole) complex.
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