Alkane metathesis tandem, dual-catalytic systems

Alkane Metathesis by Tandem, Dual-Catalytic Systems... 

Chapter 5. For this investigation, two approaches were studied (i) tandem alkane metathesis systems with either partial catalyst immobilization or both catalysts on the heterogeneous phase and (ii) a tandem, dual-catalytic system in which both catalysts independently operate at different reaction temperatures. 

In this section, the tandem system comprising of two catalysts for the alkane metathesis reaction will be discussed one catalyst for the dehydrogena-tion/hydrogenation steps and another one for the olefin metathesis step. In contrast to the multifunctional, single-catalyst systems, there are only a few reports that describe tandem, dual-catalyst systems for the alkane metathesis reaction [100]. Herein, the Chevron system will be discussed [8], followed by the recent development of another dual-catalytic system developed by Goldman and Brookhart [18]. 

The discovery of the (de)hydrogenation steps using transition metals, in particular, the iridium pincer complexes, was essential to the success of this tandem, dualalkane metathesis reaction. As such, efforts made to improve these Ir catalytic systems will first be discussed. Subsequently, the application of these catalysts to the tandem, dual-alkane metathesis reaction will be elaborated. 

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