Gonzalez, Tania; Garcia, Juventino J. published an article in 2021. The article was titled 《Catalytic CO2 hydrosilylation with [Mn(CO)5Br] under mild reaction conditions》, and you may find the article in Polyhedron.Formula: C5BrMnO5 The information in the text is summarized as follows:
Carbon dioxide hydrosilylation with earth-abundant transition-metal catalysts is an attractive alternative for the design of greener and cost-effective synthetic strategies. Herein, simple [Mn(CO)5Br] is an efficient precatalyst in the hydrosilylation of carbon dioxide with Et3SiH under mild reaction conditions. Using THF as a solvent, triethylsilylformate Et3SiCH(O)O was obtained in 67% yield after 1 h at 50°C and 4 bar of CO2 pressure. The selectivity of the reaction was tuned by changing the solvent to a mixture of THF and toluene producing bis(triethylsilyl)acetal (Et3SiO)2CH2 in 86% yield. The CO2 hydrosilylation was also effective at room temperature and atm. pressure using either THF or the mixture THF/toluene as the solvent resulting in high Et3SiH conversion (92%-99%) but with a decrease in the selectivity. Radical trapping experiments indicated the participation of radical species in the catalytic mechanism. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on CO2 hydrosilylation catalyzed by transition-metal radical intermediates. In addition to this study using Bromopentacarbonylmanganese(I), there are many other studies that have used Bromopentacarbonylmanganese(I)(cas: 14516-54-2Formula: C5BrMnO5) was used in this study.
Bromopentacarbonylmanganese(I)(cas: 14516-54-2) has many other uses. It is used in the formation of (eta6-arene)tricarbonylmanganese(I) by reacting with arene (arene= hexamethyl benzene, 1,2,4,5-tetramethyl benzene, mesitylene, p-xylene and toluene) in the presence silver salt.Formula: C5BrMnO5
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