Bifunctional activation of amine-boranes by the W/Pd bimetallic analogs of “frustrated Lewis pairs” |
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| Authors: | Elena S. Osipova Ekaterina S. Gulyaeva Evgenii I. Gutsul Vladislava A. Kirkina Alexander A. Pavlov Yulia V. Nelyubina Andrea Rossin Maurizio Peruzzini Lina M. Epstein Natalia V. Belkova Oleg A. Filippov Elena S. Shubina |
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| Affiliation: | A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences (INEOS RAS), Vavilova Str. 28, 119991 Moscow Russia.; Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organometallici – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ICCOM – CNR), Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italy, |
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| Abstract: | The reaction between basic [(PCP)Pd(H)] (PCP = 2,6-(CH2P(t-C4H9)2)2C6H4) and acidic [LWH(CO)3] (L = Cp (1a), Tp (1b); Cp = η5-cyclopentadienyl, Tp = κ3-hydridotris(pyrazolyl)borate) leads to the formation of bimolecular complexes [LW(CO)2(μ-CO)⋯Pd(PCP)] (4a, 4b), which catalyze amine-borane (Me2NHBH3, tBuNH2BH3) dehydrogenation. The combination of variable-temperature (1H, 31P{1H}, 11B NMR and IR) spectroscopies and computational (ωB97XD/def2-TZVP) studies reveal the formation of an η1-borane complex [(PCP)Pd(Me2NHBH3)]+[LW(CO3)]− (5) in the first step, where a BH bond strongly binds palladium and an amine group is hydrogen-bonded to tungsten. The subsequent intracomplex proton transfer is the rate-determining step, followed by an almost barrierless hydride transfer. Bimetallic species 4 are easily regenerated through hydrogen evolution in the reaction between two hydrides.Bimetallic complexes [LW(CO)2(μ-CO)⋯Pd(PCP)] cooperatively activate amine-boranes for their dehydrogenation via N–H proton tunneling at RDS and H2 evolution from two neutral hydrides. |
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