Formula: C21H24N2. The protonation of heteroatoms in aromatic heterocycles can be divided into two categories: lone pairs of electrons are in the aromatic ring conjugated system; and lone pairs of electrons do not participate. Compound: 1,3-Bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-1,3-dihydro-2H-imidazol-2-ylidene, is researched, Molecular C21H24N2, CAS is 141556-42-5, about Density Functional Theory Mechanistic Study of Ni-Catalyzed Reductive Alkyne-Alkyne Cyclodimerization: Oxidative Cyclization versus Outer-Sphere Proton Transfer. Author is Ren, Xiaojian; Lu, Yu; Lu, Gang; Wang, Zhi-Xiang.
D. functional theory mechanistic study of the nickel-catalyzed reductive alkyne-alkyne cyclodimerization with CH3OH/BEt3 unveils that, after forming a nickel-alkyne π complex, the reaction prefers outer-sphere proton transfer rather than the common alkyne-alkyne oxidative cyclization. The outperformance of aminophosphine ligand (L1) is attributed to its bidentate coordination that favors the proton transfer, the labile -NH2 and strong electron-donating -PPh2 arms and adequate Ni-P distance that allow the hydrogen transfer of the Et group of MeO-BEt3-.
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