Hydrogen bonding iridium complex

Eisenberg reported product inhibition in the hydrogenation of acetone with a cationic iridium complex [42]. Apparently, the bond between iridium and isopropanol is too strong on account of the cationic nature of the complex (Scheme 44.7). 

Burger. P. and Bergman, R.G. (1993) Facile intermolecular activation of carbon-hydrogen bonds in methane and other hydrocarbons and silicon-hydrogen bonds in silanes with the iridium(III) complex Cp (PMe3)Ir (CH3)(OTf). J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115 (22). 10462-10463. 

Alaimo, P.J.. Arndtsen, B.A. and Bergman. R.G. (2000) Alkylation of iridium via tandem carbon-hydrogen bond activation/decarbonylation of aldehydes. Access to complexes with tertiary and highly hindered metal-carbon bonds. OrganometaUics, 19 (11), 2130-2143. 

Arylation, olefins, 187, 190 Arylketimines, iridium hydrogenation, 83 Arylpropanoic acid, Grignard coupling, 190 Aspartame, 8, 27 Asymmetric catalysis characteristics, 11 chiral metal complexes, 122 covalently bound intermediates, 323 electrochemistry, 342 hydrogen-bonded associates, 328 industrial applications, 8, 357 optically active compounds, 2 phase-transfer reactions, 333 photochemistry, 341 polymerization, 174, 332 purely organic compounds, 323 see also specific complexes Asymmetric induction, 71, 155 Attractive interaction, 196, 216 Autoinduction, 330 Axial chirality, 18 Aza-Diels-Alder reaction, 220 Azetidinone, 44, 80 Aziridination, olefins, 207... 

The activation parameters for the ethylenediamine complexes of rhodium(III) and iridium(III) are also in keeping with an essentially dissociative mechanism. The observation that AHt(k-t) is larger than AHt(k 2) for iridium(III) has been rationalized in terms of stabilization of the aquahydroxo species by intramolecular hydrogen bond formation. Similarly, the observation for the rhodium(III) system that AHl(k ) < AHt(k-2) for ammonia, whereas A// (, ) AHt(k 2) for ethylenediamine may, in part, by rationalized in terms of the observed differences in the degree of intramolecular hydrogen bond stabilization of the aqua hydroxo species in the two systems [ZCH(en) > J h(NH3) see Table XXI]. 

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