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Phosphine-NHC Manganese Hydrogenation Catalyst Exhibiting a Non-Classical Metal-Ligand Cooperative H2 Activation Mode.

Ruqaya BuhaibehOleg A FilippovAntoine Bruneau-VoisineJérémy WillotCarine DuhayonDmitry A ValyaevNoël LuganYves CanacJean-Baptiste Sortais
Published in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2019)
Deprotonation of the MnI NHC-phosphine complex fac-[MnBr(CO)3 (κ2 P,C-Ph2 PCH2 NHC)] (2) under a H2 atmosphere readily gives the hydride fac-[MnH(CO)3 (κ2 P,C-Ph2 PCH2 NHC)] (3) via the intermediacy of the highly reactive 18-e NHC-phosphinomethanide complex fac-[Mn(CO)3 (κ3 P,C,C-Ph2 PCHNHC)] (6 a). DFT calculations revealed that the preferred reaction mechanism involves the unsaturated 16-e mangana-substituted phosphonium ylide complex fac-[Mn(CO)3 (κ2 P,C-Ph2 P=CHNHC)] (6 b) as key intermediate able to activate H2 via a non-classical mode of metal-ligand cooperation implying a formal λ5 -P-λ3 -P phosphorus valence change. Complex 2 is shown to be one of the most efficient pre-catalysts for ketone hydrogenation in the MnI series reported to date (TON up to 6200).
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