Abstract
The paddle-wheel dinuclear unit consists of two CuII ions bridged by four benzoate ligands, and these paddle-wheel [Cu2(O 2CPh)4] units are connected by various bridging ligands to form one-dimensional chained compounds formulated as [Cu2(O 2CPh)4(μ-L)] (L = 2,4-bpe (1), 3,3'3′-dipicam (3), 2,5-Me2pyz (4), pyz (5), 4,4'4′-bpy (6), and 4-pds (7)). The compound 2, formulated as [[Cu2(O2CPh) 4][Cu(O2CPh)2](μ-bpp)2], consists of alternating units of [Cu2(O2CPh)4] and [Cu(O2CPh)2] connected by via bpp. Compounds 1-5 and 7 efficiently catalyzed the transesterification of a variety of esters, while it has been reported that Cu-containing complexes or coordination polymers do not usually show catalytic activities for the transesterification reactions. Among these compounds, 2 was most effective. It has been proposed that in the transesterification reaction, a mononuclear type of Cu complex might be the major species of compound 2 in solution, while for all other compounds, a paddle-wheel unit might be the major reactive species.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 39-45 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Inorganica Chimica Acta |
Volume | 402 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2013 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Financial support from Converging Research Center Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2012001725, 2011K000675, and 2012008875), Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (20110008018), and the RP-Grant 2013 of Ewha Womans University are gratefully acknowledged.
Keywords
- Catalyst
- Coordination polymers
- Transesterification