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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 14, Issue 35, Pages 11222-11230Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200801378
Keywords
carbenes; catalysis; density functional calculations; reaction mechanisms; transmetalation
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- MEC (Spain) [CTQ2007-67730-C02-01/BQU, CSD2007-0006]
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Transmetalation reactions from, chromium(0) Fischer carbene complexes to late-transition-metal complexes (palladium(0), copper(I), and rhodium(I)) have been studied computationally by density functional theory. The computational data were compared with the available experimental data. In this study, the different reaction pathways involving the different metal atoms have been compared with each other in terms of their activation barriers and reaction energies. Although the reaction profiles for the transmetalation reactions to palladium and copper are quite similar, the computed energy values indicate that the process involving palladium as catalyst is more favorable than that involving copper. In contrast to these transformations, which occur via triangular heterobimetallic species, the transmetalation reaction to rhodium leads to a new heterobimetallic species in which a carbonyl ligand is also transferred from the Fischer carbene to the rhodium catalyst. Moreover, the structure and bonding situation of the so far elusive heterobimetallic complexes are briefly discussed.
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