Fine-Tunable 3,4-Dihydroquinazol-2-ylidene Carbenes: Synthesis, Rhodium(I) Complexes, and Reactivity
文摘
The design and synthesis of various new six-membered cyclic formamidinium salts with a 3,4-dihydroquinazoline core have been reported in this paper. Our synthetic strategy allows access to a kind of tailor-made 3,4-dihydroquinazolinium salts bearing different substituent combinations. A series of novel 3,4-dihydroquinazolin-2-ylidene-based rhodium(I) complexes were prepared by the reaction of [Rh(cod)Cl]2 with the free carbene obtained in situ from the deprotonation of the corresponding 3,4-dihydroquinazolinium salts with KN(SiMe3)2. The NHCs prepared in situ can also react with S8 or CS2 to afford the corresponding thiones or NHC鈥揅S2 adducts, respectively. The rhodium(I) complexes were transformed to the corresponding dicarbonyl complexes, and the 谓(CO) values of the corresponding dicarbonyl Rh complexes indicate the 3,4-dihydroquinazol-2-ylidenes are stronger electron donors than normal five-membered NHCs. The Rh complexes are highly active in the arylation of carbonyl compounds, and the 3,4-dihydroquinazolin-2-ylidenes prepared in situ upon deprotonation are powerful in palladium-catalyzed Suzuki cross-coupling reactions at room temperature with a ppm scale catalyst loading with TONs of up to 425鈥?00.