Sigma/Pi Coordination of Heteroarenes to a Transition Metal Center

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K17884
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Inorganic chemistry
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Yamamoto Koji 東京工業大学, 物質理工学院, 助教 (70647198)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ヘテロアレーン / パラジウム / 錯体 / sigma-pi連続性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The coordination behavior of heteroarenes to a palladium center has attracted much attention since their coordination has been thought to be involved in Pd-catalyzed transformations of heteroarenes. While the eta1-sigma-coordinating heteroarenes complexes have been proposed in the Pd-catalyzed processes, the coordination behavior of heteroarenes has been still elusive. We demonstrated that there is a sigma-pi continuum for eta1-indole-Pd complexes through successful isolation, systematic structure analysis and theoretical calculation analysis of a series of non-anchored indole-Pd(II) complexes.

Free Research Field

錯体化学