Mingqiang Xue (薛明强),Yu Zheng Yubiao Hong Yingming Yao Fan Xu(徐凡),Yong Zhang Qi Shen
Key Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of Jiangsu Province, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Dushu Lake Campus, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, People's Republic of China
Dalton Trans., 2015,44, 20075-20086
Reduction reactions of bis(β-diketiminate)lanthanide(III) chlorides formed in situ by reactions of anhydrous LnCl3 with 2 equiv. of sodium salt of the β-diketiminate ligand in THF with a Na/K alloy afforded a series of bis(β-diketiminate)lanthanide(II) complexes LnL2(THF)n (L = L2,6-Me2 = [N(2,6-Me2C6H3)C(Me)]2CH−, n = 1, Ln = Eu(1); L = L2,4,6-Me3 = [N(2,4,6-Me3C6H2)C(Me)]2CH−, n = 1, Ln = Eu (2); L = L2,6-iPr2 = [N(2,6-iPr2C6H3)C(Me)]2CH−, n = 0, Ln = Eu (3), Sm (4); L = L2,6-ipr2Ph = [(2,6-iPr2C6H3)NC(Me)CHC(Me)N(C6H5)]−, n = 0, Ln = Eu (5), Yb(6); L = L2-Me = [N(2-MeC6H4)C(Me)]2CH−, n = 1, Ln = Yb (7)) in high yields. All the complexes, especially the complexes of SmII (4) and EuII (5), were found to be excellent pre-catalysts for catalytic addition of amines to carbodiimides to multi-substituted guanidines with a wide scope of substrates. The activity depends both on the central metals and the ligands with the active sequence of YbII < EuII and EuII < SmII and L2,6-Me2 < L2,4,6-Me3 ∼ L2,6-iPr2 < L2,6-ipr2Ph for the ligands. The mechanistic study by the isolation of guanidinate species and their reactivity revealed that EuII monoguanidinate complexes Eu(L2,6-Me2)[(C6H5N)C(NHCy)(NCy)](DME) (8) and Eu(L2,6-ipr2Ph)[(C6H5N)C(NHCy)(NCy)](THF)2 (9) should be the key active intermediates for the systems with EuII complexes and a YbIII bis(guanidinate) complex Yb(L2-Me)[(C6H5N)C(NHCy)(NCy)]2(11)for the system using a YbII complex.
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