Chia-Ming Weng

Density Functional Studies on Palladium‐Catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura Cross‐Coupling Reactions Assisted by N‐ or P‐Chelating Ligands

DFT studies with the B3LYP functional have been carried out on the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions of phenyl chloride and phenylboronic acid catalyzed by palladium complexes with N- or P-chelating ligands. The full catalytic cycle, from the addition of reactants to the catalyst to the release of the cross-coupled product from the complexed intermediate, has been examined. The stages within the cycle, such as oxidative addition, transmetalation, and reductive elimination, were validated by linking the mechanistically relevant intermediates and transition states. Various derivatives of diimine, diphosphine, and diamine were considered as potential model ligands. The catalytic reaction employing diimine as the chelating ligand has been verified as the one with the most energetically feasible route.

Density functional studies on diimine chelated palladium complex catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reaction: the impact of Lewis base employed in transmetallation process

The transmetallation processes of disubstituted diimine (RN=CH-CH=NR) chelated palladium complexes catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions of phenyl chloride (PhCl) and phenylboronic acid [B(OH)(2)Ph] in the presence of diverse Lewis bases (OH(-), F(-), O(t)Bu(-), CO(3)(2-) and PO(4)(3-)) were studied by DFT methods with the B3LYP functional. Activation strain model has also been employed to investigate the extent of deformation of the reactants including the catalyst in the transition state. The transmetallation processes for all the cases are exothermic. The energy barriers for the process with multivalent bases are smaller than that of univalent cases, while, the amounts of the released energies are on the opposite course. The high valent oxoanions such as CO(3)(2-) and PO(4)(3-) provide more versatile bonding modes in the processes. The flexibility of diimine either as mono- or bi-dentate ligand in the mechanism provides a valuable channel for lowering the energy barriers of this process. The simplicity and efficiency of this type of ligand make it a potential alternation to the most commonly used phosphine.