@article{
author = "Milovanović, Milan R. and Boucher, Mélanie and Cornaton, Yann and Zarić, Snežana D. and Pfeffer, Michel and Djukic, Jean-Pierre",
year = "2021",
abstract = "In an effort to determine the thermochemistry of established organometallic transformation, the well documented reaction of alkynes with a palladacycle was investigated by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). Although the mechanism of the insertion of unsaturated substrates into the Pd−C bond of cyclopalladated compounds is known, no information is available so far about their thermochemistry. The enthalpies of the reactions of Ph−C≡C−Ph and MeOC(O)−C≡C(O)COMe with the bisacetonitrilo salt of the N,N-benzylamine palladacycle were determined by ITC in chlorobenzene after having optimized the conditions to ensure that only the double and a single insertion of alkynes were occurring respectively. The reaction energy profile established by DFT for the double insertion process involving Ph−C≡C−Ph confirmed earlier conclusions on the rate determining character of the first insertion. Further computations of reaction enthalpies reveal significant discrepancies between ITC and DFT-D/continuum solvation enthalpies, that are suspected to arise from an unexpected explicit noncovalent interaction of PhCl with the components of the reaction.",
publisher = "Wiley",
journal = "European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry",
title = "The Thermochemistry of Alkyne Insertion into a Palladacycle Outlines the Solvation Conundrum in DFT",
volume = "2021",
number = "45",
pages = "4690-4699",
doi = "10.1002/ejic.202100750"
}