scholarly journals Calculation of a methane carbon-hydrogen oxidative addition trajectory: comparison to experiment and methane activation by high-valent complexes

1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 340-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Cundari

2002 ◽  
Vol 21 (16) ◽  
pp. 3311-3313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaorong Wang ◽  
Haiping Wang ◽  
Hung-Wing Li ◽  
Zuowei Xie


Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 360 (6392) ◽  
pp. 1010-1014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chip Le ◽  
Tiffany Q. Chen ◽  
Tao Liang ◽  
Patricia Zhang ◽  
David W. C. MacMillan

Transition metal–catalyzed arene functionalization has been widely used for molecular synthesis over the past century. In this arena, copper catalysis has long been considered a privileged platform due to the propensity of high-valent copper to undergo reductive elimination with a wide variety of coupling fragments. However, the sluggish nature of oxidative addition has limited copper’s capacity to broadly facilitate haloarene coupling protocols. Here, we demonstrate that this copper oxidative addition problem can be overcome with an aryl radical–capture mechanism, wherein the aryl radical is generated through a silyl radical halogen abstraction. This strategy was applied to a general trifluoromethylation of aryl bromides through dual copper-photoredox catalysis. Mechanistic studies support the formation of an open-shell aryl species.



2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (34) ◽  
pp. 15232-15243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mursaleem Ansari ◽  
Nidhi Vyas ◽  
Azaj Ansari ◽  
Gopalan Rajaraman

Methane activation by dinuclear high-valent iron–oxo species: do we need two metals to activate such inert bonds? Our theoretical study using DFT methods where electronic structure details and mechanistic aspects are established answers this intriguing question.



2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniyal Kiani ◽  
Sagar Sourav ◽  
Yadan Tang ◽  
Jonas Baltrusaitis ◽  
Israel E. Wachs

The literature on methane dehydroaromatization (MDA) to benzene using ZSM-5 supported, group V–VIII transition metal-based catalysts (MOx/ZSM-5) is critically reviewed with a focus on in situ and operando molecular insights.



1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 902-902
Author(s):  
Jerome Silestre ◽  
Maria Calhorda ◽  
Roald Hoffman ◽  
Page Stoutland ◽  
Robert Bergman


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra Gomez-Torres ◽  
J. Rolando Aguilar-Calderón ◽  
Carlos Saucedo ◽  
Aldo Jordan ◽  
Alejandro J. Metta-Magaña ◽  
...  

<p>The masked Ti(II) synthon (<sup>Ket</sup>guan)(<i>η</i><sup>6</sup>-Im<sup>Dipp</sup>N)Ti (<b>1</b>) oxidatively adds across thiophene to give ring-opened (<sup>Ket</sup>guan)(Im<sup>Dipp</sup>N)Ti[<i>κ</i><sup>2</sup>-<i>S</i>(CH)<sub>3</sub><i>C</i>H] (<b>2</b>). Complex <b>2</b> is photosensitive, and upon exposure to light, reductively eliminates thiophene to regenerate <b>1</b> – a rare example of early-metal mediated oxidative-addition/reductive-elimination chemistry. DFT calculations indicate strong titanium π-backdonation to the thiophene π*-orbitals leads to the observed thiophene ring opening across titanium, while a proposed photoinduced LMCT promotes the reverse thiophene elimination from <b>2</b>. Finally, pressurizing solutions of <b>2 </b>with H<sub>2</sub> (150 psi) at 80 °C leads to the hydrodesulfurization of thiophene to give the Ti(IV) sulfide (<sup>Ket</sup>guan)(Im<sup>Dipp</sup>N)Ti(S) (<b>3</b>) and butane. </p>



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