Experimental and Theoretical Examination of C−CN and C−H Bond Activations of Acetonitrile Using Zerovalent Nickel

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Abstract

Experimental and density functional theory show that the reaction of acetonitrile with a zerovalent nickel bis(dialkylphosphino)ethane fragment (alkyl = methyl, isopropyl) proceeds via initial exothermic formation of an eta(2)-nitrile complex. Three well-defined transition states have been found on the potential energy surface between the eta(2)-nitrile complex and the activation products. The lowest energy transition state is an eta(3)-acetonitrile complex, which connects the eta(2)-nitrile to a higher energy eta(3)-acetonitrile intermediate with an agostic C-H bond, while the other two lead to cleavage of either the C-H or the C-CN bonds. Gas-phase calculations show C-CN bond activation to be endothermic, which contradicts the observation of thermal C-CN activation in THF. Therefore, the effect of solvent was taken into consideration by using the polarizable continuum model (PCM), whereupon the activation of the C-CN bond was found to be exothermic. Furthermore the C-CN bond activation was found to be favored exclusively over C-H bond activation due to the strong thermodynamic driving force and slightly lower kinetic barrier.

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