While catalysis with silver has seen significant growth over the past decade, the mechanisms of silver-catalyzed redox reactions are still poorly understood, which makes rational design and improvement difficult. This work describes an experimental mechanistic study of nitrene transfer catalyzed by a dinuclear silver(I) complex. We describe the synthesis, isolation, and characterization of reactive silver(II) complexes with potential relevance to nitrene transfer catalysis, via spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. In addition, we report the investigation of solution-phase structures of silver(I) and silver(II) complexes, using extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) analysis.

Mechanistic studies of alkene aziridination with a dinuclear silver catalyst

2019 Spring National Meeting

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