Wednesday, February 12, 2014

#chempaperaday Day 27/365: "Iridium Porphyrins in CD3OD: Reduction of Ir(III), CD3−OD Bond Cleavage, Ir−D Acid Dissociation and Alkene Reactions"

I have never seen iridium porphyrins before (I haven't seen rhoidum ones too.). So, it is interesting for me to read this.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/ipdf/10.1021/ic400240b
DOI: 10.1021/ic400240b
Due to my lack of knowledge, there are a few things that I couldn't understand. For example, the article says "Iridium(III) porphyrins are thus only metastable reagents for substrate reactions in strongly basic methanol." I have no idea what "basic methanol" is.




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  1. PedroSFebruary 14, 2014 at 8:16 AM

    I would guess "basic methanol" is an alkaline solution of methanol (i.e. methanol in the presence of NaOH)

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    1. ChemdiaryFebruary 16, 2014 at 7:57 PM

      Thanks. So basically, it will be sodium methoxide I guess.

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  2. PedroSFebruary 14, 2014 at 8:22 AM

    The SI has the required info: solutions were alkalinized with the addition of fully deuterated sodium methoxide (NaOCD3)

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