Inertness of the Aryl−F Bond toward Oxidative Addition to Osmium and Rhodium Complexes: Thermodynamic or Kinetic Origin?

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Abstract

Quantum calculations with the density functional theory (B3LYP) have been carried out to compare the reactivity of aryl-H and aryl-F bonds toward oxidative addition and to understand the high degree of inertness of the latter. The thermodynamic energy patterns for oxidative addition of 1,4-difluorobenzene toward two very different metal fragments have been examined. In one of them the final product of oxidative addition could be a 16-electron unsaturated complex of the type Os(H)(CO)(C6F2H3)(PH3)2 and/or Os(F)(CO)(C6FH4)(PH3)2. In the other system the final product of oxidative addition could be an 18-electron saturated complex CpRh(PH3)(H)(C6F2H3) or CpRh(PH3)(F)(C6FH4). These two systems are models for experimental complexes which prefer the C−H to the C−F oxidative addition. The calculations reveal that, for both systems, the C−F oxidative addition is thermodynamically preferred, especially in the 16-electron case. The activation energy has been determined in the case of Rh, and it is shown that the activation energy for C−F activation is considerably higher than that for C−H activation. This clearly shows that the inertness of the C−F bond has a kinetic origin.

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