Issue 45, 2019

Reactivity patterns of vanadium(iv/v)-oxo complexes with olefins in the presence of peroxides: a computational study

Abstract

Vanadium porphyrin complexes are naturally occurring substances found in crude oil and have been shown to have medicinal properties as well. Little is known on their activities with substrates; therefore, we decided to perform a detailed density functional theory study on the properties and reactivities of vanadium(IV)- and vanadium(V)-oxo complexes with a TPPCl8 or 2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octachloro-meso-tetraphenylporphyrinato ligand system. In particular, we investigated the reactivity of [VV(O)(TPPCl8)]+ and [VIV(O)(TPPCl8)] with cyclohexene in the presence of H2O2 or HCO4. The work shows that vanadium(IV)-oxo and vanadium(V)-oxo are sluggish oxidants by themselves and react with olefins slowly. However, in the presence of hydrogen peroxide, these metal-oxo species can be transformed into a side-on vanadium-peroxo complex, which reacts with substrates more efficiently. Particularly with anionic axial ligands, the side-on vanadium-peroxo and vanadium-oxo complexes produced epoxides from cyclohexene via small barrier heights. In addition to olefin epoxidation, we investigated aliphatic hydroxylation mechanisms by the same oxidants and some oxidants show efficient and viable cyclohexene hydroxylation mechanisms. The work implies that vanadium-oxo and vanadium-peroxo complexes can react with double bonds through epoxidation, and under certain conditions also undergo hydroxylation, but the overall reactivity is highly dependent on the equatorial ligand, the local environment and the presence or absence of anionic axial ligands.

Graphical abstract: Reactivity patterns of vanadium(iv/v)-oxo complexes with olefins in the presence of peroxides: a computational study

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 ጁላይ 2019
Accepted
14 ኦክቶ 2019
First published
15 ኦክቶ 2019

Dalton Trans., 2019,48, 16899-16910

Reactivity patterns of vanadium(IV/V)-oxo complexes with olefins in the presence of peroxides: a computational study

M. Q. E. Mubarak and S. P. de Visser, Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 16899 DOI: 10.1039/C9DT03048D

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