Hydroxo ligand

Iron(II) complex of tris(N -tert-butylurea-ylato)-N-ethylene]aminato activates dioxygen at room temperature to afford an iron(III) complex containing a single terminal oxo ligand. X-ray structures show that the three urea molecules act as a tridentate N,N,N-hgand [52]. The tripodal ligand was also used to synthesise complexes of cobalt, iron or zinc with terminal hydroxo ligands (Scheme 8) [53]. 

Figure 2.18 Complexes with terminal hydroxo ligands.

The condensation reactions occur only through the mediation of sylanol groups generated by hydrolysis. There are two main opportunities. The condensation can be carried out by oxolation or olation mechanisms. The oxolation occurs with the participation of two sylonol groups. In the course of the reaction a hydroxo ligand is exchanged for an oxo one [8] ... 

It is not known if the proposed 9 complex observed in nonaqueous solvents, is formed in water. An alternative formulation would have the hydroxo ligand still coordinated to iron and this hypothetical species 10 could also be deprotonated to give a ra zs-dioxo species. In fact, our mechanistic theory for the pH dependent rate of interaction Fem-TAML complexes with H202 is... 

TABLE 13.1. Partial charge of the hydroxo ligand and metallic center for different metallic precursors. 

Aldol reactions of silyl enolates are promoted by a catalytic amount of transition metals through transmetallation generating transition metal enolates. In 1995, Shibasaki and Sodeoka reported an enantioselective aldol reaction of enol silyl ethers to aldehydes using a Pd-BINAP complex in wet DMF. Later, this finding was extended to a catalytic enantioselective Mannich-type reaction to a-imino esters by Sodeoka s group [Eq. (13.21)]. Detailed mechanistic studies revealed that the binuclear p-hydroxo complex 34 is the active catalyst, and the reaction proceeds through a palladium enolate. The transmetallation step would be facilitated by the hydroxo ligand transfer onto the silicon atom of enol silyl ethers ... 

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