Gold N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysts for the Hydrofluorination of Alkynes Using Hydrofluoric Acid: Reaction Scope, Mechanistic Studies and the Tracking of Elusive Intermediates was written by Gauthier, Raphael;Tzouras, Nikolaos V.;Zhang, Ziyun;Bedard, Sandrine;Saab, Marina;Falivene, Laura;Van Hecke, Kristof;Cavallo, Luigi;Nolan, Steven P.;Paquin, Jean-Francois. And the article was included in Chemistry – A European Journal in 2022.Electric Literature of C10H14O4 This article mentions the following:
An efficient and chemoselective methodol. deploying gold-N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes as catalysts in the hydrofluorination of terminal alkynes using aqueous HF has been developed. Mechanistic studies shed light on an in situ generated catalyst, formed by the reaction of Broensted basic gold pre-catalysts with HF in water, which exhibits the highest reactivity and chemoselectivity. The catalytic system has a wide alkyl substituted-substrate scope, and stoichiometric as well as catalytic reactions with tailor-designed gold pre-catalysts enable the identification of various gold species involved along the catalytic cycle. Computational studies aid in understanding the chemoselectivity observed through examination of key mechanistic steps for phosphine- and NHC-coordinated gold species bearing the triflate counterion and the elusive key complex bearing a bifluoride counterion. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, Diethyl 2-(prop-2-yn-1-yl)malonate (cas: 17920-23-9Electric Literature of C10H14O4).
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