A study of reusability for the three FeIII catalyticspecies showed that triphenylphosphane oxide with either [Fe(NTf2)3] or HNTf2 turns out to be themost stable system, being highly active after sixcycles of reaction (additional lines represent systemB). In contrast, when working with [(PPh3)2Fe-(NTf2)3], generated in situ by reaction of[(PPh3)2FeCl3]+3[AgNTf2], the catalytic activity decreasedafter the third use. The use of free [Fe-(NTf2)3] is not suitable for recycling. Thus, we mustinfer that the presence of OPPh3 in the reactionmedium has a stabilizing effect because the weakphosphane oxide interaction (M···O=PPh3, M=Fe3+ or H+) avoids catalyst decomposition. In thecase of the Brønsted acid HNTf2 used alone, althoughit was certainly active under conditions ofincreased temperature and time, it was not recyclable.With these results in hand, we considered againthe possibility that H+ species generated in situwere responsible for either part or all of the catalyticactivity—a question of particular importance inmetal triflate-triflimide catalyzed-reactions—although theresults in Table 2 (entries 14–15) seemed to indicate the opposite.[17]To address this question, the apparent activationenergy (Ea) values (Figure S3 and S6) were calculated for[Fe(NTf2)3] and HNTf2 from kinetics parameters (Figure S1,S2, S4, and S5) and the Ea for Fe3+ was found to be about20 kJmol1 lower than for H+ (Table 5).
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