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Heck arylation of acyclic olefins employing arenediazonium salts and chiral N,N ligands: new mechanistic insights from quantum-chemical calculations

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A quantum-chemical study based on the Kohn–Sham density functional theory (DFT) has been performed in order to investigate the asymmetric Heck–Matsuda (HM) reactions involving a chiral N,N ligand pyrimidine-oxazoline. The oxidative addition (OA) of arenediazonium cation was analyzed to provide further insights in the unexpected high reactivity of N,N-ligated palladium(0)-based catalysts observed in these HM processes. DFT calculations suggest that the ionogenic nature of metal center promoted by the arenediazonium cation addition increases the electronic reactivity of palladium(0) toward the donor N,N ligand. The concerted and multi-step mechanisms were computed for the OA step, in which the cationic aryl-palladium(II) complex formation was revealed as the thermodynamic driving force for this process. The importance of conformational analyses was highlighted, particularly when an acyclic alkenol olefin is taken as substrate, since its absence could lead to misleading predictions about the selectivity of these HM systems. While the enantioselectivity is controlled by the combination of steric and dispersion interactions between ligand and substrate, the regioselectivity is mostly oriented by the electronic nature of olefinic carbons. DFT predictions on the selectivity were shown to be in quantitative agreement with experimental results.

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V.H.M.S (Grant #2017/18207-1), C.R.D.C. (Grant #2014/25770-6), and A.A.C.B (Grant #2015/01491-3) thank the São Paulo Research Foundation for financial support. A.A.C.B (CNPq, Grant #309715/2017-2), C.C.O (159687/2015-2), and C.R.D.C. (CNPq, Grant 157522/2015) also thank the Brazilian National Research Council for financial support and fellowships. This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001.

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da Silva, V.H.M., Oliveira, C.C., Correia, C.R.D. et al. Heck arylation of acyclic olefins employing arenediazonium salts and chiral N,N ligands: new mechanistic insights from quantum-chemical calculations. Theor Chem Acc 139, 77 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00214-020-02588-x

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