A Versatile Palladium Synthon: [Pd(NHC)(PhC≡CPh)] (NHC = N-Heterocyclic Carbene)

Francis Bru, Mathieu Lesieur, Albert Poater, Alexandra Slawin, Luigi Cavallo, Catherine Cazin

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Abstract

The synthesis and isolation of [Pd(NHC)(PhC≡CPh)] complexes are reported. These new 14-electron Pd(0)-complexes are key synthons leading to known palladium(0) and palladium(II) species, as well as permitting access to  unprecedented mixed NHC-phosphite palladium(0) complexes.This motif permits the facile catalytic hydrosilylation of allenes. DFT calculations have allowed to characterize the relatively weak interaction between the metal and the diphenylacetylene ligand, with a comparison with a series of ligands with more or less coordinating power, bearing varied structural and electronic effects.
Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalChemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
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StatePublished - Sep 1 2022

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2022-09-14
Acknowledgements: We gratefully acknowledge support of this research by the FWO(G054619N) and the UGentBOF.A.P. is a Serra Húnter Fellow and ICREA Academia Prize 2019 and thanks the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación for project PID2021- 127423NB-I00. L.C. thanks, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Supercomputing Laboratory (KSL).

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  • General Chemistry

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