Ligands noncoordinated

On the other hand, chiral sulfur-containing but noncoordinating ligands such as sulfonamides have been widely used in the asymmetric Michael reaction. In 1997, Sewald et al. reported the use of a series of chiral sulfonamides depicted in Scheme 2.25 in the Cu-catalysed conjugate addition of ZnEt2 to 2-cyclohexenone. Even the use of a stoichiometric amount of catalyst did not allow the enantioselectivity to be higher than 31% ee. 

Ni1 complexes (944)-(950) with various different saturated polyaza macrotricyclic ligands having noncoordinated nitrogen atoms in the ligand framework have been prepared by reduction of the Ni11 complexes with Na/Hg in acetonitrile. The crystal and molecular structures of (948), (946), and (945) were determined.1582,2333 Both complexes were found to have essentially square... 

For halide ligands, a coordination number of four (/u4-X) is rare. Self-assembly of ds metal centers and halides around a pyramidal halide gives tetrapalladium complexes. In this unprecedented case the metallamacrocycle owes its formation to the halide acting as a template.347 The complexes (PPN)[Pd4(Fmes)4] (Fmes = 2,4,6-tris(trisfluoromethyl)phenyl) display fluxional behavior in solution in noncoordinating solvents.347... 

A trinuclear system, whose structure was published,555 was formed in high yield by the cyclometalation of a l,3-bis(alkylbenzimidazol-2-yl)benzene ligand, followed by the trimerization of the unit, which possesses a vacant coordination site on the palladium atom and a pendant noncoordinated benzimidazole moiety. The resulting product forms a cup-shaped trimer or tricorn, presented in Figure 46, that includes a molecule of acetonitrile in the crystal structure.556... 

Bulk electrochemical reduction of the platinum(IV) complex of the tridentate ligand l,l,l-tris(aminomethyl)ethane(tame), [Pt(tame)2]4+, leads to the quantitative formation of [Pt(tame)2]2+ (28), in which one of the amine donor groups in tame remains noncoordinated.141 The X-ray structure of the diprotonated complex [Pt(Htame)2]4+, as its tetrachlorozincate(II) salt, is also reported. 

An unusual pH dependence has been reported for the Gd111 complex of a tetraamide-based ligand with extended noncoordinating phosphonate side chains (Scheme 12).169,170 The relaxivity increases from pH 4 to 6, followed by a decrease until pH 8.5, then from pH 10.5 it increases again. The system, as well as isostructural lanthanide complexes, was characterized by various techniques such as 31P and 170 NMR and fluorescence measurements. The pH dependence could be attributed to protonation equilibria of the noncoordinating phosphonate groups, which can... 

In the presence of benzylamine, which coordinates trans to an active site, and quinine, the noncoordinated chiral component, optical purities up to 80% ee were again attained for hydrogenation of benzil. Convincing evidence was presented for the mechanism outlined in Eqs. (56)-(58), where L is the macrocyclic ligand, Q is quinine, and R = Ph (benzylamine, and charges of the complexes are omitted) ... 

The first hydration step was promoted by Bronsted acids containing weakly or noncoordinating anions. In the second step, an intramolecular hydrogen transfer in the secondary alcohol was catalyzed by ruthenium(III) salts with chelating bipyridyl-type ligands. The possible complexation of the latter with the diene did not inhibit its catalytic activity in the allylic rearrangements, under acid-catalyzed hydration conditions. 

Several authors have conducted investigations of the iV-aryl moiety to optimize interactions for each individual catalyst. All of the catalysts in Table 18 function well at 1 mol% catalyst loading and with ambient to moderate pressures of hydrogen. Noncoordinating solvents were preferred with the exception of Kno-chel s ligand 85, which gave the highest enantioselectivity in a mixture of 25% methanol in toluene. 

Water is a possible axial ligand for the transient Ni(PP) in these systems and has been shown to form weak complexes with other nickel porphyrin species (18). While we cannot unequivocally rule out weak, transient ligation, the observation of similar transient behavior in Ni(OEP) and Ni(PPDME) in noncoordinating, nonaqueous, solvents (toluene, methylene chloride (9, unpublished results)) leads us to conclude that the transient behavior of the Ni(PP) in acetone/water is not predicated upon ligand binding. 

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