Activations palladium® acetate

The chemistry of vinyl acetate synthesis from the gas-phase oxidative coupling of acetic acid with ethylene has been shown to be facilitated by many co-catalysts. Since the inception of the ethylene-based homogeneous liquid-phase process by Moiseev et al. (1960), the active c ytic species in both the liquid and gas-phase process has always been seen to be some form of palladium acetate [Nakamura et al, 1971 Augustine and Blitz, 1993]. Many co-catalysts which help to enhance the productivity or selectivity of the catalyst have appeared in the literature over the years. The most notable promoters being gold (Au) [Sennewald et al., 1971 Bissot, 1977], cadmium acetate (Cd(OAc)j) [Hoechst, 1967], and potassium acetate (KOAc) [Sennewald et al., 1971 Bissot, 1977]. 

Figure 5.26 Catalytic activity of a UV-decomposed palladium acetate catalyst. Nitrobenzene conversion ( ) aniline selectivity ( ) [60].

Interestingly, the Pd/PDMP catalyst is more active than commercially available homogeneous and heterogeneous palladium catalysts, such as palladium acetate and palladium on charcoal, respectively, as shown in Table 3. 

Palladium acetate in conjunction with a diphosphine ligand, xantphos, is active for arylation of amides, ureas, oxazolidinones and sulfonamides.174... 

In a related study, Srivastava and Collibee employed polymer-supported triphenyl-phosphine in palladium-catalyzed cyanations [142]. Commercially available resin-bound triphenylphosphine was admixed with palladium(II) acetate in N,N-dimethyl-formamide in order to generate the heterogeneous catalytic system. The mixture was stirred for 2 h under nitrogen atmosphere in a sealed microwave reaction vessel, to achieve complete formation of the active palladium-phosphine complex. The septum was then removed and equimolar amounts of zinc(II) cyanide and the requisite aryl halide were added. After purging with nitrogen and resealing, the vessel was transferred to the microwave reactor and irradiated at 140 °C for 30-50 min... 

Reactions that involve significant bond formation in the ratedetermining step are in general expected to exhibit large and negative volumes of activation. This was for instance found for a series of cyclometallation reactions of benzylidenebenzylamines, -anilines, and -propylamine with palladium acetate in toluene and acetic acid solution (171, 172). The cyclometallated compounds are formed via C-H electrophilic bond activation to produce different types of metalla-... 

Under optimum reaction conditions (See Table IV.), selectivity to linear dimer is controlled by the choice of temperature, solvent and tertiary phosphine. Toluene and tetrahydrofuran are the best solvents. Temperatures between 25 to 60 C with a triphenyl or tributylphosphine/palladium acetate catalyst give linear dimer selectivities in the 80 s. At 25 C in toluene, a palladium acetate/tributylphosphine catalyst gave 98.7% conversion and 89.6% linear, 4.7% branched, 1.9% cyclic, and 3.8% heavies selectivity. The linear dimerization reaction was second order in diene with a 3.6 Kcal/mole activation energy. 

A similar approach was taken for the synthesis of 45 by Miyaura. " Shaughnessy and Booth synthesized the water-soluble alkylphosphine 46, and found it to provide very active palladium catalysts for the reaction of aryl bromides or chlorides with boronic acids. The more sterically demanding ligand 47 was shown to promote the reactions of aryl chlorides with better results than 46. Najera and co-workers recently reported on the synthesis of di(2-pyridyl)-methylamine-palladium dichloride complexes 48a and 48b, and their use in the coupling of a variety of electrophiles (aryl bromides or chlorides, allyl chlorides, acetates or carbonates) with alkyl- or arylboronic acids very low catalyst loadings at Palladium-oxime catalysts 8a and 8b) have also been developed. In conjunction with... 

The Suzuki coupling of aryl halides was also extended to tosylates recently. Benzothiazole 5-tosylate reacted with m-xylene-2-boronic acid (6.13.) to give the coupled product in 94% yield using palladium acetate and a stericly congested biphenyl based phosphine ligand as catalyst.17 Another class of less commonly utilised cross-coupling partners are methyltio derivatives. In the presence of a copper salt, which activates the carbon-sulphur bond, 2-methyltio-benzotiazol coupled readily with a series of arylboronic acids.18... 

The Heck reactions depicted so far all involve the coupling of halopyridines and other olefins. The alternate approach, coupling of a vinylpyridine with an aryl halide is also feasible, although less commonly employed. 4-Vinylpyridine was coupled successfully with diethyl 4-bromobenzylphosphonate (7.50.) in the presence of a highly active catalyst system consisting of palladium acetate and tn-o-tolylphosphine to give the desired product in 89% yield, which was used for grafting the pyridine moiety onto metal oxides.70... 

It is now possible to understand the curious phenomenon whereby the reaction of palladium acetate with I in vacuo first rapidly produces a metal precipitate and then slows at about 20% conversion and finally stops with much of the palladium (II) unreacted. These stages in the reaction correspond to oxidation first by Pd3(OAc)6 and then by IVa with ultimate formation of the inert species Va. A complex mixture of hexenyl acetates is formed in the oxidation of which the major constituent l-hexen-2-yl acetate (VI) is 0.68 mole fraction of the whole mixture. Overall the mixture is closely similar to that obtained in the catalytic reactions of 02 described later, suggesting that the same active palladium-containing species is involved. Much of I is isomerized to a 5 1 mixture of trans- and ds-2-hexene (85% at 6 hrs) with only 3% each of the 3-hexene isomers. This aspect of the selectivity problem in which only one shift of the double bond takes place is also reproduced in the catalytic reaction, but oxygen suppresses the rate of isomerization relative to oxidation. 

The olefinic substitution reaction may also be effected in some instances by using a palladium(II) salt and an aromatic compound instead of an organic halide. Palladium(II) salts are apparently able to metallate some aromatic hydrocarbons directly. The reaction succeeds best with aromatics activated with electron-supplying substituents producing, with certain olefinic compounds, vinylically substituted products. For example, benzene and styrene with palladium acetate in boiling acetic acid produce stilbene in 90% yield (37). 

Methods (i) and (ii) require palladium(II) salts as reactants. Either palladium acetate, palladium chloride or lithium tetrachloropalladate(II) usually are used. These salts may also be used as catalysts in method (iii) but need to be reduced in situ to become active. The reduction usually occurs spontaneously in reactions carried out at 100 °C but may be slow or inefficient at lower temperatures. In these cases, zero valent complexes such as bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladium(0) or tetrakis(triphenylphos-phine)palladium(O) may be used, or a reducing agent such as sodium borohydride, formic acid or hydrazine may be added to reaction mixtures containing palladium(II) salts to initiate the reactions. Triarylphosphines are usually added to the palladium catalysts in method (iii), but not in methods (i) or (ii). Normally, 2 equiv. of triphenylphosphine, or better, tri-o-tolylphosphine, are added per mol of the palladium compound. Larger amounts may be necessary in reactions where palladium metal tends to precipitate prematurely from the reaction mixtures. Large concentrations of phosphines are to be avoided, however, since they usually inhibit the reactions. 

Aryl chlorides Aryl chlorides will substitute alkenes only under very special conditions, and then catalyst turnover numbers are generally not very high. Palladium on charcoal in the presence of triethylphos-phine catalyzes the reaction of chlorobenzene with styrene,58 but the catalyst becomes inactive after one use.59 Examples employing an activated aryl chloride and highly reactive alkenes, such as acrylonitrile, with a palladium acetate-triphenylphosphine catalyst in DMF solution at ISO C with sodium acetate as base react to the extent of only 51% or less.60 Similar results have been reported for the combination of chlorobenzene with styrene in DMF-water at 130 C, using sodium acetate as the base and palladium acetate-diphos as a catalyst.61 Most recently, a method for reacting chlorobenzene with activated alkenes has been claimed where, in addition to the usual palladium dibenzilideneacetone-tri-o-tolylphosphine catalyst, nickel bromide and sodium iodide are added. It is proposed that an equilibrium concentration of iodobenzene is formed from the chlorobenzene-sodium iodide-nickel bromide catalyst and the iodoben-zene then reacts in the palladium-catalyzed alkene substitution. Moderate to good yields were reported from reactions carried out in DMF solution at 140 C 62... 

The catalyst The amount of catalyst required in an aryl bromide or iodide alkene substitution varies widely with the reactants and the reaction conditions. Most examples reported have used 1-2 mol % of palladium salt relative to the aryl halide, but much lower amounts are sufficient in some instances. In an extreme case, where very reactive p-nitrobromobenzene was added to the very active alkene, ethyl acrylate and sodium acetate was the base in DMF solution at 130 C with a palladium acetate-tri-o-tolylphos-phine catalyst in 6 h the palladium turned over 134 000 times and ethyl p-nitrocinnamate was obtained in 67% yield.63... 

Palladium acetate and triphenylphosphine generate the active tri- or tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0) catalyst on addition of sodium dimethyl malonate. 

The EMCR has been extended from obtaining enantiomerically pure alcohols to obtaining such amines. Prochiral ketoximes were transformed to optically active amine acetates in a coupled CALB/palladium catalysis in the presence of an acyl donor at 1 atm hydrogen (Figure 18.15) (Choi, 2001). 

A highly regioselective hydroselenation of terminal alkynes RC=CII with benzene-selenol (PhSeH) can be achieved in the presence of palladium acetate as catalyst in pyridine, giving rise to the corresponding terminal alkenes R(PhSe)CH=CH2 as the sole products. Here, the pyridine is believed to serve as a ligand for active palladium intermediates.67... 

A few recent examples of related C-C bond-forming reactions, all involving a palladium-catalyzed C-H activation step at arenes, will be mentioned. Salts are produced in these reactions, or acetic acid, as in the first example. Allylation of indoles at the 3-position was achieved by using palladium acetate, and bipyridine and allylic acetates as the reactants (Scheme 5) [19]. 

In 2006, Yu et al. combined pyridinyl-directed C-H activation and C-C bond formation with alkylboronic acids (see Section 10.5.4.2).23 The success of this transformation relied on the combination of palladium acetate (10 mol%), benzoquinone (1 equiv), and silver oxide or carbonate (0.5 equiv) in a protic solvent, but an excess of boronic acid (3 equiv) was required (Scheme 10.9). Interestingly, in this reaction silver oxide played a dual role as promoter for the transmetallation step and as cooxidant with benzoquinone. 

Such an arylation reactioncanneverthelessberendered regioselectiveifcoordinating atoms are present in the starting molecule at the appropriate position, directing the C-H activation at this position. Thus, 2-arylbenzoxazoles have been regioselectively arylated in the presence of palladium acetate and silver acetate (Scheme 10.54).86... 

Figure 16.35 (part I) shows how palladium(II) acetate, triphenylphosphane and water react to furnish the complex F as the active palladium(O) catalyst. For a long time, the presence of water had not been suspected as a solvent contaminant. It was unknown that it is essential for initiating the reaction process. In the mid-1990s, Amatore and Jutand demonstrated that the reduction Pd(II) —> Pd(0), which is involved in the formation of F, is effected by a tri-... 

Heating of the N,N-diarylamines with palladium(II) acetate in acetic acid at reflux results in smooth oxidative cyclization to the corresponding carbazole derivatives. A variety of substituents are tolerated in different positions. Thus, this procedure has found many applications in organic syntheses [30,55]. However, the drawback is that stoichiometric amounts of palladium(II) are required, as one equivalent of palla-dium(O) is formed in the final reductive elimination step. In the Wacker process, regeneration of the catalytically active palladium(II) species is achieved by oxidation of palladium(O) to palladium(II) with a copper(II) salt [57]. We were the first to demonstrate that oxidative regeneration of the catalytically active palladium(II)... 

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