A chiral diphosphine as trans-chelate ligand and its relevance to catalysis

Nasser Nasser; Dana J Eisler; Richard J Puddephatt

doi:10.1039/b923911a

A chiral diphosphine as trans-chelate ligand and its relevance to catalysis

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Mar 21;46(11):1953-5. doi: 10.1039/b923911a. Epub 2010 Jan 18.

Authors

Nasser Nasser¹, Dana J Eisler, Richard J Puddephatt

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 5B7.

PMID: 20198264
DOI: 10.1039/b923911a

Abstract

The chiral diphosphine ligand R,R-trans-1,2-C(6)H(10)(NHCOC(6)H(4)PPh(2))(2), 1, gives the fluxional trans-chelate complexes [M(1)]X, 2a-2c, M = Au or Ag. It is suggested that a similar trans-chelate conformation may be present in the catalytic intermediate [Pd(1)].