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    Hydration of nitriles using a metal-ligand cooperative ruthenium pincer catalyst
    (Cambridge : RSC, 2019) Guo, Beibei; de Vries, Johannes G.; Otten, Edwin
    Nitrile hydration provides access to amides that are important structural elements in organic chemistry. Here we report catalytic nitrile hydration using ruthenium catalysts based on a pincer scaffold with a dearomatized pyridine backbone. These complexes catalyze the nucleophilic addition of H2O to a wide variety of aliphatic and (hetero)aromatic nitriles in tBuOH as solvent. Reactions occur under mild conditions (room temperature) in the absence of additives. A mechanism for nitrile hydration is proposed that is initiated by metal-ligand cooperative binding of the nitrile. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry.
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    Gas hydrates model for the mechanistic investigation of the Wittig reaction “on water”
    (London : RSC Publishing, 2016) Ayub, Khurshid; Ludwig, Ralf
    Theoretical mechanistic details for “on water” Wittig reaction of a stabilized ylide with benzaldehyde are presented and compared with a similar reaction under neat conditions. A gas hydrate structure consisting of 20 water molecules has been applied as a water surface for the reaction. The model is chosen to capture non-bonding interactions over a larger area in order to better account for the “on water” effect. The calculated acceleration for the cis-selective Wittig reaction is more than that for the trans-selective Wittig reaction. The “on water” acceleration for the Wittig reaction is due to greater number of non-bonding interactions in the transition state, compared to the starting material. The greater acceleration for the cis-selective Wittig over the trans-selective Wittig has been rationalized on the basis of non-bonding interactions in addition to hydrogen bonding. Besides accelerating the reaction, water also affects the pathway for the reaction. Decomposition of cisOP2 to alkene is estimated as a barrierless process. Moreover OP2 is more stable than OP1 for both cis and trans-selective Wittig reactions, opposite to what is observed for the neat reaction.