Silyl-pyridine-amine pincer-ligated iridium complexes for catalytic silane deuteration via room temperature C-D bond activation of benzene-d6

Takashi Komuro; Tomohiro Osawa; Ryuju Suzuki; Daiki Mochizuki; Hironori Higashi; Hiromi Tobita

doi:10.1039/c8cc09178a

Silyl-pyridine-amine pincer-ligated iridium complexes for catalytic silane deuteration via room temperature C-D bond activation of benzene-d₆

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Jan 17;55(7):957-960. doi: 10.1039/c8cc09178a.

Authors

Takashi Komuro¹, Tomohiro Osawa, Ryuju Suzuki, Daiki Mochizuki, Hironori Higashi, Hiromi Tobita

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan. tobita@m.tohoku.ac.jp.

PMID: 30604784
DOI: 10.1039/c8cc09178a

Abstract

Iridium-hydrido complexes bearing a hemilabile silyl-pyridine-amine pincer ligand were synthesised. They were found to catalyse Si-H deuteration of trialkylsilanes with excess benzene-d6 in 99-94% conversion at room temperature through C-D bond activation and H/D exchange.