Cu complexes

LF ion attachment MS was apphed to detect [Cu(hfac)(tmvs)], a thermally labile precursor used in copper chemical vapor deposition (Cu-CVD), with the intent of developing improved methods for mass-spectrometric analysis of the CVD proeess [129-131]. A laboratory-built direct introduction system of the sample provided the molecular ion of Cu(hfac)(tmvs) as the LF ion adduct for the first time. 

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Alkyl- and aryl-pyridazines can be prepared by cross-coupling reactions between chloropyridazines and Grignard reagents in the presence of nickel-phosphine complexes as catalysts. Dichloro[l,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)propane]nickel is used for alkylation and dichloro[l,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane]nickel for arylation (78CPB2550). 3-Alkynyl-pyridazines and their A-oxides are prepared from 3-chloropyridazines and their A-oxides and alkynes using a Pd(PPh3)Cl2-Cu complex and triethylamine (78H(9)1397). 

For the first time the sensitization of Tb luminescence by Cu ions has been detected in solution of Tb-Cu complex with l,5-bis(2-hydrazino-carbophenoxy)-3-oxapentane (L). 

NucleosilChiral-I L-hydroxyproline Cu- complexes bonded on silica gel [33] Macherey-Nagel... 

These N,N-chelating hgands were then covalently grafted on a modified Y-zeolite containing supermicropores . The selectivities observed were low (up to 11% ee) but led to similar values when comparing the imsupported and zeolite-supported Cu complexes. Interestingly, however, the zeolite catalysts could be recovered and reused several times with no loss of activity. 

The hydrothiolation of electron-deficient alkenes [X = CN, C(=0)(0Me)] and p-nitro-styrene was catalysed by the Cu complexes 98 and 99. The reactions with phenyl- or benzyl-thiol proceed with high conversions (>90%, rt, 5 mol%). 

A NHC-Cu complex 9 has also been used in the cyclopropanation of 5 and cyclooctene 8 using EDA 6 (Scheme 5.3) [5]. Complex 9 was isolated prior to use and, as in the case of NHC-Ru complex, the cyclopropanation reaction did not display high diastereoselectivity. However, products 7 and 10 were obtained in good to excellent yields depending on the ratio between the alkenes and EDA. Improved yields were obtained when alkenes were used in six- or ten-fold excess. 

Normally, copper-catalysed Huisgen cycloadditions work with terminal alkynes only. The formation of a Cu-acetylide complex is considered to be the starting point of the catalyst cycle. However, the NHC-Cu complex 18 was able to catalyse the [3-1-2] cycloaddition of azides 17 and 3-hexyne 23 (Scheme 5.6). 

Scheme 5.38 Aziridination of aliphatic alkenes catalysed by a NHC-Cu complex...

CU4S4] species in which the TADDOL-derived ligand was an unexpected sul-fur-monodentate and not a S/X-bidentate ligand. This hypothesis was confirmed by NOE NMR spectroscopy that suggested a different structure for the Cu complex of the alcohol ligand relative to the methylether and the dimethylamino ligands, which could explain the observed stereochemical inversion. 

The domino process can be catalyzed by a Cu-complex with (S.S)-tBu-bis(oxazo-line) to give 2-616 with excellent enantioselectivity (97-98% ee) [320b,c]. The use of 5 A molecular sieves turned out to be obligatory. Wada and coworkers also reported on a related transetherification/l,3-dipolar cycloaddition procedure to give access to trans-fused bicyclic y-lactones [321]. 

Two mechanisms are possible for the Cu-mediated aziridination using PhI=NTs as a nitrogen source (i) aziridination via Cu-nitrenoid species (L Cu=NTs) and (ii) aziridination via a L (Cu—PhI=NTs) adduct, in which the Cu complex functions as a Lewis acid catalyst. Jacobsen et al. demonstrated that the enantioselectivity of the aziridination using (48) as the chiral auxiliary did not depend on the nitrogen precursors.1 5 This supports the intermediacy of the Cu-nitrenoid... 

Recently, Scott et al. have reported that a Cu complex bearing an axially chiral ligand (49) is an excellent catalyst for aziridination of 2,2-dimethylchromene and cinnamate esters (Scheme 36), though it is also less efficient for the reactions of simple olefins.157,158 On the basis of DFT investigation of the nitrenoid intermediate (50), one of the oxygen atoms of the A -sulfonyl group has been proposed to be interacting with the nitrene N-atom.158... 

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