Sodium organoaluminate containing bidentate pyrrolyl ligand: Synthesis, structure, and catalytic activity for the Tishchenko reaction.

• Sodium organoaluminate stabilized by bidentate pyrrolyl ligand was synthesized. • The X-Ray diffraction analyses reveal it is a 1D infinite chain structures. • It could be applied to the crossed-Tishchenko reaction of aromatic aldehyde. An novel sodium organoaluminate containing bidentate pyrrolyl ligand [C 4 H 3 NH(2-CH 2 NHtBu)] was efficiently synthesized and characterized by X-ray crystallography. The molecular structure shows it is a monodimensional infinite chain structures with linear arrangements. Its basic repeat unit comprises the Al atom bonded to two deprotonated pyrrole rings and Na atom coordinated to of nitrogen atoms of –NtBu fragment, which undergoes further to coordinates a pyrrolyl ring of an adjacent molecule in a ƞ2-fasion. Furthermore, this sodium organoaluminate exhibited high catalytic activities for Tishchenko reaction. [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]