Multimetallic Cooperativity in Uranium-Mediated CO2 Activation

作者：Cooper Oliver; Camp Clement; Pecaut Jacques; Kefalidis Christos E; Maron Laurent; Gambarelli Serge; Mazzanti Marinella^*

来源：Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136(18): 6716-6723.

DOI：10.1021/ja5017624

The metal-mediated redox transformation of CO2 in mild conditions is an area of great current interest. The role of cooperativity between a reduced metal center and a Lewis acid center in small-molecule activation is increasingly recognized, but has not so far been investigated for f-elements. Here we show that the presence of potassium at a U, K site supported by sterically demanding tris(tert-butoxy)siloxide ligands induces a large cooperative effect in the reduction of CO2. Specifically, the ion pair complex [K(18c6)][U(OSi-((OBu)-Bu-t)(3))(4)], 1, promotes the selective reductive disproportionation of CO2 to yield CO and the mononuclear uranium(IV) carbonate complex [U(OSi((OBu)-Bu-t)(3))(4)(mu-kappa(2):kappa(1)-CO3)K-2(18c6)], 4. In contrast, the heterobimetallic complex [U(OSi((OBu)-Bu-t)(3))(4)K], 2, promotes the potassium-assisted two-electron reductive cleavage of CO2, yielding CO and the U(V) terminal oxo complex [UO(OSi((OBu)-Bu-t)(3))(4)K], 3, thus providing a remarkable example of two-electron transfer in U(III) chemistry. DFT studies support the presence of a cooperative effect of the two metal centers in the transformation of CO2.

• 出版日期2014-5-7
• 单位中国地震局