Experimental and DFT Studies on Cp*Co(III)-Catalyzed Selective C8-Olefination and Oxyarylation of Quinoline N-Oxides with Terminal Alkynes

Author(s):  
Upendra Sharma ◽  
Diksha Parmar ◽  
Ankit Kumar Dhiman ◽  
Rohit Kumar ◽  
Akhhilesh K Sharma

Herein we report Cp*Co(III)-catalysed site-selective (C8)-H olefination and oxyarylation of quinoline N-oxides with terminal alkynes. The selectivity for C8-olefination and oxyarylation is sterically and electronically controlled. In case of quinoline N-oxides (unsubstituted at C2-position), only olefination product is obtained irrespective of the nature of alkynes. In contrast, majorly oxyarylation is observed when 2-substituted quinoline N-oxides are reacted with bulkier alkynes such as 9-ethynyl phenanthrene. However, alkynes with electron-withdrawing groups provided only olefination products with 2-substituted quinoline N-oxides also. The developed strategy allowed a facile functionalization of naturally derived quinoline N-oxides and terminal alkynes to deliver corresponding olefinated and oxyarylated products. In the developed protocol, the 'N-O’ bond played a dual role i.e., as a traceless directing group and an oxygen atom source (in case of oxyarylation), which is confirmed by 18O-labeling and crossover experiments. In addition, control experiments, deuterium labeling experiments, KIE studies and DFT studies are performed to understand the mechanism and origin of selectivity for different substrates. DFT studies revealed that the alkyne addition into Co-C bond is the rate limiting step. The observed product selectivity is reproduced by DFT methods. Furthermore, the energy decomposition analysis is performed to understand the origin of selec-tivity.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noam Saper ◽  
Akito Ohgi ◽  
David Small ◽  
Kazuhiko Semba ◽  
Yoshiaki Nakao ◽  
...  

<div><div><div><p>Anti-Markovnikov additions to alkenes have been a longstanding goal of catalysis, and anti-Markovnikov addition of arenes to alkenes would produce alkylarenes that are distinct from those formed by acid-catalyzed processes. Existing hydroarylations are either directed or occur with low reactivity and low regioselectivities for the linear alkylarene. Herein, we report the first undirected hydroarylation of unactivated alkenes with unactivated arenes that occurs with high regioselectivity for the anti-Markovnikov product. The reaction occurs with a Ni catalyst ligated by a highly sterically hindered N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC, L4 or L5). Catalytically relevant arene- and alkene-bound Ni complexes have been characterized, and the rate-limiting step was shown to be reductive elimination to form the C-C bond. DFT calculations, combined with energy decomposition analysis (EDA), suggest that the difference in activity between catalysts containing large and small carbenes results more from stabilizing intramolecular, non-covalent interactions in the secondary coordination sphere than from steric hindrance.</p></div></div></div>


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noam Saper ◽  
Akito Ohgi ◽  
David Small ◽  
Kazuhiko Semba ◽  
Yoshiaki Nakao ◽  
...  

<div><div><div><p>Anti-Markovnikov additions to alkenes have been a longstanding goal of catalysis, and anti-Markovnikov addition of arenes to alkenes would produce alkylarenes that are distinct from those formed by acid-catalyzed processes. Existing hydroarylations are either directed or occur with low reactivity and low regioselectivities for the linear alkylarene. Herein, we report the first undirected hydroarylation of unactivated alkenes with unactivated arenes that occurs with high regioselectivity for the anti-Markovnikov product. The reaction occurs with a Ni catalyst ligated by a highly sterically hindered N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC, L4 or L5). Catalytically relevant arene- and alkene-bound Ni complexes have been characterized, and the rate-limiting step was shown to be reductive elimination to form the C-C bond. DFT calculations, combined with energy decomposition analysis (EDA), suggest that the difference in activity between catalysts containing large and small carbenes results more from stabilizing intramolecular, non-covalent interactions in the secondary coordination sphere than from steric hindrance.</p></div></div></div>


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Jover

The copper(II) acetate mediated oxidative homocoupling of terminal alkynes, namely, the Eglinton coupling, has been studied with DFT methods. The mechanism of the whole reaction has been modeled using phenylacetylene as substrate. The obtained results indicate that, in contrast to some classical proposals, the reaction does not involve the formation of free alkynyl radicals and proceeds by the dimerization of copper(II) alkynyl complexes followed by a bimetallic reductive elimination. The calculations demonstrate that the rate limiting-step of the reaction is the alkyne deprotonation and that more acidic substrates provide faster reactions, in agreement with the experimental observations.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noam Saper ◽  
Akito Ohgi ◽  
David Small ◽  
Kazuhiko Semba ◽  
Yoshiaki Nakao ◽  
...  

<div><div><div><p>Anti-Markovnikov additions to alkenes have been a longstanding goal of catalysis, and anti-Markovnikov addition of arenes to alkenes would produce alkylarenes that are distinct from those formed by acid-catalyzed processes. Existing hydroarylations are either directed or occur with low reactivity and low regioselectivities for the linear alkylarene. Herein, we report the first undirected hydroarylation of unactivated alkenes with unactivated arenes that occurs with high regioselectivity for the anti-Markovnikov product. The reaction occurs with a Ni catalyst ligated by a highly sterically hindered N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC, L4 or L5). Catalytically relevant arene- and alkene-bound Ni complexes have been characterized, and the rate-limiting step was shown to be reductive elimination to form the C-C bond. DFT calculations, combined with energy decomposition analysis (EDA), suggest that the difference in activity between catalysts containing large and small carbenes results more from stabilizing intramolecular, non-covalent interactions in the secondary coordination sphere than from steric hindrance.</p></div></div></div>


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noam Saper ◽  
Akito Ohgi ◽  
David Small ◽  
Kazuhiko Semba ◽  
Yoshiaki Nakao ◽  
...  

<div><div><div><p>Anti-Markovnikov additions to alkenes have been a longstanding goal of catalysis, and anti-Markovnikov addition of arenes to alkenes would produce alkylarenes that are distinct from those formed by acid-catalyzed processes. Existing hydroarylations are either directed or occur with low reactivity and low regioselectivities for the linear alkylarene. Herein, we report the first undirected hydroarylation of unactivated alkenes with unactivated arenes that occurs with high regioselectivity for the anti-Markovnikov product. The reaction occurs with a Ni catalyst ligated by a highly sterically hindered N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC, L4 or L5). Catalytically relevant arene- and alkene-bound Ni complexes have been characterized, and the rate-limiting step was shown to be reductive elimination to form the C-C bond. DFT calculations, combined with energy decomposition analysis (EDA), suggest that the difference in activity between catalysts containing large and small carbenes results more from stabilizing intramolecular, non-covalent interactions in the secondary coordination sphere than from steric hindrance.</p></div></div></div>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang-Sheng Wang ◽  
Sabrina Monaco ◽  
Anh Ngoc Thai ◽  
Md. Shafiqur Rahman ◽  
Chen Wang ◽  
...  

A catalytic system comprised of a cobalt-diphosphine complex and a Lewis acid (LA) such as AlMe3 has been found to promote hydrocarbofunctionalization reactions of alkynes with Lewis basic and electron-deficient substrates such as formamides, pyridones, pyridines, and azole derivatives through site-selective C-H activation. Compared with known Ni/LA catalytic system for analogous transformations, the present catalytic system not only feature convenient set up using inexpensive and bench-stable precatalyst and ligand such as Co(acac)3 and 1,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)propane (dppp), but also display distinct site-selectivity toward C-H activation of pyridone and pyridine derivatives. In particular, a completely C4-selective alkenylation of pyridine has been achieved for the first time. Mechanistic stidies including DFT calculations on the Co/Al-catalyzed addition of formamide to alkyne have suggested that the reaction involves cleavage of the carbamoyl C-H bond as the rate-limiting step, which proceeds through a ligand-to-ligand hydrogen transfer (LLHT) mechanism leading to an alkyl(carbamoyl)cobalt intermediate.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Vasquez ◽  
Agnieszka Dybala-Defratyka

<p></p><p>Very often in order to understand physical and chemical processes taking place among several phases fractionation of naturally abundant isotopes is monitored. Its measurement can be accompanied by theoretical determination to provide a more insightful interpretation of observed phenomena. Predictions are challenging due to the complexity of the effects involved in fractionation such as solvent effects and non-covalent interactions governing the behavior of the system which results in the necessity of using large models of those systems. This is sometimes a bottleneck and limits the theoretical description to only a few methods.<br> In this work vapour pressure isotope effects on evaporation from various organic solvents (ethanol, bromobenzene, dibromomethane, and trichloromethane) in the pure phase are estimated by combining force field or self-consistent charge density-functional tight-binding (SCC-DFTB) atomistic simulations with path integral principle. Furthermore, the recently developed Suzuki-Chin path integral is tested. In general, isotope effects are predicted qualitatively for most of the cases, however, the distinction between position-specific isotope effects observed for ethanol was only reproduced by SCC-DFTB, which indicates the importance of using non-harmonic bond approximations.<br> Energy decomposition analysis performed using the symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) revealed sometimes quite substantial differences in interaction energy depending on whether the studied system was treated classically or quantum mechanically. Those observed differences might be the source of different magnitudes of isotope effects predicted using these two different levels of theory which is of special importance for the systems governed by non-covalent interactions.</p><br><p></p>


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon B. Bizzarro ◽  
Colin K. Egan ◽  
Francesco Paesani

<div> <div> <div> <p>Interaction energies of halide-water dimers, X<sup>-</sup>(H<sub>2</sub>O), and trimers, X<sup>-</sup>(H<sub>2</sub>O)<sub>2</sub>, with X = F, Cl, Br, and I, are investigated using various many-body models and exchange-correlation functionals selected across the hierarchy of density functional theory (DFT) approximations. Analysis of the results obtained with the many-body models demonstrates the need to capture important short-range interactions in the regime of large inter-molecular orbital overlap, such as charge transfer and charge penetration. Failure to reproduce these effects can lead to large deviations relative to reference data calculated at the coupled cluster level of theory. Decompositions of interaction energies carried out with the absolutely localized molecular orbital energy decomposition analysis (ALMO-EDA) method demonstrate that permanent and inductive electrostatic energies are accurately reproduced by all classes of XC functionals (from generalized gradient corrected (GGA) to hybrid and range-separated functionals), while significant variance is found for charge transfer energies predicted by different XC functionals. Since GGA and hybrid XC functionals predict the most and least attractive charge transfer energies, respectively, the large variance is likely due to the delocalization error. In this scenario, the hybrid XC functionals are then expected to provide the most accurate charge transfer energies. The sum of Pauli repulsion and dispersion energies are the most varied among the XC functionals, but it is found that a correspondence between the interaction energy and the ALMO EDA total frozen energy may be used to determine accurate estimates for these contributions. </p> </div> </div> </div>


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samaneh Pasban ◽  
Heidar Raissi

AbstractHexakis (m-phenylene ethynylene) (m-PE) macrocycles, with aromatic backbones and multiple hydrogen-bonding side chains, had a very high propensity to self-assemble via H-bond and π–π stacking interactions to form nanotubular structures with defined inner pores. Such stacking of rigid macrocycles is leading to novel applications that enable the researchers to explored mass transport in the sub-nanometer scale. Herein, we performed density functional theory (DFT) calculations to examine the drug delivery performance of the hexakis dimer as a novel carrier for doxorubicin (DOX) agent in the chloroform and water solvents. Based on the DFT results, it is found that the adsorption of DOX on the carrier surface is typically physisorption with the adsorption strength values of − 115.14 and − 83.37 kJ/mol in outside and inside complexes, respectively, and so that the essence of the drug remains intact. The negative values of the binding energies for all complexes indicate the stability of the drug molecule inside and outside the carrier's cavities. The energy decomposition analysis (EDA) has also been performed and shown that the dispersion interaction has an essential role in stabilizing the drug-hexakis dimer complexes. To further explore the electronic properties of dox, the partial density of states (PDOS and TDOS) are calculated. The atom in molecules (AIM) and Becke surface (BS) methods are also analyzed to provide an inside view of the nature and strength of the H-bonding interactions in complexes. The obtained results indicate that in all studied complexes, H-bond formation is the driving force in the stabilization of these structures, and also chloroform solvent is more favorable than the water solution. Overall, our findings offer insightful information on the efficient utilization of hexakis dimer as drug delivery systems to deliver anti-cancer drugs.


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