Electronic and bonding situations at reaction centers are often detected by the remote substituent effect.For nonorganometallic reactions,this effect is conventionally described by the well-known Hammett-type substitu...Electronic and bonding situations at reaction centers are often detected by the remote substituent effect.For nonorganometallic reactions,this effect is conventionally described by the well-known Hammett-type substituent constants.However,for most transition metal(TM)-involved systems,no analogous numeral descriptors reflecting the intrinsic differences between metallic and nonmetallic bonding have been rigorously established till present.Herein,we report a Pd(II)–O bond heterolysis energyΔG_(het)(Pd–O)study of the archetypal palladium complexes to represent the thermodynamics of the essential bond-breaking step in Pd-mediated transformations.Meanwhile we furnish the new substituent constantsσPd^(+)s and therefrom facilitate linear free-energy relationship(LFER)analysis for Pd-catalyzed reactions.Indeed,this led us to find an unexpected electron-donating ability of Pd(II)cation,which provided a gifted experimental support,with the aid of computation,to attribute the frustrating observation of a much scattered curvature in theΔG_(het)(Pd–O)-σ+correlation to the electrondonating capacity of the cationic palladium through back-donation of its d-electrons.Applications of LFER analysis withσPd^(+)to predict the redox behavior of the palladium complex and in a kinetics vs.thermodynamicsmechanistic study of transmetalation added further credence to their applicability to TM systems.展开更多
基金provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(nos.21973052,21933008)the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST(no.2019QNRC001),and the Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations.
文摘Electronic and bonding situations at reaction centers are often detected by the remote substituent effect.For nonorganometallic reactions,this effect is conventionally described by the well-known Hammett-type substituent constants.However,for most transition metal(TM)-involved systems,no analogous numeral descriptors reflecting the intrinsic differences between metallic and nonmetallic bonding have been rigorously established till present.Herein,we report a Pd(II)–O bond heterolysis energyΔG_(het)(Pd–O)study of the archetypal palladium complexes to represent the thermodynamics of the essential bond-breaking step in Pd-mediated transformations.Meanwhile we furnish the new substituent constantsσPd^(+)s and therefrom facilitate linear free-energy relationship(LFER)analysis for Pd-catalyzed reactions.Indeed,this led us to find an unexpected electron-donating ability of Pd(II)cation,which provided a gifted experimental support,with the aid of computation,to attribute the frustrating observation of a much scattered curvature in theΔG_(het)(Pd–O)-σ+correlation to the electrondonating capacity of the cationic palladium through back-donation of its d-electrons.Applications of LFER analysis withσPd^(+)to predict the redox behavior of the palladium complex and in a kinetics vs.thermodynamicsmechanistic study of transmetalation added further credence to their applicability to TM systems.
