Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 883 (2019) 11e16 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Organometallic Chemistry journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jorganchem Carboxylic acid addition to terminal alkynes utilizing ammonium tagged Hoveyda-Grubbs catalyst supported on magnetically separable core/shell silica: A highly reusable and air compatible catalytic system € € * ** Bengi Ozgün Oztürk , Didar Gürcü, Solmaz Karabulut S¸ ehitoglu Hacettepe University, Faculty of Science, Chemistry Department, 06800, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey article info abstract Article history: In this study, the performance of ammonium tagged Hoveyda-Grubbs catalyst supported on magnetically Received 24 October 2018 separable core/shell silica gel was tested on carboxylic acid addition reactions to terminal alkynes using a Received in revised form variety of carboxylic acid derivatives under air atmosphere. The catalytic system was found to be 13 December 2018 compatible with air atmosphere and can tolerate even non-degassed solvents. The reaction parameters Accepted 10 January 2019 such as temperature, substrate/catalyst ratio and the effect of carboxylic acid on the selectivity and yield Available online 14 January 2019 of the reaction were investigated in details. The reaction of arylacetylenes with acetic acid yielded the corresponding E-isomer with conversion values up to 99% with a catalytic loading of 1% Ru. The reus- Keywords: Carboxylic acid ability of the catalyst was tested using acetic acid/benzoic acid and phenylacetylene in toluene at 85 C Alkyne under air atmosphere. The catalyst was found to be highly reusable and maintained its activity up to 11th Ruthenium run, reaching a conversion value of 83% with minimum ruthenium leaching. Reusable catalyst © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Enol-ester 1. Introduction alkynes [10]. The dimeric bis(allyl)ruthenium (IV) complex and 3 3 mononuclear trans-[RuCl2(h :h -C10H16)PPh3] were found to be Carboxylic acid addition reactions to terminal alkynes are of efficient catalysts for addition reactions of aromatic/aliphatic car- great importance owing to their ability to form unique CeO bonds boxylic acids to a variety of alkynes such as enynes, diynes and ter- through the enol-ester formation in an efficient manner. Different minal alkynes [11]. [Ru(dppe)2(CH3CN)Cl][BF4] complex was transition metals such as Ru, Rh, Ir, Re, Pd, and Au are used effi- reported as an anti-Markovnikov selective catalyst for carboxylic ciently in enol-ester synthesis [1,2]. Among these transition metal- acid addition reactions to terminal alkynes [12]. In 2016, a highly based catalysts, ruthenium complexes were commonly used as regioselective protocol (up to 99% Markovnikov addition product) highly active and selective catalysts in carboxylic acid addition to utilizing [Ru(CO)2(P(peC6H4eX)3)2(O2CPh)2](1a,X¼ CF3;1b,X¼ Cl; terminal alkynes [3e5](Scheme 1). 1c, X ¼ H; 1d, X ¼ Me; 1e, X ¼ OMe) for carboxylic acid addition to The first example of carboxylic acid addition to terminal alkyne terminal alkyne reactions was reported [13]. In addition to metath- reaction was reported by Shvo and Rotem utilizing Ru3(CO)12 as an esis reactions, Grubbs type catalysts can be used in various non- efficient catalyst [6]. Dixneuf and coworkers demonstrated the effect metathetical catalytic transformation reactions [14]. The thermo- of the catalyst structure on the selectivity of the addition reaction lysed Grubbs catalyst was found to be an efficient catalyst for car- 6 using RuCl2(h -arene)(PR3)] and [{Ru(meO2CH)e(CO)2(PPh3)}2 to boxylic acid addition reactions to alkynes giving Markovnikov obtain Marknovnikov product. On the other hand, [Ru(h3-2- addition products and the same study also demonstrated the pH- 2 C3H4Me)2{k (P,P)-Ph2P(CH2)nPPh2}] yielded mainly Z-isomer of the dependent selectivity of the reaction [15]. Our research group re- addition product [7e9]. Recently Stark et al. reported a cationic ported the activity of Grubbs 2nd generation analog on carboxylic ruthenium catalyst: [RuCl(2,6-diacetylpyridine)(PPh3)2]BArF giving acid addition and terminal alkyne dimerization reactions [16]. The predominantly gem isomer in carboxylic acid addition reactions to analog of Grubbs catalyst bearing N-heterocyclic carbene ligands showed high Z selectivity yielding Markovnikov products in car- boxylic acid addition reactions and can even catalyze the carboxylic * Corresponding author. acid addition to internal alkynes. A limited amount of study was ** Corresponding author. focused on the carboxylic acid addition to internal alkynes which are € € E-mail address: [email protected] (B.O. Oztürk). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2019.01.005 0022-328X/© 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. € € 12 B.O. Oztürk et al. / Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 883 (2019) 11e16 Scheme 1. Ruthenium based catalysts for carboxylic acid addition to terminal alkynes. known as challenging substrates [17e20]. Although a variety of final product was characterized by means of 1H NMR spectroscopy different catalysts were employed in carboxylic acid addition re- and GC-MS analysis. actions, only a few catalytic systems were found to be reusable [21e23]. A reusable heterogeneous catalyst system based on phos- 2.2. The representative protocol for reusability tests phine modified Ru/CeO2 for carboxylic acid addition reactions to terminal alkynes was reported by Nishiumi et al. [22]. Recently our Alkyne (0.18 mmol) and carboxylic acid (1.8 mmol) were added research group has reported a novel support material based on core/ to the Schlenk reactor. Toluene (1 mL) and Ru-1@SiO2-magn shell structured magnetically separable silica gel for ammonium (20 mg, 0.0018 mmol Ru) were added to the reaction medium and tagged Hoveyda-Grubbs catalysts [24] as a robust and highly reus- reaction mixture were stirred at 85 C under air atmosphere. Ali- able catalytic system for ring-closing metathesis reactions [25]. Here quots taken from the reaction mixture was diluted with methanol we report the activity of ammonium tagged Hoveyda-Grubbs cata- and analyzed by GC-MS using n-tetradecane as the internal stan- lysts immobilized on magnetically separable core/shell silica sup- dard. Once the reaction was finished, the catalyst was separated ports for the carboxylic acid addition reactions to arylacetylenes. The from the reaction mixture with the aid of a magnet. The catalyst homogenous ammonium tagged Hoveyda-Grubbs catalyst and its was kept in the reactor while the solution phase was taken out of supported analog was compared in means of selectivity. The sup- the reactor via Pasteur pipet. The catalyst was washed with toluene ported catalyst Ru-1@SiO2 catalyzed the acetic acid/benzoic acid and dichloromethane and then reused in carboxylic acid addition addition reactions to phenylacetylene up to 11th run without any reactions. significant decrease in both activity and selectivity. 3. RESULTS&DISCUSSION 2. Experimental Magnetic mesoporous core/shell silica gels and Ru-1@SiO2- Otherwise noted all chemicals were purchased from Sigma- magn. were synthesized according to the literature (Fig. 1)[25]. Ru- Aldrich and used as received. Toluene was dried over Na wire/ 1 (commercial name; Aquamet) was supported on core/shell silica benzophenone and distilled under a nitrogen atmosphere. gel (surface area: 630 m2/g; pore size/volume; 2.88 nm/0.393 cm3) Ammonium tagged Hoveyda-Grubbs catalyst; (1,3-bis(mesityl) in CH2Cl2 medium. The ruthenium content of the Ru-1@SiO2-magn. imidazolidin-2-ylidene)(2-((1-(methoxy(methyl)amino)-1- was found to be 0.090 mmol Ru/g as determined by ICP-MS. oxopropan-2-yl)oxy)benzylidene)ruthenium(VI) chloride were First tests were carried out using phenylacetylene and acetic purchased from Strem and used as received. Core/Shell structured acid with a catalytic loading of 1% Ru in toluene at 85 C. In the first magnetically separable silica gels and the supported catalyst; Ru- trial, acetic acid/phenylacetylene (mol/mol) ratio was varied be- 1@SiO2-magn. were synthesized according to the literature [25]. tween 1/1, 2/1, 5/1 and 10/1 and results were given in Table 1. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analyses were As it can be seen in Table 1, alkyne dimerization reaction can be performed with a Shimadzu GC-MS 2010 Plus using a Restek Rxi-5 suppressed by increasing acid/alkyne ratio. The amount of dimer- Sil column (30 m  0.25 mm  0.25 mm) and temperature range of ization product had significantly decreased when acid/alkyne ratio 50e320 C with a constant helium flow rate of 1 ml/min 1H and 13C was increased from 1/1 to 10/1. Dimerization reaction was NMR spectra were recorded at 25 C with a Bruker GmbH 400-MHz completely suppressed at the acid/alkyne ratio of 10/1. On the next high performance digital FT-NMR spectrometer using CDCl3 as the trial, the effect of solvent on carboxylic acid addition reactions was solvent. tested using both homogeneous and supported catalysts; Ru-1 and 2.1. The representative protocol for carboxylic acid addition to terminal alkynes Alkyne (0.18 mmol) and carboxylic acid (1.8 mmol) was added to the Schlenk reactor. Toluene (1 mL) and Ru-1@SiO2-magn. (20 mg, 0.0018 mmol Ru) were added to the reaction medium and reaction mixture were stirred at 85 C under air atmosphere. Aliquots taken from the reaction mixture was diluted with methanol and analyzed by GC-MS using n-tetradecane as an internal standard. Once the reaction was finished, the catalyst was separated from the reaction mixture with the aid of a magnet. The volatiles were removed by high vacuum. The remaining solution was diluted by dichloro- methane and extracted with saturated NaHCO3 solution followed by extraction with water. The organic layer was dried with MgSO4 and then volatiles were removed by high vacuum. The resulting Fig.