Abstract
The mechanism of an aromatic C-H coupling reaction between heteroarenes and arylboronic acids using a Pd catalyst was theoretically and experimentally investigated. We identified the C-B transmetalation as the rate-determining step. The (S)-catalyst-reactant complex was found to be stabilized by hyperconjugation between π-orbitals on the tolyl group and the S-O σ* antibonding orbital in the catalyst ligand. Our findings suggest routes for the design of new, improved Pd catalysts with higher stereoselectivity.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4900-4906 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Organic Chemistry |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| State | Published - May 5 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
The authors thank Prof. Odile Eisenstein for helpful discussions and the Research Center for Computational Science, Okazaki, Japan, for providing computational resources. Y.N. was supported by a Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science for Young Scientists (DC1). Y.N. and H.K. thank IGER Program in Green Natural Sciences, Nagoya University for a fellowship. S.I. acknowledges partial support by a CREST grant from JST.