Effect of ligand steric properties and halide identity on the mechanism for oxidative addition of haloarenes to trialkylphosphine Pd(0) complexes.

ABSTRACT: The oxidative addition of PhX (X = I, Br, Cl) to the complexes Pd(P(t)Bu(3))(2) (1), Pd(1-AdP(t)Bu(2))(2) (2), Pd(CyP(t)Bu(2))(2) (3), and Pd(PCy(3))(2) (4) (1-Ad = 1-adamantyl, Cy = cyclohexyl) was studied to determine the effect of steric properties on the coordination number of the species that undergoes oxidative addition and to determine whether the type of halide affects the identity of this species. The kinetic data imply that the number of phosphines coordinated to the complex that reacts in the irreversible step of the oxidative addition process for complexes 1-4 depends more on the halide than on the steric properties of the ligands. The rate-limiting step of the oxidative addition of PhI occurred with L(2)Pd(0) in all cases, as determined by the lack of dependence of k(obs) on [

SUBMITTER: Barrios-Landeros F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2885888 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature