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Enantioselective hydrosilylation of unsaturated carbon–heteroatom bonds (C[double bond, length as m-dash]N, C[double bond, length as m-dash]O) catalyzed by [Ru–S] complexes: a theoretical study

Abstract

A detailed theoretical study on the mechanism of enanthioselective hydrosilylation of imines and ketones catalyzed by the ruthenium(II) thiolate catalyst [Ru–S] ([L*-Ru(SDmp)]+[BAr4F]) with a chiral monodentate phosphine ligand is carried out in this work. We elucidate all the pathways leading to the main products or by products mediated by the [Ru–S] complex in order to have deep understanding of the chemoselectivity and enantioselectivity. The DFT (Density Functional Theory) calculations show that the reaction mechanism including: (1) Si–H bond cleavage by the dual activity of Ru–S bond; (2) the generation of a sulfur-stabilized silane cation; (3) the electrophilic attack of silane cation to N[double bond, length as m-dash]C/O[double bond, length as m-dash]C; (4) hydrogen transfer from Ru to carbon cation. The hydrosilylation products are found to be the final products rather than the dehydrogenative ones, which is consistent with the experimental results. The dehydrogenative silylation reaction pathways which give N- or O-silylated enamine/enol ether are reversible according to our calculations. The computational results also show that the electrophilic attack of silicon to N[double bond, length as m-dash]C/O[double bond, length as m-dash]C is the rate-determining step and the ee value can be improved significantly with more bulky model phosphine ligand based on the same calculation methods.

Graphical abstract: Enantioselective hydrosilylation of unsaturated carbon–heteroatom bonds (C [[double bond, length as m-dash]] N, C [[double bond, length as m-dash]] O) catalyzed by [Ru–S] complexes: a theoretical study

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 Dec 2019
Accepted
14 Feb 2020
First published
04 Mar 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2020,10, 9431-9437

Enantioselective hydrosilylation of unsaturated carbon–heteroatom bonds (C[double bond, length as m-dash]N, C[double bond, length as m-dash]O) catalyzed by [Ru–S] complexes: a theoretical study

M. Zhou, G. Chen and L. Dang, RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 9431 DOI: 10.1039/C9RA10760F

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