title: Metal-organic cooperative catalysis in C-H and C-C bond activation and its concurrent recovery.
abstract: The development of an efficient catalytic activation (cleavage) system for C-H and C-C bonds is an important challenge in organic synthesis, because these bonds comprise a variety of organic molecules such as natural products, petroleum oils, and polymers on the earth. Among many elegant approaches utilizing transition metals to activate C-H and C-C bonds facilely, chelation-assisted protocols based on the coordinating ability of an organic moiety have attracted great attention, though they have often suffered from the need for an intact coordinating group in a substrate. In this Account, we describe our entire efforts to activate C-H or C-C bonds adjacent to carbonyl groups by employing a new concept of metal-organic cooperative catalysis (MOCC), which enables the temporal installation of a 2-aminopyridyl group into common aldehydes or ketones in a catalytic way. Consequently, a series of new catalytic reactions such as alcohol hydroacylation, oxo-ester synthesis, C-C triple bond cleavage, hydrative dimerization of alkynes, and skeletal rearrangements of cyclic ketones was realized through MOCC. In particular, in the quest for an optimized MOCC system composed of a Wilkinson's catalyst (Ph 3P) 3RhCl and an organic catalyst (2-amino-3-picoline), surprising efficiency enhancements could be achieved when benzoic acid and aniline were introduced as promoters for the aldimine formation process. Furthermore, a notable accomplishment of C-C bond activation has been made using 2-amino-3-picoline as a temporary chelating auxiliary in the reactions of unstrained ketones with various terminal olefins and Wilkinson's catalyst. In the case of seven-membered cyclic ketones, an interesting ring contraction to five- or six-membered ones takes place through skeletal rearrangements initiated by the C-C bond activation of MOCC. On the other hand, the fundamental advances of these catalytic systems into recyclable processes could be achieved by immobilizing both metal and organic components using a hydrogen-bonded self-assembled system as a catalyst support. This catalyst-recovery system provides a homogeneous phase at high temperature during the reaction and a heterogeneous phase at room temperature after the reaction. The product could be separated conveniently from the self-assembly support system by decanting the upper layer. The immobilized catalysts of both 2-aminopyridine and rhodium metal species sustained high catalytic activity for up to the eight catalytic reactions. In conclusion, the successful incorporation of an organocatalytic cycle into a transition metal catalyzed reaction led us to find MOCC for C-H and C-C bond activation. In addition, the hydrogen-bonded self-assembled support has been developed for an efficient and effective recovery system of homogeneous catalysts and could be successful in immobilizing both metal and organic catalysts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Center for Bioactive Molecular Hybrid, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749.
authors.forename: Young Jun
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Jung-Woo
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Chul-Ho
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Jun
mesh_terms: D000447:Aldehydes / Q000737:chemistry; D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D002384:Catalysis; D006859:Hydrogen / Q000737:chemistry*; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000737:chemistry*; D010847:Picolines / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D000447:Aldehydes; D008670:Metals; D009930:Organic Chemicals; D010847:Picolines; D002244:Carbon; D006859:Hydrogen