Kazuki Nakaya,a Shintaro Takahashi,a Akihiko Ishii,a Kajjana Boonpalit,b Panida Surawatanawong*,b and Norio Nakata*,a
aDepartment of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
bDepartment of Chemistry and Center of Excellence for Innovation in Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
*E–mail: panida.sur@mahidol.ac.th
A novel three-coordinated tin(II) chloride [Ph2P(NtBu)2]SnCl (1) supported by an N,N′-di-tert-butyliminophosphonamide having two phenyl groups on the phosphorus atom was synthesized by the reaction of the starting lithium iminophosphonamide [Ph2P(NtBu)2]Li with SnCl2·(dioxane) in toluene. The molecular structure of 1 was established by X-ray diffraction analysis. Tin(II) chloride 1 can act as an efficient precatalyst for the hydroboration of a wide variety of aldehydes, ketones, and imines at −10 °C. DFT calculations propose that hydroboration involves hydride transfer from the corresponding tin(II) hydride intermediate [Ph2P(NtBu)2]SnH (10) to the carbonyl substrates via four-membered transition states (TS-12), affording three-coordinated tin(II) alkoxide intermediates [Ph2P(NtBu)2]SnOR (13), followed by the stepwise reaction of 13 with HBpin (pin = pinacolate) to release the boronate esters and regenerate the tin(II) hydride 10. The stoichiometric reaction of the in site-generated 10 with benzophenone 2a at −10 °C led to the formation of 13. Moreover, 13 also stoichiometrically reacted with HBpin at −10 °C, forming the corresponding boronate ester 3a and 10 based on the 1H NMR spectrum of the reaction mixture.
Reference: Nakaya, K.; Takahashi, S.; Ishii, A.; Boonpalit, K.; Surawatanawong, P.*; Nakata, N.* Dalton Trans. 2021, 50, 14810–14819. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/dt/d1dt01856f