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Substrate Redox Non-innocence Inducing Stepwise Oxidative Addition Reaction: Nitrosoarene C–N Bond Cleavage on Low-Coordinate Cobalt(0) Species
journal contribution
posted on 2019-05-02, 00:00 authored by Dongyang Wang, Xuebing Leng, Shengfa Ye, Liang DengThe reactions of
nitrosoarenes with transition-metal species
are fundamentally important for their relevance to metal-catalyzed
transformations of organo-nitrogen compounds in organic synthesis
and also the metabolization of nitroarenes and anilines in biology.
In addition to the well-known reactivity of metal-mediated N–O
bond activation and cleavage of nitrosoarenes, we present herein
the first observation of a nitrosoarene C–N bond oxidative
addition reaction upon the interaction of a three-coordinate cobalt(0)
species [(IPr)Co(vtms)2] with 2,4,6-tri(tert-butyl)-1-nitroso-benzene (Ar*NO). The reaction produces a cobalt
nitrosyl aryl complex, [(IPr)Co(Ar*)(NO)] (1),
with a bis(nitrosoarene)cobalt complex, [(IPr)Co(η2-ONAr)(κ1-O-ONAr)] (2), as an intermediate. Spectroscopic characterizations, DFT
calculations, and kinetic studies revealed that the redox non-innocence
of nitrosoarene induces a stepwise pathway for the C–N
bond oxidative addition reaction.