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ArticleKAUST Department
Chemical Science ProgramKAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2013Permanent link to this record
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We discuss the impact of the nature of the heterocyclic carbene ring, when used as a complex forming ligand, on the relative stability of key intermediates in three typical Ru, Pd and Au promoted reactions. Results show that P-heterocyclic carbenes have a propensity to increase the bonding of the labile ligand and of the substrate in Ru-promoted olefin metathesis, whereas negligible impact is expected on the stability of the ruthenacycle intermediate. In the case of Pd cross-coupling reactions, dissociation of a P-heterocyclic carbene is easier than dissociation of the N-heterocyclic analogue. In the case of the Au-OH synthon, the Au-OH bond is weakened with the P-heterocyclic carbene ligands. A detailed energy decomposition analysis is performed to rationalize these results. © 2013 The Royal Society of Chemistry.Citation
Falivene, L., Caporaso, L., Cavallo, L., & Jacobsen, H. (2013). Electronic bond tuning with heterocyclic carbenes. Dalton Transactions, 42(20), 7281. doi:10.1039/c3dt32923bSponsors
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. CP-FP 211468-2 EUMET. L. C. thanks the HPC team of Enea for using the ENEA-GRID and the HPC facilities CRESCO in Portici, Italy.Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)Journal
Dalton Transactionsae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1039/c3dt32923b