title: Variable-temperature NMR studies of soluble polymer-supported phosphine-silver complexes.
abstract: The use of polymers as supports for organometallic catalysts has received wide attention. However, catalyst reactivity is sometimes altered as a consequence of catalyst immobilization by a polymeric ligand and such altered reactivity can complicate such supported catalysts' use. The results in this study show that heptane phase selectively soluble polyisobutylene (PIB)-bound phosphine ligands have essentially identical kinetic behavior when compared to electronically similar isobutyldiphenylphosphine analogues in phosphine coordination and exchange in silver(I) halide complexes. These studies used variable-temperature (31)P NMR spectroscopy to probe the silver-phosphine exchange processes for both AgI and AgCl complexes of these polymeric and low molecular weight phosphine ligands. The results show that the dynamic behavior of the PIB- and isobutyldiphenylphosphine-AgX complexes is nearly identical based on line-shape analysis of these (31)P NMR spectra as a function of temperature. Similar studies of more polar poly(ethylene glycol)triarylphosphine-bound AgX complexes and electronically analogous low molecular weight AgX complexes have similar behavior in variable-temperature (31)P NMR spectroscopy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, P.O. Box 30012, College Station, Texas 77842-3012, USA. bergbreiter@tamu.edu
authors.forename: David E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Bergbreiter
authors.forename: Yun-Chin
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Yang