title: Palladacycles of sulfated and selenated Schiff bases of ferrocene-carboxaldehyde as catalysts for O-arylation and Suzuki-Miyaura coupling.
abstract: Schiff base ligands (L1: sulfated and L2: selenated) having a ferrocene core synthesized by reacting ferrocene-carboxaldehyde with 2-(phenylthio/seleno)ethylamine on treatment with Na2PdCl4in the presence of NaOAc give cyclopalladated complexes [Pd(L1/L2-H)Cl] (1/2). Complex 1 of a sulfated Schiff base L1, on reacting with one equivalent of triphenylphosphine gives complex [Pd(L1-H)PPh3Cl] (3), formed due to cleavage of a Pd-S bond. With 2 such a reaction does not occur, as a Pd-Se bond being stronger than that of its sulfur analogue does not get cleaved. L1, L2 and their complexes 1-3 were authenticated with HR-MS,1H,13C{1H} and77Se{1H} NMR spectroscopy. The single crystal structures of 1-3 were determined with X-ray diffraction. Palladium in all three complexes has nearly a square planar geometry. The Pd-S, Pd-Se and Pd-P bond distances are 2.4249(12), 2.5058(14) and 2.2445(17) Å respectively. The catalytic activity of complexes 1-3 was explored for O-arylation of phenol and Suzuki-Miyaura coupling (SMC) of phenylboronic acid with aryl bromides and chlorides. The optimum reaction time for SMC of ArBr is 3 h whereas for ArCl it is 6 h. The TON values of O-arylation catalyzed with complexes 1-3 are up to ∼170 (TOF, 28 h-1) and SMC ∼9300 (TOF, 3100 h-1) for the reaction time of the order of 3 and 6 h respectively. The catalytic process is somewhat more efficient with 2 (Pd bonded with a selenoether group), than 3, followed by 1.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India. aksingh@chemistry.iitd.ac.in ajai57@hotmail.com.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India. aksingh@chemistry.iitd.ac.in ajai57@hotmail.com.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India. aksingh@chemistry.iitd.ac.in ajai57@hotmail.com.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India. aksingh@chemistry.iitd.ac.in ajai57@hotmail.com.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India. aksingh@chemistry.iitd.ac.in ajai57@hotmail.com.
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