New catalytic systems with chemically fixed nickel complexes in the reactions of reductive activation of C-F bonds in ionic liquid media

Abstract

The nickel complexes with bidentate nitrogen-containing ligands covalently bound to alkylimidazolium cations were obtained for the first time. By the example of the reaction of selective hydrodefluorination of hexafluorobenzene to pentafluorobenzene, it was shown that the catalytic systems ionic liquid - water - covalently bound nickel complex based on the obtained compounds are much more efficient with repeated use in comparison with unfixed nickel complexes. The decisive influence of the cationic fragment of the ionic liquid on the possibility of multiple use of nickel complexes has been established.