Iridium carboxycarbene complexes by CH bond activation of aliphatic ethers and of alkyl aryl ethers

✍ Scribed by Ernesto Carmona; Margarita Paneque; Laura L. Santos; Verónica Salazar

• Book ID: 104010759
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 454 KB
• Volume: 249
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-8545
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2004.11.002

✦ Synopsis

The double C H bond activation of ethers that have an alkyl terminus, RCH 2 OR (R = alkyl, aryl), is a useful route to heteroatom-stabilized iridium carbenes, Ir = C(R)OR . An overview of our recent work in this field, using Ir(III) fragments stabilized by hydrotris(pyrazolyl)borate ligands, is presented concentrating on some aliphatic, non-cyclic ethers and on anisole, the latter taken as a representative example of alkyl aryl ethers.