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Deoxygenation of Epoxides with Carbon Monoxide.


ABSTRACT: The use of carbon monoxide as a direct reducing agent for the deoxygenation of terminal and internal epoxides to the respective olefins is presented. This reaction is homogeneously catalyzed by a carbonyl pincer-iridium(I) complex in combination with a Lewis acid co-catalyst to achieve a pre-activation of the epoxide substrate, as well as the elimination of CO2 from a ?-2-iridabutyrolactone intermediate. Especially terminal alkyl epoxides react smoothly and without significant isomerization to the internal olefins under CO atmosphere in benzene or toluene at 80-120?°C. Detailed investigations reveal a substrate-dependent change in the mechanism for the epoxide C-O bond activation between an oxidative addition under retention of the configuration and an SN 2 reaction that leads to an inversion of the configuration.

SUBMITTER: Maulbetsch T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7496459 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Deoxygenation of Epoxides with Carbon Monoxide.

Maulbetsch Theo T   Jürgens Eva E   Kunz Doris D  

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20200723 46


The use of carbon monoxide as a direct reducing agent for the deoxygenation of terminal and internal epoxides to the respective olefins is presented. This reaction is homogeneously catalyzed by a carbonyl pincer-iridium(I) complex in combination with a Lewis acid co-catalyst to achieve a pre-activation of the epoxide substrate, as well as the elimination of CO<sub>2</sub> from a γ-2-iridabutyrolactone intermediate. Especially terminal alkyl epoxides react smoothly and without significant isomeri  ...[more]

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