Walter Peters, die Peters‐Reaktion und der Bezug zu Kurt Dehnickes Arbeiten über Organoquecksilberverbindungen

Abstract

Walter Peters discovered in 1905 (Dr. phil. nat. 1903, as student the formation of arylmercurychlorides from arylsulfinates and HgCl 2 by SO 2 extrusion. At that time he worked in Arthur

Bringing a Mechanistic Lens to the Development of New Transfer Hydroarylation Isodesmic Reactions for the Synthesis of Amides, Thioamides, Amidines, Alkenes and Ketones from Carboxylic Acids via Extrusion and Insertion Elementary Steps

“…Two key processes have been explored to introduce an organometallic bond: CÀ H bond activation methods [39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49] and CÀ X bond activation of a coordinated anion to extrude a small molecule (e. g. decarboxylation of a coordinated carboxylate [50][51][52][53][54][55] or desulfination of a coordinated sulfinate [56][57][58] ). Metal-mediated decarboxylation and desulfination are named reactions (the Pesci [59] and Peters [60,61] reactions respectively) and have rich histories for the stoichiometric preparation of organometallics in the condensed phase. [62][63][64][65] The concept of fragmentation of a coordinated ligand to unmask a metal-based reactive intermediate has been pioneered in mass spectrometry based gas-phase studies by Schwarz, Beachamp, Bowers, Armentrout and others, as detailed in a review.…”

“…The metal-mediated Peters desulfination reaction [60,61] not only has attracted attention for the stoichiometric preparation of organometallics, but has also been exploited in various desulfinative cross-coupling protocols for use in organic synthesis. [56][57][58] Sun et al developed a copper(I)-catalysed desulfinative carboxylation protocol (Scheme 10).…”

“…Two key processes have been explored to introduce an organometallic bond: C−H bond activation methods [39–49] and C−X bond activation of a coordinated anion to extrude a small molecule (e. g. decarboxylation of a coordinated carboxylate [50–55] or desulfination of a coordinated sulfinate [56–58] ). Metal‐mediated decarboxylation and desulfination are named reactions (the Pesci [59] and Peters [60,61] reactions respectively) and have rich histories for the stoichiometric preparation of organometallics in the condensed phase [62–65] …”

Alfred Werner's Role in the mid-20th Century Flourishing of American Inorganic Chemistry

“…who achieved some fame as a chemist, even to the extent of having a reaction named for him -formation of organomercurials from HgCl 2 and sulfinic acids -but he can't be the one Kauffman cites: this Peters received his PhD in Strasbourg in 1903, and apparently never worked with Werner at all. [16] The two remaining students did work in chemistry in the US, but neither had any significant impact on the development of the field of inorganic chemistry. Victor L. King (1886King ( -1958 was responsible for what is arguably the most significant of Werner's publications (although he was given only the 'with' credit described above [17] ), the first reported successful resolution of an optically active coordination complex.…”