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Rational Preparation of Well-Defined Multinuclear Iridium-Aluminum Polyhydride Clusters and Comparative Reactivity
Camp, Clément,Del Rosal, Iker,Escomel, Léon,Jeanneau, Erwann,Maron, Laurent,Robin, Emmanuel,Soulé, Na?me,Thieuleux, Chloé
, (2022/02/10)
We report an original alkane elimination approach, entailing the protonolysis of triisobutylaluminum by the acidic hydrides from Cp*IrH4. This strategy allows access to a series of well-defined tri- and tetranuclear iridium aluminum polyhydride clusters, depending on the stoichiometry: [Cp*IrH3Al(iBu)2]2(1), [Cp*IrH2Al(iBu)]2(2), [(Cp*IrH3)2Al(iBu)] (3), and [(Cp*IrH3)3Al] (4). Contrary to most transition-metal aluminohydride complexes, which can be considered as [AlHx+3]x-aluminates and LnM+moieties, the situation here is reversed: These complexes have original structures that are best described as [Cp*IrHx]n-iridate units surrounding cationic Al(III) fragments. This is corroborated by reactivity studies, which show that the hydrides are always retained at the iridium sites and that the [Cp*IrH3]-moieties are labile and can be transmetalated to yield potassium ([KIrCp*H3], 8) or silver (([AgIrCp*H3]n, 10) derivatives of potential synthetic interest. DFT calculations show that the bonding situation can vary in these systems, from 3-center 2-electron hydride-bridged Lewis adducts of the form Ir-H←Al to direct polarized metal-metal interaction from donation of d-electrons of Ir to the Al metal, and both types of interactions take place to some extent in each of these clusters.
Hydrogenative metathesis of enynes via piano-stool ruthenium carbene complexes formed by alkyne gem-hydrogenation
Peil, Sebastian,Bistoni, Giovanni,Goddard, Richard,Fürstner, Alois
supporting information, p. 18541 - 18553 (2020/11/17)
The only recently discovered gem-hydrogenation of internal alkynes is a fundamentally new transformation, in which both H atoms of dihydrogen are transferred to the same C atom of a triple bond while the other position transforms into a discrete metal carbene complex. [Cp?RuCl]4 is presently the catalyst of choice: the resulting piano-stool ruthenium carbenes can engage a tethered alkene into either cyclopropanation or metathesis, and a prototypical example of such a reactive intermediate with an olefin ligated to the ruthenium center has been isolated and characterized by X-ray diffraction. It is the substitution pattern of the olefin that determines whether metathesis or cyclopropanation takes place: a systematic survey using alkenes of largely different character in combination with a computational study of the mechanism at the local coupled cluster level of theory allowed the preparative results to be sorted and an intuitive model with predictive power to be proposed. This model links the course of the reaction to the polarization of the double bond as well as to the stability of the secondary carbene complex formed, if metathesis were to take place. The first application of "hydrogenative metathesis"to the total synthesis of sinularones E and F concurred with this interpretation and allowed the proposed structure of these marine natural products to be confirmed. During this synthesis, it was found that gem-hydrogenation also provides opportunities for C-H functionalization. Moreover, silylated alkynes are shown to participate well in hydrogenative metathesis, which opens a new entry into valuable allylsilane building blocks. Crystallographic evidence suggests that the polarized [Ru-Cl] bond of the catalyst interacts with the neighboring R3Si group. Since attractive interligand Cl/R3Si contacts had already previously been invoked to explain the outcome of various ruthenium-catalyzed reactions, including trans-hydrosilylation, the experimental confirmation provided herein has implications beyond the present case.
Synthesis and catalytic performance of zeolite-Y supported on silicon carbide in n-heptane cracking
Alhassan, Saeed M.,Berthod, Mikael,Dabbawala, Aasif A.,Joseph, Tony,Khan, Shaihroz,Mittal, Hemant,Morin, Stephane,Singaravel, Gnana,Vaithilingam, Balasubramanian V.,Wahedi, Yasser Al
, (2020/10/27)
In this work, we demonstrate a facile approach for the synthesis of zeolite-Y crystals (size, ca. ~400 nm) supported on silicon carbide (SiC) with the assistance of the cationic template (polydiallyldimethylammonium chloride, PDDA). The polymeric cationic template used to treat SiC particles induces a positive charge on SiC surface which electrostatically attracts negatively charged aluminosilicate seeds and promotes the growth of zeolite (ZY) particles over SiC, thus leading to the formation of stable ZY?SiC supported catalysts. The supported ZY catalysts with different weight ratio of ZY and SiC were synthesized and characterized by various techniques such as XRD, SEM, SEM-EDX, SEM-mapping, TEM, STEM, FT-IR, 27Al MAS NMR and N2 sorption. The characterization of the supported ZY catalysts suggests the uniform growth of ZY particles over SiC together with the creation of hierarchical micro-mesopores assembly. In the catalytic cracking of n-heptane, the catalyst ZY?SiC-50 displayed a remarkable improvement in reaction rate when compared to commercial zeolite-Y (CBV-600) amounting to 3.5 folds enhancement. Interestingly, the light olefins yield is also substantially improved. At WHSV of 8 h?1 and 475 °C, the highest light olefin yield (24–36 %) was achieved over ZY?SiC-50 whereas the reference catalyst, CBV-600 produced lower light olefins yield (7–17 %). Moreover, the supported ZY catalyst exhibited less deactivation rates. This improved performance is attributed to the hierarchical micro-mesopores assembly created by the homogeneous dispersion of zeolite crystals on SiC which offers fast diffusion pathways for the reactants and enhanced accessibility to active sites thus leading to higher observed reaction rates and fast diffusion of products thus minimizing the occurrence of side reactions.