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Does Lewis basicity correlate with catalytic performance in zerovalent group 8 complexes?

  • Holger Braunschweig EMAIL logo , Carina Brunecker , Rian D. Dewhurst and Christoph Schneider
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Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B
From the journal Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B Volume 73 Issue 3-4

Abstract

A set of 18 zerovalent group 8 metal complexes of the form [MLn(CO)5−n] (M=Fe, Ru, Os; L=neutral donor; n=0–2) were screened for their catalytic performance in aldehyde hydrosilylation and olefin hydroboration reactions. Although none of the untested catalysts were found to perform better than the previously-published complex [Fe(CO)4(IMes)] (IMes=1,3-Dimesityliidazol-2-ylidene), the results suggest that the Lewis basicity of the metal complex does not play a critical role in the catalysis of these two reactions.

Keywords: catalysis; hydroboration; hydrosilylation; iron; Lewis pairs

Acknowledgment

The authors are grateful for financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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The online version of this article offers supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/znb-2017-0193).

Received: 2017-12-12
Accepted: 2017-12-15
Published Online: 2018-2-22
Published in Print: 2018-4-25

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https://doi.org/10.1515/znb-2017-0193
Keywords for this article
catalysis; hydroboration; hydrosilylation; iron; Lewis pairs

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  6. Synthesis, characterization, anticancer and antimicrobial study of arene ruthenium(II) complexes with 1,2,4-triazole ligands containing an α-diimine moiety
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