Ritter Florian, Mukherjee Debabrata, Spaniol Thomas P, Hoffmann Alexander, Okuda Jun
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 1, 52056, Aachen, Germany.
Current address: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, 721302, India.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2019 Feb 4;58(6):1818-1822. doi: 10.1002/anie.201811890. Epub 2019 Jan 3.
Redox-unstable cuprous hydridotriphenylborate was isolated as an N-heterocyclic carbene adduct [(IPr)Cu(HBPh )] (IPr=1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) with good thermal stability. Although this compound displays a contact ion-pair structure, Cu H-like catalytic activity was envisaged in carbonyl hydrosilylation. Sufficient moisture stability allowed the catalysis in aqueous/organic media. Mechanistic study further showed that a phenyl group on the borate anion is abstracted by [(IPr)Cu] to give the cationic organocopper complex [(IPr) Cu (μ-Ph)][BPh ].
氧化还原不稳定的氢化三苯基硼酸亚铜以具有良好热稳定性的N-杂环卡宾加合物[(IPr)Cu(HBPh₃)](IPr = 1,3-双(2,6-二异丙基苯基)咪唑-2-亚基)形式被分离出来。尽管该化合物呈现出接触离子对结构,但在羰基氢化硅烷化反应中设想具有类似Cu-H的催化活性。足够的水分稳定性使得其能够在水/有机介质中进行催化反应。机理研究进一步表明,硼酸根阴离子上的一个苯基被[(IPr)Cu]夺取,生成阳离子有机铜配合物[(IPr)₂Cu(μ-Ph)][BPh₄]。