Titanium(II) Porphyrin Complexes: Versatile One- and Two-Electron Reducing Agents. Reduction of Organic Chlorides, Epoxides, and Sulfoxides

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1998
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Wang, Xiaotai
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Treatment of the well-defined complexes (TTP)Ti(η2-EtC⋮CEt) or trans-(TTP)Ti(THF)2 with vicinal dichloroalkanes or dichloroalkenes results in the production of alkenes or alkynes and 2 equiv of (TTP)TiCl. This net two-electron redox reaction arises from two formal one-electron reduction processes mediated by chlorine atom transfer. Oxygen atom transfer occurs when the Ti(II) porphyrins are treated with several different sulfoxides or epoxides, resulting in two-electron redox products, (TTP)TiO, the sulfide or alkene, and EtC⋮CEt or THF. The electronic properties of the substituents on the sulfoxides or epoxides correlate with the yield and rate of the deoxygenation reactions.

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Reprinted (adapted) with permission from Journal of Organic Chemistry 63 (1998): 356, doi:10.1021/jo971893p. Copyright 1998 American Chemical Society.

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