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Al/P‐ and Ga/P‐Based Frustrated Lewis Pairs and Electronically Unsaturated Substrates: Ring Cleavage and Ring Closure, C−C and C−N Bond Formation
Author(s) -
Pleschka Damian,
Uebing Marten,
Lange Merten,
Hepp Alexander,
Wübker AnnaLena,
Hansen Michael Ryan,
Würthwein ErnstUlrich,
Uhl Werner
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201901659
Subject(s) - chemistry , adduct , steric effects , frustrated lewis pair , stereochemistry , cleavage (geology) , bond cleavage , ring (chemistry) , moiety , enamine , lewis acids and bases , medicinal chemistry , catalysis , organic chemistry , geotechnical engineering , fracture (geology) , engineering
Al/P‐ and Ga/P‐based frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) reacted with an azirine under mild conditions under cleavage of the heterocycle on two different positions. Opening of the C−C bond yielded an unusual nitrile–ylide adduct in which a C−N moiety coordinated to the FLP backbone. Cleavage of a C−N bond afforded the thermodynamically favored enamine adduct with the N atom bound to P and Al or Ga atoms. Ring closure was observed upon treatment of an Al/P FLP with electronically unsaturated substrates (4‐(1‐cyclohexenyl)‐1‐aza‐but‐1‐en‐3‐ynes) and yielded by C−N bond formation hexahydroquinoline derivatives, which coordinated to the FLP through P−C and Al−C bonds. Diphenylcyclopropenone showed a diverse reactivity, which depending on steric shielding and the polarizing effect of Al or Ga atoms afforded different products. An Al t Bu 2 /P FLP yielded an adduct with the C=O group coordinated to P and Al. The dineopentyl derivative gave an equilibrium mixture consisting of a similar product and a simple adduct with O bound to Al and a three‐coordinate P atom. Both compounds co‐crystallize. The Ga/P FLP only formed the simple adduct with the same substrate. Rearrangement resulted in all cases in C 3 ‐ring cleavage and migration of a mesityl group from P to a former ring C atom by C−C bond formation. Diphenylthiocyclopropenone (evidence for the presence of P=C bonds) and an imine derivative afforded similar products.