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Arras J, Calderón-Díaz A, Lebedkin S, Gozem S, McMillen CD, Bhuvanesh N, Stollenz M. Twisted and Disconnected Chains: Flexible Linear Tetracuprous Arrays and a Decanuclear Cu I Cluster as Blue- and Green/Yellow-Light Emitters. Inorg Chem 2024; 63:12943-12957. [PMID: 38935842 PMCID: PMC11256752 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c01646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2024] [Revised: 05/31/2024] [Accepted: 06/05/2024] [Indexed: 06/29/2024]
Abstract
Defined arrays of transition metal ions embedded in tailored polydentate ligand scaffolds allow for a systematic design of their physical properties. Such molecular strings of closed-shell transition metal centers are particularly interesting for Group 11 metal ions in the oxidation state +1 if they undergo metallophilic d10···d10 contact interactions since these clusters are oftentimes efficient photoluminescence (PL) emitters. Copper is particularly attractive as a sustainable earth-abundant coinage metal source and because of the ability of several CuI complexes to serve as powerful thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters in molecular/organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs). Our combined synthetic, crystallographic, photophysical, and computational study describes a straight tetracuprous array possessing a centrally disconnected CuI2···CuI2 chain and a continuous helically bent CuI4 complex. This molecular helix undergoes a facile rearrangement in diethyl ether solution, yielding an unprecedented nanosized CuI10 cluster (2.9 × 2.0 nm) upon crystallization. All three clusters show either bright blue phosphorescence, TADF, or green/yellow multiband phosphorescence with quantum yields between 6.5 and 67%, which is persistent under hydrostatic pressure up to 30 kbar. Temperature-dependent PL investigations in combination with time-dependent density-functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations and void space analyses of the crystal packings complement a comprehensive correlation between the molecular structures and photoluminescence properties.
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- Janet Arras
- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kennesaw
State University, 370 Paulding Avenue NW, MD # 1203, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kennesaw
State University, 370 Paulding Avenue NW, MD # 1203, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144, United States
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- Institute
of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT), Herrmann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry, Georgia State University, 145 Piedmont Ave SE, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Clemson University, 379 Hunter Laboratories, Clemson, South Carolina 29634-0973, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 580 Ross Street, P.O. Box 30012, College Station, Texas 77842-3012, United
States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kennesaw
State University, 370 Paulding Avenue NW, MD # 1203, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144, United States
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Mandal M, Buss JA, Chen SJ, Cramer CJ, Stahl SS. Mechanistic insights into radical formation and functionalization in copper/ N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide radical-relay reactions. Chem Sci 2024; 15:1364-1373. [PMID: 38274066 PMCID: PMC10806759 DOI: 10.1039/d3sc03597b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/09/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024] Open
Abstract
Copper-catalysed radical-relay reactions that employ N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide (NFSI) as the oxidant have emerged as highly effective methods for C(sp3)-H functionalization. Herein, computational studies are paired with experimental data to investigate a series of key mechanistic features of these reactions, with a focus on issues related to site-selectivity, enantioselectivity, and C-H substrate scope. (1) The full reaction energetics of enantioselective benzylic C-H cyanation are probed, and an adduct between Cu and the N-sulfonimidyl radical (˙NSI) is implicated as the species that promotes hydrogen-atom transfer (HAT) from the C-H substrate. (2) Benzylic versus 3° C-H site-selectivity is compared with different HAT reagents: Cu/˙NSI, ˙OtBu, and Cl˙, and the data provide insights into the high selectivity for benzylic C-H bonds in Cu/NFSI-catalyzed C-H functionalization reactions. (3) The energetics of three radical functionalization pathways are compared, including radical-polar crossover (RPC) to generate a carbocation intermediate, reductive elimination from a formal CuIII organometallic complex, and radical addition to a Cu-bound ligand. The preferred mechanism is shown to depend on the ligands bound to copper. (4) Finally, the energetics of three different pathways that convert benzylic C-H bonds into benzylic cations are compared, including HAT/ET (ET = electron transfer), relevant to the RPC mechanism with Cu/NFSI; hydride transfer, involved in reactions with high-potential quinones; and sequential ET/PT/ET (PT = proton transfer), involved in catalytic photoredox reactions. Collectively, the results provide mechanistic insights that establish a foundation for further advances in radical-relay C-H functionalization reactions.
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- Mukunda Mandal
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota 207 Pleasant Street SE Minneapolis MN 55455 USA
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Ackermannweg 10 55128 Mainz Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1101 University Avenue Madison WI 53706 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1101 University Avenue Madison WI 53706 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota 207 Pleasant Street SE Minneapolis MN 55455 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1101 University Avenue Madison WI 53706 USA
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Capurso M, Radivoy G, Nador F, Dorn V. Hydrothiolation of alkynes with thiol-catechol derivatives catalysed by CuNPs/TiO 2: exploring the reaction mechanism by DFT calculations. RSC Adv 2023; 13:8025-8033. [PMID: 36909748 PMCID: PMC9999702 DOI: 10.1039/d3ra00169e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were applied to describe the hydrothiolation reaction of activated alkynes with thiols bearing a catechol group. The thiol-yne click (TYC) process was efficiently catalysed by a CuNPs/TiO2 nanocatalyst giving the corresponding anti-Markovnikov vinyl sulphides with high Z-stereoselectivity. Based on the experimental results and DFT studies, a plausible reaction mechanism is proposed, which implies the activation of the carbon-carbon triple bond by coordination to the copper centre, followed by a stereoselective (external) nucleophilic attack to give preferentially the Z-vinyl sulphide isomer. Additionally, experimental and theoretical studies strongly correlate with the proposed synergistic role for the TiO2 support in the catalytic process.
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- Matías Capurso
- Instituto de Química del Sur (INQUISUR-CONICET), Depto. de Química, Universidad Nacional del Sur Av. Alem 1253 B8000CPB Bahía Blanca Argentina
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- Instituto de Química del Sur (INQUISUR-CONICET), Depto. de Química, Universidad Nacional del Sur Av. Alem 1253 B8000CPB Bahía Blanca Argentina
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- Instituto de Química del Sur (INQUISUR-CONICET), Depto. de Química, Universidad Nacional del Sur Av. Alem 1253 B8000CPB Bahía Blanca Argentina
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- Instituto de Química del Sur (INQUISUR-CONICET), Depto. de Química, Universidad Nacional del Sur Av. Alem 1253 B8000CPB Bahía Blanca Argentina
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McKee ML. Exploring the Reaction Mechanism of C-H Oxidation by Copper-Salen Complexes. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:4969-4980. [PMID: 35861503 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c03344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
The mechanism of C-H oxidation of propylene (C3H6) and 1-phenyl-1-pentyne (C3H7-C≡C-Ph) by HOOR (R═Me, tBu) and 3O2 by a copper-salen complex was explored by computations. The most noteworthy step is the complexation of two Cu salens to the peroxide to form either the LCuOH/LCuOR pair or an OH-bridged complex LCu(μ-OH)CuL plus OR. The latter pathway involves an avoided crossing of two triplet electronic states. The LCuOH complex can abstract a hydrogen atom from C3H6 and the C3H5 radical plus 3O2 forms the complex LCuOOC3H5. Migration of a hydrogen to the proximal oxygen atom reforms LCuOH and acrolein HC(O)CH═CH2.
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- Michael L McKee
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama36849, United States
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Bhattacharjee S, Isegawa M, Garcia-Ratés M, Neese F, Pantazis DA. Ionization Energies and Redox Potentials of Hydrated Transition Metal Ions: Evaluation of Domain-Based Local Pair Natural Orbital Coupled Cluster Approaches. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:1619-1632. [PMID: 35191695 PMCID: PMC8908766 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c01267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Hydrated transition
metal ions are prototypical systems that can
be used to model properties of transition metals in complex chemical
environments. These seemingly simple systems present challenges for
computational chemistry and are thus crucial in evaluations of quantum
chemical methods for spin-state and redox energetics. In this work,
we explore the applicability of the domain-based pair natural orbital
implementation of coupled cluster (DLPNO-CC) theory to the calculation
of ionization energies and redox potentials for hydrated ions of all
first transition row (3d) metals in the 2+/3+ oxidation states, in
connection with various solvation approaches. In terms of model definition,
we investigate the construction of a minimally explicitly hydrated
quantum cluster with a first and second hydration layer. We report
on the convergence with respect to the coupled cluster expansion and
the PNO space, as well as on the role of perturbative triple excitations.
A recent implementation of the conductor-like polarizable continuum
model (CPCM) for the DLPNO-CC approach is employed to determine self-consistent
redox potentials at the coupled cluster level. Our results establish
conditions for the convergence of DLPNO-CCSD(T) energetics and stress
the absolute necessity to explicitly consider the second solvation
sphere even when CPCM is used. The achievable accuracy for redox potentials
of a practical DLPNO-based approach is, on average, 0.13 V. Furthermore,
multilayer approaches that combine a higher-level DLPNO-CCSD(T) description
of the first solvation sphere with a lower-level description of the
second solvation layer are investigated. The present work establishes
optimal and transferable methodological choices for employing DLPNO-based
coupled cluster theory, the associated CPCM implementation, and cost-efficient
multilayer derivatives of the approach for open-shell transition metal
systems in complex environments.
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- Sinjini Bhattacharjee
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER), Kyushu University, 744 Moto-oka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Lu X, Ahsaine HA, Dereli B, Garcia-Esparza AT, Reinhard M, Shinagawa T, Li D, Adil K, Tchalala MR, Kroll T, Eddaoudi M, Sokaras D, Cavallo L, Takanabe K. Operando Elucidation on the Working State of Immobilized Fluorinated Iron Porphyrin for Selective Aqueous Electroreduction of CO 2 to CO. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c01157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Xiaofei Lu
- Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC) and Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 4700 KAUST, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC) and Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 4700 KAUST, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Functional Materials Design, Discovery and Development Research Group (FMD3), Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Center (AMPMC), Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Functional Materials Design, Discovery and Development Research Group (FMD3), Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Center (AMPMC), Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Functional Materials Design, Discovery and Development Research Group (FMD3), Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Center (AMPMC), Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC) and Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 4700 KAUST, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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Sun C, Yang L, Ortuño MA, Wright AM, Chen T, Head AR, López N, Dincă M. Spectroscopic Evidence of Hyponitrite Radical Intermediate in NO Disproportionation at a MOF-Supported Mononuclear Copper Site. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:7845-7850. [PMID: 33645907 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202015359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Dianionic hyponitrite (N2 O2 2- ) is often proposed, based on model complexes, as the key intermediate in reductive coupling of nitric oxide to nitrous oxide at the bimetallic active sites of heme-copper oxidases and nitric oxide reductases. In this work, we examine the gas-solid reaction of nitric oxide with the metal-organic framework CuI -ZrTpmC* with a suite of in situ spectroscopies and density functional theory simulations, and identify an unusual chelating N2 O2 .- intermediate. These results highlight the advantage provided by site-isolation in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for studying important reaction intermediates, and provide a mechanistic scenario compatible with the proposed one-electron couple in these enzymes.
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- Chenyue Sun
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Av. Països Catalans 16, 43007, Tarragona, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Av. Països Catalans 16, 43007, Tarragona, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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Sun C, Yang L, Ortuño MA, Wright AM, Chen T, Head AR, López N, Dincă M. Spectroscopic Evidence of Hyponitrite Radical Intermediate in NO Disproportionation at a MOF‐Supported Mononuclear Copper Site. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202015359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Chenyue Sun
- Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology Av. Països Catalans 16 43007 Tarragona Spain
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- Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton NY 11973 USA
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology Av. Països Catalans 16 43007 Tarragona Spain
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- Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA
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Divalent cobalt and copper coordination complexes of κ2-N, O-derivatives of (Z)-1-R-2-(2′-oxazolin-2′-yl)-eth-1-en-1-ates: Structure and reactivity patterns. Inorganica Chim Acta 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2020.119959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Álvarez M, Molina F, Fructos MR, Urbano J, Álvarez E, Sodupe M, Lledós A, Pérez PJ. Aerobic intramolecular carbon-hydrogen bond oxidation promoted by Cu(I) complexes. Dalton Trans 2020; 49:14647-14655. [PMID: 33057511 DOI: 10.1039/d0dt03198d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
Abstract
The oxidation of C-H bonds by copper centres in enzymes with molecular oxygen takes place in nature under ambient conditions. Herein we report a similar transformation in which under ambient pressure and temperature (1 atm, 25 °C) the complex TpMsCu(THF) (TpMs = hydrotris(3-mesityl-pyrazol-1-yl)borate) undergoes the intramolecular oxidation of an alkylic C-H bond with O2, leading to the formation of a trinuclear compound where alkoxy and hydroxyl ligands are bonded to the copper centres, as inferred from X-ray studies. The presence of adventitious Cu(0) derived from the partial decomposition of initial TpMsCu(THF) facilitates the formation of such a trinuclear compound. DFT studies support the reaction taking place through a Cu(iii) alkoxy-hydroxyl copper intermediate.
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- María Álvarez
- Laboratorio de Catálisis Homogénea, Unidad Asociada al CSIC CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Química, Universidad de Huelva, 21007-Huelva, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Catálisis Homogénea, Unidad Asociada al CSIC CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Química, Universidad de Huelva, 21007-Huelva, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Catálisis Homogénea, Unidad Asociada al CSIC CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Química, Universidad de Huelva, 21007-Huelva, Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad de Huelva, 21007-Huelva, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas, Centro de Investigaciones Isla de la Cartuja, Avda Américo Vespucio 49, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
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- Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Laboratorio de Catálisis Homogénea, Unidad Asociada al CSIC CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Química, Universidad de Huelva, 21007-Huelva, Spain
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Vogiatzis KD, Polynski MV, Kirkland JK, Townsend J, Hashemi A, Liu C, Pidko EA. Computational Approach to Molecular Catalysis by 3d Transition Metals: Challenges and Opportunities. Chem Rev 2019; 119:2453-2523. [PMID: 30376310 PMCID: PMC6396130 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 44.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
Computational chemistry provides a versatile toolbox for studying mechanistic details of catalytic reactions and holds promise to deliver practical strategies to enable the rational in silico catalyst design. The versatile reactivity and nontrivial electronic structure effects, common for systems based on 3d transition metals, introduce additional complexity that may represent a particular challenge to the standard computational strategies. In this review, we discuss the challenges and capabilities of modern electronic structure methods for studying the reaction mechanisms promoted by 3d transition metal molecular catalysts. Particular focus will be placed on the ways of addressing the multiconfigurational problem in electronic structure calculations and the role of expert bias in the practical utilization of the available methods. The development of density functionals designed to address transition metals is also discussed. Special emphasis is placed on the methods that account for solvation effects and the multicomponent nature of practical catalytic systems. This is followed by an overview of recent computational studies addressing the mechanistic complexity of catalytic processes by molecular catalysts based on 3d metals. Cases that involve noninnocent ligands, multicomponent reaction systems, metal-ligand and metal-metal cooperativity, as well as modeling complex catalytic systems such as metal-organic frameworks are presented. Conventionally, computational studies on catalytic mechanisms are heavily dependent on the chemical intuition and expert input of the researcher. Recent developments in advanced automated methods for reaction path analysis hold promise for eliminating such human-bias from computational catalysis studies. A brief overview of these approaches is presented in the final section of the review. The paper is closed with general concluding remarks.
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Inorganic
Systems Engineering group, Department of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Inorganic
Systems Engineering group, Department of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- TheoMAT
group, ITMO University, Lomonosova 9, St. Petersburg 191002, Russia
- Inorganic
Systems Engineering group, Department of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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