Conversion of haloform to carbonate by iridium N-heterocyclic carbene complexes and silver(i) oxide

Andrew C Marr; Patrick J Morgan; Graham C Saunders; Hayden P Thomas

doi:10.1039/c8dt04456b

Conversion of haloform to carbonate by iridium N-heterocyclic carbene complexes and silver(i) oxide

Dalton Trans. 2019 Feb 5;48(6):1947-1949. doi: 10.1039/c8dt04456b.

Authors

Andrew C Marr¹, Patrick J Morgan, Graham C Saunders, Hayden P Thomas

Affiliation

¹ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, David Keir Building, Belfast BT9 5AG, UK.

PMID: 30637429
DOI: 10.1039/c8dt04456b

Abstract

The reaction between haloform, the complexes [Cp*IrCl2(κC-MeNC3H2NCH2Ar)] (Ar = C6H3F2-2,6, C6H3F-2-Cl-6, C6H3Me2-2,6) and silver(i) oxide proceeded by carbon-halogen bond fission to yield the carbonate complexes [Cp*Ir(κ2O-CO3)(κC-MeNC3H2NCH2Ar)].