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Thermolysis of Tetranuclear Palladium Clusters: Unexpected Transfer of Oxygen from a Carboxylate Group to Carbene and Carbonyl Bridging Ligands; Carbon Dioxide Insertion into C–H Bonds

T. A. Stromnova, I. N. Busygina, N. Yu. Tihonova, I. I. Moiseev

N.S. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract: Thermolysis of the tetranuclear palladium clusters [Pd₄(μ-Q)₄(μ-O₂CR)₄] (Q = CPh₂ or CO; R = Me, CMe₃, Ph, CH₂Cl or CF₃) has been found to involve inner-sphere oxidation of carbene or carbonyl ligands during which an oxygen atom transfer occurs from the carboxylate group to the carbene or carbonyl ligand; the thermolysis of the carbonyl clusters gives rise to the products of CO₂ insertion into the C–H bond of benzene or toluene used as solvents forming benzoic acid from benzene and a mixture of phenylacetic and toluic acids from toluene.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1070/MC1991v001n02ABEH000034

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