Iron Complexes for Cyclic Carbonate and Polycarbonate Formation: Selectivity Control from Ligand Design and Metal-Center Geometry

Inorganic Chemistry
Kori A AndreaChristopher M Kozak

Abstract

A family of 17 iron(III) aminobis(phenolate) complexes possessing different phenolate substituents, coordination geometries, and donor arrangements were used as catalysts for the reaction of carbon dioxide (CO2) with epoxides. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry of the iron complexes with a bis(triphenylphosphine)iminium chloride cocatalyst in negative mode revealed the formation of six-coordinate iron "ate" species. Under low catalyst loadings (0.025 mol % Fe and 0.1 mol % chloride cocatalyst), all complexes showed good-to-excellent activity for converting propylene oxide to propylene carbonate under 20 bar of CO2. The most active complex possessed electron-withdrawing dichlorophenolate groups and for a 2 h reaction time gave a turnover frequency of 1240 h-1. Epichlorohydrin, styrene oxide, phenyl glycidyl ether, and allyl glycidyl ether could also be transformed to their respective cyclic carbonates with good-to-excellent conversions. Selectivity for polycarbonate formation was observed using cyclohexene oxide, where the best activity was displayed by trigonal-bipyramidal iron(III) complexes having electron-rich phenolate groups and sterically unencumbering tertiary amino donors. Those...Continue Reading

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