The decarbonylation of aldehydes, is one of the essential protocols of synthetic chemistry, including in the total syntheses of natural products. The transition metal promoted decarbonylation of aldehydes has been established as an useful synthetic transformation. Among all the metal catalysts that have been reported for decarbonylation reactions, iridium compounds catalyze this process efficiently under very mild conditions.This research will describe C-H activation followed by decarbonylation of the C(H)O moiety of aromatic aldehydes by exocyclic diene-[Ir] complexes ([Ir]= TpMe2,hydrotris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolylborate).

Activation of aldehydes by iridium complexes derived from 1,3-oxazolidin-2-ones

248th National Meeting (2014)

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