Iridium complexes ligands

In the rhodium and iridium complexes, the C-coordination, carbene function, and cyclometallated cases prevail. Benzothiazole-2-thione was studied extensively as a ligand and various situations of the exocyclic S-monodentate coordination as well as N,S-combinations in the di-, tri-, and tetranuclear species were discovered. 

A wide range of iridium complexes are formed in the -1-3 oxidation state, the most important for iridium, with a variety of ligands. The vast majority have octahedral coordination of iridium. 

In 2004, Bolm et al. reported the use of chiral iridium complexes with chelating phosphinyl-imidazolylidene ligands in asymmetric hydrogenation of functionalized and simple alkenes with up to 89% ee [17]. These complexes were synthesized from the planar chiral [2.2]paracyclophane-based imida-zolium salts 74a-c with an imidazolylidenyl and a diphenylphosphino substituent in pseudo ortho positions of the [2.2]paracyclophane (Scheme 48). Treatment of 74a-c with t-BuOLi or t-BuOK in THF and subsequent reaction of the in situ formed carbenes with [Ir(cod)Cl]2 followed by anion exchange with NaBARF afforded complexes (Rp)-75a-c in 54-91% yield. The chela-... 

In 1998, Ruiz et al. reported the synthesis of new chiral dithioether ligands based on a pyrrolidine backbone from (+ )-L-tartaric acid. Their corresponding cationic iridium complexes were further evaluated as catalysts for the asymmetric hydrogenation of prochiral dehydroamino acid derivatives and itaconic acid, providing enantioselectivities of up to 68% ee, as shown in Scheme 8.18. 

Scheme 8.18 Hydrogenations of olefins with iridium complexes containing dithio-ether ligands with a pyrrolidine backbone.

Scheme 8.22 Hydrogenation of acetamidoacrylic acid with iridium complexes containing dithioether ligands.

In addition, Peruzzini et al. developed, in 2007, iridium complexes of planar-chiral ferrocenyl phosphine-thioether ligands that were tested in the hydrogenation of simple alkyl aryl ketones.These complexes were diastereoselec-tively generated in high yields (85-90%) by addition of the corresponding... 

In 1963 Vaska 164) discovered that the iridium complex Ir(PPh3)2C (CO) takes up molecular oxygen reversibly with 1 1 stoichiometry. This complex has since been shown to reversibly sorb (1 1) ethylene (755), carbon dioxide (765), F2C=CF2 and F3C—C=C—CF3 (767), as well as various other ligands (765). Ibers md La Placa (769)... 

The coordination chemistry of iridium has continued to flourish since 1985/86. All common donor atoms can be found bound to at least one oxidation state of iridium. The most common oxidation states exhibited by iridium complexes are I and III, although examples of all oxidation states from —I to VI have been synthesized and characterized. Low-oxidation-state iridium species usually contain CO ligands or P donor atoms, whereas high-oxidation-number-containing coordination compounds are predominantly hexahalide ones. 

To our knowledge, the first published report of a photocatal-ytic reaction at elevated pressure was W. Strohmeyer1s hydrogenation of 1,3-cyclohexadiene under hydrogen at 10 atm /22/. On photolysis, the iridium complex 8 formed a very active catalyst, probably by dissociation of a phosphine ligand (Equation 17). At 70 C, with hydrogen at 10 atm, and a catalyst/substrate ratio of 1/100,000, the activity was 196 per minute and the turnover number was 96,000 mol of product/mol catalyst. 

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