Vinylidene addition

The Step 1 product (0.12 mmol) dissolved in 1.2 ml of 1,1,2,-trichloro-1,2,2-trifluoroethane and 20 ml of distilled water were introduced into a 50 ml steel reactor equipped with a magnetic stirrer. The reactor contents were cooled with liquid nitrogen and evacuated to 1 x 10 mbar to remove trace amounts of oxygen. The reactor was next charged with 22 atm of vinylidene fluoride and the reactor temperature, raised to 57°C. Once the autoclave pressure decreased to 15 atm, additional vinylidene fluoride was added to maintain the reaction pressure at 20 atm. The polymerization was stopped after 48 hours, and the product was isolated in 90% yield. 

Vinyl group (1,2-addition) Vinylidene group t/.(-vinylene (cis 1,4-addition)... 

In addition to alcohols, some other nucleophiles such as amines and carbon nucleophiles can be used to trap the acylpalladium intermediates. The o-viny-lidene-/j-lactam 30 is prepared by the carbonylation of the 4-benzylamino-2-alkynyl methyl carbonate derivative 29[16]. The reaction proceeds using TMPP, a cyclic phosphite, as a ligand. When the amino group is protected as the p-toluenesulfonamide, the reaction proceeds in the presence of potassium carbonate, and the f>-alkynyl-/J-lactam 31 is obtained by the isomerization of the allenyl (vinylidene) group to the less strained alkyne. 

Some additional dyad fractions from the research cited in the last problem J are reported at intermediate feedstock concentrations (M = vinylidene chloride M2 = isobutylene) ... 

Poly(viaylidene fluoride) [24937-79-9] is the addition polymer of 1,1-difluoroethene [73-38-7], commonly known as vinylidene fluoride and abbreviated VDF or VF2. The formula of the repeat unit in the polymer is —CH2—CF2—. The preferred acronym for the polymer is PVDF, but the abbreviation PVF2 is also frequently used. The history and development of poly(vinyhdene fluoride) technology has been reviewed (1 3). 

In addition to homopolymers of varying molecular and particle structure, copolymers are also available commercially in which vinyl chloride is the principal monomer. Comonomers used eommercially include vinyl acetate, vinylidene chloride, propylene, acrylonitrile, vinyl isobutyl ether, and maleic, fumaric and acrylic esters. Of these the first three only are of importance to the plastics industry. The main function of introducing comonomer is to reduce the regularity of the polymer structure and thus lower the interchain forces. The polymers may therefore be proeessed at much lower temperatures and are useful in the manufacture of gramophone records and flooring compositions. 

Addition of anhydrous hydrogen chloride to vinylidene fluoride is reported to be accompanied by a hazardous (explosive) side reaction [53]. 

Propagation reactions involving the fluoro-olefins, vinyl fluoride (VF)6Q 7 vinylidene fluoride (VF2)69 7""74 and trifluoroethylene (VF3),75 show relatively poor rcgiospccificity. This poor specificity is also seen in additions of small... 

High exoselectivity in Diels-Alder addition of a-vinylidene and a-methylene-y-butyro-lactones to cyclopentadiene [98]... 

In addition, Bamford, Jenkins and coworkers (19) previously reported on the behavior of occluded radicals in the heterogeneous polymerizations of acrylonitrile, methyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate and vinylidene chloride. From their electron spin resonance studies, they concluded that the degree of occlusion was ... 

The dominant factors reversing the conventional ds-hydroboration to the trans-hydroboration are the use of alkyne in excess of catecholborane or pinacolborane and the presence of more than 1 equiv. of EtsN. The P-hydrogen in the ris-product unexpectedly does not derive from the borane reagents because a deuterium label at the terminal carbon selectively migrates to the P-carbon (Scheme 1-5). A vinylidene complex (17) [45] generated by the oxidative addition of the terminal C-H bond to the catalyst is proposed as a key intermediate of the formal trans-hydroboration. 

In 1998, Wakatsuki et al. reported the first anti-Markonikov hydration of 1-alkynes to aldehydes by an Ru(II)/phosphine catalyst. Heating 1-alkynes in the presence of a catalytic amount of [RuCljlCgHs) (phosphine)] phosphine = PPh2(QF5) or P(3-C6H4S03Na)3 in 2-propanol at 60-100°C leads to predominantly anti-Markovnikov addition of water and yields aldehydes with only a small amount of methyl ketones (Eq. 6.47) [95]. They proposed the attack of water on an intermediate ruthenium vinylidene complex. The C-C bond cleavage or decarbonylation is expected to occur as a side reaction together with the main reaction leading to aldehyde formation. Indeed, olefins with one carbon atom less were always detected in the reaction mixtures (Scheme 6-21). 

This study supports rate-determining H-OH bond breaking, which constrasts with previous reports that identified vinylidene isomerization as the key step in catalytic alkyne activation. The results indicate an enzyme-like mechanism is operative involving cooperative substrate activation by a metal center and proximal hydrogen bond donor/acceptors. In the future we will apply these principles to the activation of additional species. 

V. Formation of Hydride-Vinylidene Complexes by Addition of Terminal... 

FORMATION OF HYDRIDE-VINYLIDENE COMPLEXES BY ADDITION OF TERMINAL ALKYNES TO OsHCI(CO)(P Pr3)2... 

In favor of a dihydrogen intermediate, the following should be noted (i) the addition of HX molecules to OsHCl(CO)(P Pr3)2 is a useful synthetic route for dihydrogen compounds (vide infra), (ii) the electrophilic character of the dihydrogen complexes has been demonstrated,38 and (iii) the addition of electrophiles to metal alkynyl complexes is a general method of preparing vinylidene compounds.39... 

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