"Inverse-electron-demand" ligand substitution in palladium(0)-olefin complexes

Shannon S Stahl; Joseph L Thorman; Namal de Silva; Ilia A Guzei; Robert W Clark

doi:10.1021/ja028738z

"Inverse-electron-demand" ligand substitution in palladium(0)-olefin complexes

J Am Chem Soc. 2003 Jan 8;125(1):12-3. doi: 10.1021/ja028738z.

Authors

Shannon S Stahl¹, Joseph L Thorman, Namal de Silva, Ilia A Guzei, Robert W Clark

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706, USA. stahl@chem.wisc.edu

PMID: 12515487
DOI: 10.1021/ja028738z

Abstract

Ligand substitution reactions are ubiquitous in transition-metal chemistry and catalysis. Investigation of ligand substitution reactions for a series of electron-rich palladium(0)-olefin complexes, (bathocuproine)Pd(nitrostyrene) reveals an unprecedented mechanism in which the metal serves as the nucleophilic partner in an "associative" substitution pathway.