Abstract
Herein we demonstrate how the inner-sphere coordinating ligands switch the activity of Ru–NHC-based oxidation precatalysts in the oxidative conversion of olefins to carbonyl compounds, with the help of a series of systematically varied imidazolydene-NHC (Im-NHC) and triazolydene-NHC (Tz-NHC)-based ruthenium(II)-complexes. It is shown that the catalytic activity of the para-cymene-containing precatalysts varies in the order of [(Tz-NHC)Ru(para-cymene)Cl]+ > [(Im-NHC)Ru(para-cymene)Cl]+, while the order of activity of the MeCN-containing precatalysts is found to be reversed, i.e., [(Im-NHC)Ru(MeCN)4]2+ > [(Tz-NHC)Ru(MeCN)4]2+. Along with the electronic influence of the NHC ligands, the effect of the lability of the para-cymene and MeCN ligands, and the overall charge of the complexes might be attributed toward such a switching of catalytic activity. This finding led to develop a new precatalyst with improved activity which was further utilized in selective oxidation of a series of styrene substrates containing other oxidation-sensitive functionalities.
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