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- Title
An In‐Depth Look at the Reactivity of Non‐Redox‐Metal Alkylperoxides.
- Authors
Pietrzak, Tomasz; Justyniak, Iwona; Kubisiak, Marcin; Bojarski, Emil; Lewiński, Janusz
- Abstract
Over the past 150 years, a certain mythology has arisen around the mechanistic pathways of the oxygenation of organometallics with non‐redox‐active metal centers as well as the character of products formed. Notably, there is a widespread perception that the formation of commonly encountered metal alkoxide species results from the auto‐oxidation reaction, in which a parent metal alkyl compound is oxidized by the metal alkylperoxide via oxygen transfer reaction. Now, harnessing a well‐defined zinc ethylperoxide incorporating a β‐diketiminate ligand, the investigated alkylperoxide compounds do not react with the parent metal alkyl complex as well as Et2Zn to form a zinc alkoxide. Upon treatment of the zinc ethylperoxide with Et2Zn, a previously unobserved ligand exchange process is favored. Isolation of a zinc hydroxide carboxylate as a product of decomposition of the parent zinc ethylperoxide demonstrates the susceptibility of the latter to O−O bond homolysis.
- Subjects
ORGANOMETALLIC compounds; OXYGENATION (Chemistry); PEROXIDES; ALKYL compounds; ALKOXIDES
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2019, Vol 131, Issue 25, p8614
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.201904380