Seminar “Sulfonium and Selenonium Salts as Noncovalent Organocatalysts for the Multicomponent Groebke−Blackburn−Bienaymé Reaction”

Seminar “Sulfonium and Selenonium Salts as Noncovalent Organocatalysts for the Multicomponent Groebke−Blackburn−Bienaymé Reaction”

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25 Feb 2023
Location
Online
Contact person
Alexander Tskhovrebov
About the event

25 February at 11.00 (Moscow time)

Speaker

Alexander S. Novikov (Senior Research Fellow, Department of Physical Organic Chemistry, SPBU, Russia)

“Sulfonium and Selenonium Salts as Noncovalent Organocatalysts for the Multicomponent Groebke−Blackburn−Bienaymé Reaction”

Sulfonium and selenonium salts, represented by S-aryl dibenzothiophenium and Se-aryl dibenzoselenophenium triflates, were found to exhibit remarkable catalytic activity in the model Groebke−Blackburn−Bienaymé reaction. Kinetic analysis and density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicated that their catalytic effect is induced by the ligation of the reaction substrates to the σ-holes on the S or Se atom of the cations. The experimental data indicated that although 10-fold excess of the chloride totally inhibits the catalytic activity of the sulfonium salts, the selenonium salt remains catalytically active, which can be explained by the experimentally found lower binding constant of the selenonium derivative to chloride in comparison with the sulfonium analogue. Both types of salts exhibit lower catalytic activity in the model reaction than dibenziodolium species.

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