Copper and palladium complexes with N-heterocyclic carbene ligands functionalised with carboxylate groups |
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Authors: | Andreas A Danopoulos Pamela Cole Steven P Downing David Pugh |
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Institution: | School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK |
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Abstract: | The new imidazolium salts functionalised with the trimethylsilyl ester group 1a–c, were easily obtained by quaternisation of alkyl- or aryl-imidazoles with trimethylsilyl bromoacetate. Salt 1a was isolated and fully characterised. It reacted with mesityl copper (Cu5Mes5) under trimethylsilyl abstraction to form the complex 2. Methanolysis of 1a–c gave good yields of the carboxylic acid functionalised imidazolium salts 3a–c. Deprotonation of the latter in liquid ammonia led to the zwitterionic imidazolium carboxylates 4a–c. Reaction of 4a with (Cu5Mes5) gave solutions from which the insoluble polymeric 5a crystallised slowly. Generation of the carboxylate-functionalised NHC in situ followed by reaction with Pd(OOCCH3)2 gave the new complex 6a in which the NHC-carboxylate ligand is chelate bidentate. |
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