<p dir="ltr">Vinylidenes are highly reactive intermediates that undergo a variety of chemical reactions. Our group has pioneered the in-situ generation of vinylidenes from bench stable 1,1-dichloroalkenes using transition metal catalysts and an exogenous reductant.</p><p dir="ltr">Herein, we demonstrate the intramolecular insertion of vinylidenes into Si–H bonds for the synthesis of unsaturated silacycles of different ring sizes. It is well known that the replacement of carbon for silicon are of significant interest to medicinal chemists as a strategy for improving the potency or pharmacokinetic properties of biologically active compounds. This method provides convenient access to trisubstituted vinyl silanes which are synthesized intermolecularly, including those that can be used as nucleophilic partners in Hiyama cross-coupling reactions. Finally, deuterium isotope labelling experiments reveal interesting mechanistic features of the reaction.</p><p dir="ltr">The second chapter of the thesis further highlights the reactivity of vinylidenes through utilizing a cobalt catalyst. Vinylidene complexes can be added into an alkyne intramolecularly followed by a cobalt to zinc transmetalation step. The resulting organozinc intermediate can be trapped with various electrophiles. Further, by altering the reaction condition, the cobaltacycle intermediate can be accessed using π systems to form different cycloadducts.</p>

The study of normal N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs), which probably represent one of the most important families of ligands in organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis, has indubitably led to the usage of other related ligands beyond di-amino carbenes. So far, such species are only marginally used as ligands due to their relative novelty and stability. The following chapters describe the exciting journey into the development of new synthetic accesses of various abnormal, remote N-heterocyclic, mesoionic and carbocyclic carbene transition metal complexes. The uses of a number of these ruthenium- and copper-based complexes as catalysts in several applications are also disclosed. Halfway between the study of the electronic effect of mixed NHC/phosphite ruthenium in olefin metathesis reactions (Chapter 1) and NHC copper-catalysed transformations (Chapters 5 and 6), resides the core of this dissertation that links the book end chapters. Indeed, the NHC-Cuᴵ transfer or “transmetalation” reaction is disclosed as a powerful and reliable tool to access new transition metal catalysts in a relatively general manner. The syntheses of a series of various non-conventional NHC-Cu complexes as precursors for the transmetalation reaction are also described in Chapter 2. The dissertation finally closes with some preliminary results on what represents the first experimental and theoretical evidence for the mechanism of the NHC transfer by transmetalation. The exploration of the reaction by exchange from copper to platinum has begun to reveal what was so far unknown through the isolation of reactive intermediate species formed during the process.

Ce manuscrit traite de la complexation des métaux post-transitionnels de la période 6 par des porphyrines comportant une ou deux anses à acide(s) carboxylique(s) suspendu(s). Celles-ci possèdent des cinétiques rapides d'insertion du Bi permettant d'envisager, de par la complexation et la vectorisation du 213Bi, une application en α-radio-immunothérapie (α-RIT). Dans ce but, trois porphyrines à anse(s) ont été élaborées et le meilleur taux d'insertion du 213Bi a été obtenu avec la porphyrine bis-anse bis-acide grâce à un processus sans précédent de transmétallation Pb«froid»213Bi, il atteint les 80% et est comparable à celui obtenu avec le CHX-DTPA, meilleur chélate du 213Bi. S'agissant de la vectorisation du 213Bi, deux porphyrines bifonctionnelles ont été préparées et les tests de couplage sur anticorps ont montré la formation d'agrégats en raison de leur faible hydrosolubilité. Par ailleurs, une porphyrine hydrosoluble mono-anse monoacide a été synthétisée, mais en absence d'une deuxième anse à acide carboxylique l'insertion du 213Bi reste faible (< 10%). Ce travail permet de conclure que pour atteindre notre objectif d'α-RIT, il faudra élaborer une porphyrine hydrosoluble comportant deux anses à acide carboxylique. Les deux autres parties sont plus fondamentales, d'abord l'accès à un commutateur moléculaire grâce à une double translocation d'ions métalliques au sein de complexes bimétalliques de thallium, déclenchée par un processus d'oxydoréduction TlI↔TlIII. En effet, au sein de nos complexes bimétalliques, deux modes de coordination coexistent, l'un avec un métal M lié à la porphyrine «out of plane» OOP et l'autre avec un métal M' lié à l'anse «hanging atop» HAT. Nous visons un état dans lequel le TlIII serait OOP et le deuxième métal M HAT et un second avec le TlI HAT et M OOP. Les études de coordination du thallium par une porphyrine bis-anse bis-acide ont mis en évidence la formation du 1er exemple de complexe à valence mixte TlIII/TlI par photo-oxydation ou par réduction du HgII. De plus, les deux états du commutateur moléculaire visé ont été obtenus indépendamment : TlIII OOP/PbII HAT et TlI HAT/ PbII OOP. L'utilisation du deuxième phénomène redox pourra permettre le passage de l'un à l'autre constituant un premier pas vers un commutateur moléculaire. Finalement, nous visons de nouveaux complexes supramoléculaires de coordination à partir de sous-unités bimétalliques dont l'assemblage métal-dirigé via l'anse sera modulé par la nature des métaux sur la porphyrine. Trois nouvelles porphyrines ont été synthétisées avec une ou deux anses à acide carboxylique suspendu dont la position α est substituée par une seconde fonction acide carboxylique ou par une fonction cyano. La métallation de celles-ci par le PbII, le HgII ou le CdII a été étudiée et deuxstructures RX de complexes dinucléaires de CdII et de PbII ont été obtenues avec une porphyrine bis-anse bis-cyano. Elles montrent l'influence de la nature du métal sur l'orientation des groupements coordinants. / This manuscript is related to the complexation of the period 6 main group and late transition metals by porphyrins bearing one or two straps with overhanging carboxylic acid. These porphyrins possess fast metal ion insertion rate allowing us to consider, through 213Bi-α-emitter complexation and vectorization, an application in α-radio-immunotherapy (α-RIT). For that purpose, we designed 3 strapped-porphyrins with one or 2 overhanging carboxylic acid. The best 213Bi insertion rate of 80% was obtained with the bis-acid bis-strapped porphyrin thanks to an unprecedented transmetallation “cold” Pb213Bi process; which is close to that of the CHX-DTPA, best known 213Bi chelate. Regarding 213Bi vectorization, 2 BFC porphyrins were synthetized and immunoconjugation experiments proved aggregate formation due to their poor water-solubility. Furthermore, a water-soluble mono-acid and mono-strapped porphyrin was realised but without the 2nd carboxylic acid the 213Bi insertion was very low (<10%). This work provided the conclusion that to achieve the α-RIT objective we have to design a new porphyrin water-soluble with 2 straps bearing one overhanging carboxylic acid. The 2 last chapters are related to fundamental applications, Firstly, a molecular switch through thallium heterobimetallic complexes in which a double translocation of metallic ions will take place thanks to Tl(I)↔Tl(III) redox process. In fact, in our heterobimetallic porphyrin complexes 2 coordination modes can coexist, one M metal is out of the porphyrin plane (OOP) while the other M’ metal is bound to the strap and hanging atop the porphyrin (HAT). So, we considered a state in which the Tl(III) will be OOP while the other metal M will be HAT and in the 2nd the Tl(I) will be HAT and the M metal will be OOP. Thallium coordination studies were implemented with a bis-acid bis-strapped porphyrin and they evidenced the sunlight-driven and redox-driven formation the 1st example of a mixed-valence Tl(III)/Tl(I) porphyrin complex. Moreover, 2 states of the targeted molecular switch have been independently obtained the OOP Tl(III)/HAT Pb(II), and the HAT Tl(I)/OOP Pb(II). Using the 2nd phenomenon, we can consider obtaining transition between those 2 complexes to move towards an eventual molecular switch. Finally, we aim new supramolecular coordination complexes from bimetallic and dynamic porphyrin sous-units of which the metal-directed self-assembly through the strap could be modulated by the nature of metals bound to the porphyrin. 3 new porphyrins were designed with strap(s) bearing overhanging carboxylic acid of which α-position is occupied by either one other carboxylic acid or a cyano group. Metalation studies of those porphyrins was performed with Pb(II), Bi(III), Hg(II) or Cd(II) and 2 Xray structures of binuclear complexes of Cd(II) and Pb(II) was obtained with a bis-cyanoacid bis-strapped porphyrin. They proved the influence of the metallic ion nature on the coordinating group orientation.

Cette thèse est consacrée à l’étude de mécanismes de réactions catalysées par des métaux ainsi qu’au développement de nouveaux outils pour la rationalisation et la prévision du comportement catalytique. L’étape de transmétallation entre le bore et le nickel a été étudiée en détail à l’aide de méthodes expérimentales variées (electrochimie, RMN, cinétiques) et par DFT, permettant d’expliquer certaines limitations rencontrées par les experimentateurs. La seconde partie de cette thèse est dédiée à la rationalisation du comportement d’une famille d’acides de Lewis : les sels de triflate et de triflimidate. Leur comportement a été étudié sur des réactions modèles d’amination et d’oxidation et une nouvelle échelle théorique d’acidité de Lewis basée sur l’estimation du transfert de charge vers l’acide à permis de reproduire et prévoir l’activité catalytique. / In this thesis mechanistic studies of metal-catalyzed reactions as well as development of new tools to predict and rationalize the catalytic properties are presented. The boron-tonickel transmetalation step was thoroughly studied by experimental technics (electrochemistry, NMR, kinetics) and DFT calculations, allowing us to solve some of the limitation encountered by the synthetic chemists. In the second part of this thesis the behavior of a family of Lewis acids (triflates and triflimides) is rationalize. Two model reactions (SN and redox) were studied and a new theoretical scale of Lewis acidity was developed based on the charge transferred to the acid allowing us to reproduce and predict the catalytic activity of these salts.

<p dir="ltr">Originating from J. J. Thomsons original work and the development of electrospray ionization (ESI) by John B. Fenn, mass spectrometry offers a versatile analytical tool to measure beyond an ion’s m/z, especially for biomolecules. Gas-phase ion/ion reactions within a mass spectrometer offers an attractive approach to study biomolecules as they take place on the millisecond and sub millisecond time scale, have high efficiency, allow oppositely charged ions to interact with each other in a controlled manner, and a allows for selection of each reactant prior to the reaction via ion isolation. This can be used to probe gas-phase chemistry that can reflect reactions in solution, however gas-phase reactions have no solvent effects and happen faster, making it a simpler experiment. Here, a variety of gas-phase ion/ion reactions and ion trap methodologies are described to study mostly lipids with a minor amount of transmetalation at the beginning.</p><p dir="ltr">First, a series of multivalent metals complexed to neutral ligands are demonstrated to form ion-pairs with tetraphenylborate anions via ion/ion reactions. The resulting products were subjected to collision induced activation (CID) to observe their involvement in transmetalation, complementary density functional theory (DFT) calculations are provided as well. Next, sequential ion/ion reactions were performed to convert isomeric phosphoinositol phosphates dianions to monocations to reveal structural characterization and isomeric differentiation utilizing tandem MS and dissociation kinetics. The following two chapters after, reports on complementary efforts to separate lipids in the gas-phase of different mass and charge but similar mass-to-charge (m/z) resulting in overlapping m/z signals. The first report demonstrates a physical approach where singly and double charged lipids are separated in space from each other, trapped simultaneously such that no information is lost. The second utilizes a lanthanide, Yb3+ trication complex that underwent ion/ion reactions with singly and doubly charged lipid anions of similar m/z that result in different m/z products for each singly and doubly charged lipids. Lastly, a sequential ion/ion approach utilizing hexa(ethylene glycol) dithiol as a novel reagent to charge invert structurally uninformative lipid cations to structurally informative anions with subsequent carbon-carbon double bond localization.</p>

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