Solvent responsive catalyst improves NMR sensitivity via efficient magnetisation transfer.

ABSTRACT: A bidentate iridium carbene complex, Ir(κC,O-L1)(COD), has been synthesised which contains a strongly electron donating carbene ligand that is functionalised by a cis-spanning phenolate group. This complex acts as a precursor to effective magnetisation transfer catalysts which form after reaction with H2 and a suitable two electron donor. In solvents such as benzene, containing pyridine, they are exemplified by neutral, chiral Ir(H)2(κC,O-L1)(py)2 with inequivalent hydride ligands and Ir-O bond retention, whilst in methanol, Ir-O bond cleavage leads to zwitterionic [Ir(H)2(κC,O(-)-L1)(py)3](+), with chemically equivalent hydride ligands. The active catalyst's form is therefore solvent dependent. Both these complexes break the magnetic symmetry of the hydride ligands and are active in the c

SUBMITTER: Ruddlesden AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5358499 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature