Additions alcohols, palladium chloride

Alkenes can be converted to succinic esters by reaction with carbon monoxide, an alcohol, and palladium chloride in the presence of mercuric chloride.1,12 The addition is mostly syn. In similar reaction, both terminal and internal alkynes can be converted to esters of maleic acid. 

Abnormal olefin arylation reactions which are of interest mechanistically and preparatively occur with some allylically substituted compounds. The ailylic esters and ethers appear normal and produce cinnamyl derivatives exclusively while ailylic alcohols and chlorides are abnormal. Ailylic alcohols and "arylpalladium acetates form 3-arylaldehydes from primary ailylic alcohols and 3-arylketones from secondary alcohols 3°). The mechanism of reaction apparently involves anti-Markovnikov addition of the palladium compound to the double bond followed by elimination of the hydrogen atom on the hydroxyl-bearing carbon rather than the benzylic hydrogen. This again would be elimination of the more electronegative hydrogen atom. 

Estimation.—Palladium may be estimated gravimetrically by addition of potassium chloride and alcohol to a concentrated solution of palladium chloride in hydrochloric acid. The brown precipitate of potassium chlor-palladite is collected, ignited, the potassium chloride washed out, and the residual palladium weighed as metal. -... 

Electron micrographs have provided additional information available about the palladium-polyvinyl alcohol catalysts. As has been mentioned, they established that palladium chloride is reduced to palladium in the presence of an aqueous suspension of polyvinyl alcohol. Further electron micrographs established that the palladium (12) and also rhodium are... 

As early as 1963, Tsuji and colleagues described the reaction of olefin-palladium chloride complexes with CO to produce jS-chloroacyl chlorides [1,2]. Both internal and terminal aliphatic olefins were transformed into the corresponding chloroesters when the reaction was conducted in alcohols. Later on, in 1969, Yukawa and Tsutsumi reported on the reaction of a styrene-palladium complex with CO in alcohols [3]. Here, various cinnamates and phenylsuccinates were synthesized. Compared with Tsuji s work, they proposed a different reaction mechanism. They assumed that the oxidative addition of the alkyloxycarbonyl groups into styrenes is the key step, but a stoichiometric amount of palladium was stiU necessary to perform the reaction. Another version of a dialkoxycarbonylation of olefins was reported by Heck [4], using mercuric chloride as additive. 

When the light yellow alcoholic solution of / -nitrosodiphenylamine (I) is added to neutral or slightly acid solutions of palladium salts, a dark purplish brown precipitate appears which contains the reaction partners in the ratio 2 1. This may involve the production of an addition compound, in which the nitrogen atom of the imido group or the oxygen or nitrogen atom of the nitroso group of the nitrosoamine may function as the coordination position. Consequently, the structures (II), (Ila), and (Ilb) may be involved in the palladium chloride addition compound ... 

Kostic et al. recently reported the use of various palladium(II) aqua complexes as catalysts for the hydration of nitriles.456 crossrefil. 34 Reactivity of coordination These complexes, some of which are shown in Figure 36, also catalyze hydrolytic cleavage of peptides, decomposition of urea to carbon dioxide and ammonia, and alcoholysis of urea to ammonia and various carbamate esters.420-424, 427,429,456,457 Qggj-jy palladium(II) aqua complexes are versatile catalysts for hydrolytic reactions. Their catalytic properties arise from the presence of labile water or other solvent ligands which can be displaced by a substrate. In many cases the coordinated substrate becomes activated toward nucleophilic additions of water/hydroxide or alcohols. New palladium(II) complexes cis-[Pd(dtod)Cl2] and c - Pd(dtod)(sol)2]2+ contain the bidentate ligand 3,6-dithiaoctane-l,8-diol (dtod) and unidentate ligands, chloride anions, or the solvent (sol) molecules. The latter complex is an efficient catalyst for the hydration and methanolysis of nitriles, reactions shown in Equation (3) 435... 

If the side chain with the nucleophile is situated in the 1-position of the conjugated diene, a palladium-catalyzed spirocyclization occurs. In this case stereoselective oxa-spirocyclizations were obtained from the diene alcohols 59 and 60 (equation 23 -25)58. The reaction worked well for the formation of a tetrahydrofuran and tetrahydropyran in the spirocyclization. In the absence of chloride ions 59 gave high yields of the acetoxy oxaspirocyclic compound 61 via a 1,4-anti addition across the diene (equation 23). In the presence of stoichiometric amounts of LiCl a 1,4-syn oxychlorination took place and allylic chloride 62 was obtained (equation 24). Under chloride-free conditions, cyclohep-tadiene alcohol 60 afforded oxaspirocyclic acetate 63 (equation 25). 

Carbon monoxide rapidly inserts into the carbon—zirconium bond of alkyl- and alkenyl-zirconocene chlorides at low temperature with retention of configuration at carbon to give acylzirconocene chlorides 17 (Scheme 3.5). Acylzirconocene chlorides have found utility in synthesis, as described elsewhere in this volume [17]. Lewis acid catalyzed additions to enones, aldehydes, and imines, yielding a-keto allylic alcohols, a-hydroxy ketones, and a-amino ketones, respectively [18], and palladium-catalyzed addition to alkyl/aryl halides and a,[5-ynones [19] are examples. The acyl complex 18 formed by the insertion of carbon monoxide into dialkyl, alkylaryl, or diaryl zirconocenes may rearrange to a r 2-ketone complex 19 either thermally (particularly when R1 = R2 = Ph) or on addition of a Lewis acid [5,20,21]. The rearrangement proceeds through the less stable... 

The mechanism of the Zn chloride-assisted, palladium-catalyzed reaction of allyl acetate (456) with carbonyl compounds (457) has been proposed [434]. The reaction involves electroreduction of a Pd(II) complex to a Pd(0) complex, oxidative addition of the allyl acetate to the Pd(0) complex, and Zn(II)/Pd(II) transmetallation leading to an allylzinc reagent, which would react with (457) to give homoallyl alcohols (458) and (459) (Scheme 157). Substituted -lactones are electrosynthesized by the Reformatsky reaction of ketones and ethyl a-bromobutyrate, using a sacrificial Zn anode in 35 92% yield [542]. The effect of cathode materials involving Zn, C, Pt, Ni, and so on, has been investigated for the electrochemical allylation of acetone [543]. 

The synthesis of succinic acid derivatives, /3-alkoxy esters, and a,j3-unsaturated esters from olefins by palladium catalyzed carbonylation reactions in alcohol have been reported (24, 25, 26, 27), but full experimental details of the syntheses are incomplete and in most cases the yields of yS-alkoxy ester and diester products are low. A similar reaction employing stoichiometric amounts of palladium (II) has also been reported (28). In order to explore the scope of this reaction for the syntheses of yS-alkoxy esters and succinic acid derivatives, representative cyclic and acyclic olefins were carbonylated under these same conditions (Table I). The reactions were carried out in methanol at room temperature using catalytic amounts of palladium (II) chloride and stoichiometric amounts of copper (II) chloride under 2 atm of carbon monoxide. The methoxypalladation reaction of 1-pentene affords a good conversion (55% ) of olefin to methyl 3-methoxyhexanoate, the product of Markov-nikov addition. In the carbonylation of other 1-olefins, f3-methoxy methyl esters were obtained in high yields however, substitution of a methyl group on the double bond reduced the yield of ester markedly. For example, the carbonylation of 2-methyl-l-butene afforded < 10% yield of methyl 3-methyl-3-methoxypentanoate. This suggests that unsubstituted 1-olefins may be preferentially carbonylated in the presence of substituted 1-olefins or internal olefins. The reactivities of the olefins fall in the order RCH =CHo ]> ci -RCH=CHR > trans-RCH =CHR >... 

Tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)-palladium(O), 289 Tin(IV) chloride, 300 Trimethylamine N-oxide, 325 Zinc amalgam, 347 Homoallylic alcohols By addition reactions of allyl to carbonyl groups... 

Dicarboxylation reactions of alkenes can be carried out such that predominately 1,2-addition of the two ester functions occurs (equation 61). The reaction takes place under mild conditions (1-3 bar, 25 C) in alcohol. It is stoichiometric in palladium, since the palladium(II) catalyst is reduced to palladium(O) in the process, but by use of an oxidant (stoichiometric copper chloride or catalytic copper chloride plus oxygen equation 62 and 63) the reaction becomes catalytic in palladium. In the reoxidation process, water is generated and the build-up of water increases the water gas shift reaction at the expense of the carboxylation. Thus a water scavenger such as triethyl orthoformate is necessary for a smooth reaction. 

The carbanion is trapped with iodine to give 42. which makes a further functionali/aiion possible. Conversion of vinylic iodide 42 into a lactone is accomplished by palladium-cataly/ed carbonyla-tion under Stille conditions.13 This process ean be broken down into the following elementary reactions a) Oxidative addition of Pd° to vinylic iodide 42 with formation of 43 b) An insertion reaction of carbon monoxide with creation of the pallada-acyl species 44 c) Reaction of acid-chloride equivalent 44 with the alcohol to give lactone 13. 

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