Metal-peroxo complexes

Aminechromium peroxo-complexes Azides (acyl, halogen, non-metal, organic) Arenediazoniumolates... 

The aqueous solution chemistry of Tc(VII) is dominated by the stability of the TeO anion [4], Nitrido complexes are few and are limited to peroxides and one dimeric nitrido-hydrazido example. The peroxo complexes based on the [TcVIIN(02 )2] core are analogous to the well-known isoelectronic [MoviO(02)2] complexes [117] and are the only examples of nitridoperoxo complexes and rare examples of peroxo complexes of a metal in the +7 oxidation state. 

Despite of the common reaction mechanism, peroxo complexes exhibit very different reactivities - as shown by the calculated activation energies -depending on the particular structure (nature of the metal center, peroxo or hydroperoxo functionalities, type and number of ligands). We proposed a model [72, 80] that is able to qualitatively rationalize differences in the epoxidation activities of a series of structurally similar TM peroxo compounds CH3Re(02)20-L with various Lewis base ligands L. In this model the calculated activation barriers of direct oxygen transfer from a peroxo group... 

In summary, one can identify three factors that mainly affect the epoxidation activity of a TM peroxo complex (i) the strength of the M-0 and 0-0 interactions, (ii) the electrophilidfy of the peroxo oxygen centers and the olefin, and (iii) the interaction between the tt(C-C) HOMO of the olefin and the peroxo a (0-0) orbital in the LUMO group of the metal complex to which we will also refer as the relevant unoccupied MO, RUMO (Figure 5). 

The metal-alcoholate mechanism is well established for allylic alcohol epoxidation in the presence of Ti and V catalysts. [41, 51, 52, 111-113], In principle, it can provide a viable pathway also for catalysis by a Re complex. In fact, allylic alcohols may add, at least formally, to either an oxo-Re or peroxo-Re moiety (e.g. of 5a or 5b) in a process which is referred to as metal-alcoholate binding this mechanism gives rise to metal-alcoholate intermediates. We identified four intermediates of alcohol addition to di(peroxo) complexes two resulting transition states, S-8 and S-9b, are shown in Figure 11. All metal-alcoholate intermediates he significantly higher in energy (by 10-22 kcal/mol) than 5b + propenol, except the... 

These findings for Re peroxo complexes are in striking contrast with Ti and V catalyzed reactions [41, 51, 52, 111, 113] in which the metal-alcoholate bond drives the allylic OH directivity. We recall that the formation of alcoholate intermediates was also rejected for epoxidations of allylic alcohols with Mo and W peroxo compounds while H-bonding (between OH and the reacting peroxo fragment) was considered consistent with kinetic data for these complexes [115]. 

It is instructive to compare the properties of metal peroxo and alkyl (or hydro) peroxo groups for the case of Ti because experimental structures of both types are known [117, 119-121] and Ti compounds are catalysts for such important processes as Sharpless epoxidation [22] and epoxidation over Ti-silicalites [122], where alkyl and hydro peroxo intermediates, respectively, are assumed to act as oxygen donors. Actually, the known Ti(t 2-02) complexes are not active in epoxidation. [121-124] However, there is evidence [123] that (TPP)Ti(02) (TPP = tetraphenylporphyrin) becomes active in epoxidation of cyclohexene when transformed to the cis-hydroxo(alkyl peroxo) complex (TPP)Ti(OH)(OOR) although the latter has never been isolated. 

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