Alkenes catalytic reactions

The most useful reaction of Pd is a catalytic reaction, which can be carried out with only a small amount of expensive Pd compounds. The catalytic cycle for the Pd(0) catalyst, which is understood by the combination of the aforementioned reactions, is possible by reductive elimination to generate Pd(0), The Pd(0) thus generated undergoes oxidative addition and starts another catalytic cycle. A Pd(0) catalytic species is also regenerated by /3-elimination to form Pd—H which is followed by the insertion of the alkene to start the new catalytic cycle. These relationships can be expressed as shown. 

A rational classification of reactions based on mechanistic considerations is essential for the better understanding of such a broad research field as that of the organic chemistry of Pd. Therefore, as was done in my previous book, the organic reactions of Pd are classified into stoichiometric and catalytic reactions. It is essential to form a Pd—C cr-bond for a synthetic reaction. The Pd— C (T-bond is formed in two ways depending on the substrates. ir-Bond formation from "unoxidized forms [1] of alkenes and arenes (simple alkenes and arenes) leads to stoichiometric reactions, and that from oxidized forms of alkenes and arenes (typically halides) leads to catalytic reactions. We first consider how these two reactions differ. 

Palladation of aromatic compounds with Pd(OAc)2 gives the arylpalladium acetate 25 as an unstable intermediate (see Chapter 3, Section 5). A similar complex 26 is formed by the transmetallation of PdX2 with arylmetal compounds of main group metals such as Hg Those intermediates which have the Pd—C cr-bonds react with nucleophiles or undergo alkene insertion to give oxidized products and Pd(0) as shown below. Hence, these reactions proceed by consuming stoichiometric amounts of Pd(II) compounds, which are reduced to the Pd(0) state. Sometimes, but not always, the reduced Pd(0) is reoxidized in situ to the Pd(II) state. In such a case, the whole oxidation process becomes a catalytic cycle with regard to the Pd(II) compounds. This catalytic reaction is different mechanistically, however, from the Pd(0)-catalyzed reactions described in the next section. These stoichiometric and catalytic reactions are treated in Chapter 3. 

Reactions of another class are catalyzed by Pd(II) compounds which act as Lewis acids, and are treated in Chapter 5 and partly in Chapter 4. From the above-mentioned explanation, the reactions catalyzed by Pd(0) and Pd(II) are clearly different mechanistically. In this book the stoichiometric and catalytic reactions are classified further according to reacting substrates. However, this classification has some problems, viz. it leads to separate treatment of some unit reactions in different chapters. The carbonylation of alkenes is an example. Oxidative carbonylation of alkenes is treated in Chapter 3 and hydrocar-bonylation in Chapter 4. 

TT-Aliylpalladium chloride reacts with a soft carbon nucleophile such as mal-onate and acetoacetate in DMSO as a coordinating solvent, and facile carbon-carbon bond formation takes place[l2,265], This reaction constitutes the basis of both stoichiometric and catalytic 7r-allylpalladium chemistry. Depending on the way in which 7r-allylpalladium complexes are prepared, the reaction becomes stoichiometric or catalytic. Preparation of the 7r-allylpalladium complexes 298 by the oxidative addition of Pd(0) to various allylic compounds (esters, carbonates etc.), and their reactions with nucleophiles, are catalytic, because Pd(0) is regenerated after the reaction with the nucleophile, and reacts again with allylic compounds. These catalytic reactions are treated in Chapter 4, Section 2. On the other hand, the preparation of the 7r-allyl complexes 299 from alkenes requires Pd(II) salts. The subsequent reaction with the nucleophile forms Pd(0). The whole process consumes Pd(ll), and ends as a stoichiometric process, because the in situ reoxidation of Pd(0) is hardly attainable. These stoichiometric reactions are treated in this section. 

Several Pd(0) complexes are effective catalysts of a variety of reactions, and these catalytic reactions are particularly useful because they are catalytic without adding other oxidants and proceed with catalytic amounts of expensive Pd compounds. These reactions are treated in this chapter. Among many substrates used for the catalytic reactions, organic halides and allylic esters are two of the most widely used, and they undergo facile oxidative additions to Pd(0) to form complexes which have o-Pd—C bonds. These intermediate complexes undergo several different transformations. Regeneration of Pd(0) species in the final step makes the reaction catalytic. These reactions of organic halides except allylic halides are treated in Section 1 and the reactions of various allylic compounds are surveyed in Section 2. Catalytic reactions of dienes, alkynes. and alkenes are treated in other sections. These reactions offer unique methods for carbon-carbon bond formation, which are impossible by other means. 

Among several propargylic derivatives, the propargylic carbonates 3 were found to be the most reactive and they have been used most extensively because of their high reactivity[2,2a]. The allenylpalladium methoxide 4, formed as an intermediate in catalytic reactions of the methyl propargylic carbonate 3, undergoes two types of transformations. One is substitution of cr-bonded Pd. which proceeds by either insertion or transmetallation. The insertion of an alkene, for example, into the Pd—C cr-bond and elimination of/i-hydrogen affords the allenyl compound 5 (1.2,4-triene). Alkene and CO insertions are typical. The substitution of Pd methoxide with hard carbon nucleophiles or terminal alkynes in the presence of Cul takes place via transmetallation to yield the allenyl compound 6. By these reactions, various allenyl derivatives can be prepared. 

Butyrolactones are prepared by intramolecular reaction of haloallylic 2-alkynoates. The a-chloromethylenebutyrolactone 301 is prepared by the intramolecular reaction of300[150,151]. 4 -Hydroxy-2 -alkenyl 2-alkynoates can be used instead of haloallylic 2-alkynoates, and in this reaction, Pd(II) is regenerated by elimination of the hydroxy group[152]. As a related reaction, the q-(chloromethylene)-7-butyrolactone 304 is obtained from the cinnamyl 2-alkynoate 302 in the presence of LiCl and CuCbflSS]. Isohinokinin (305) has been synthesized by this reaction[l 54]. The reaction is explained by chloro-palladation of the triple bond, followed by intramolecular alkene insertion to generate the alkylpalladium chloride 303. Then PdCb is regenerated by attack of CuCb on the alkylpalladium bond as a key step in the catalytic reaction. 

Oxidative reactions of alkenes with Pd(II) are treated in Chapter 3,. Section 2, catalytic reactions of alkenes with organic halides are discussed in this chapter. Section 1.1, and other catalytic reactions of alkenes are discussed in this section. 

The reverse reaction (formation of metal alkyls by addition of alkenes to M-H) is the basis of several important catalytic reactions such as alkene hydrogenation, hydroformylation, hydroboration, and isomerization. A good example of decomposition by y3-elimination is the first-order intramolecular reaction ... 

Several titanium(IV) complexes are efficient and reliable Lewis acid catalysts and they have been applied to numerous reactions, especially in combination with the so-called TADDOL (a, a,a, a -tetraaryl-l,3-dioxolane-4,5-dimethanol) (22) ligands [53-55]. In the first study on normal electron-demand 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions between nitrones and alkenes, which appeared in 1994, the catalytic reaction of a series of chiral TiCl2-TADDOLates on the reaction of nitrones 1 with al-kenoyloxazolidinones 19 was developed (Scheme 6.18) [56]. These substrates have turned out be the model system of choice for most studies on metal-catalyzed normal electron-demand 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of nitrones as it will appear from this chapter. When 10 mol% of the catalyst 23a was applied in the reaction depicted in Scheme 6.18 the reaction proceeded to give a yield of up to 94% ee after 20 h. The reaction led primarily to exo-21 and in the best case an endo/ exo ratio of 10 90 was obtained. The chiral information of the catalyst was transferred with a fair efficiency to the substrates as up to 60% ee of one of the isomers of exo3 was obtained [56]. 

The synthetic utility of the alkene metathesis reaction may in some cases be limited because of the formation of a mixture of products. The steps of the catalytic cycle are equilibrium processes, with the yields being determined by the thermodynamic equilibrium. The metathesis process generally tends to give complex mixtures of products. For example, pent-2-ene 8 disproportionates to give, at equilibrium, a statistical mixture of but-2-enes, pent-2-enes and hex-3-enes ... 

The distribution of the products obtained from this reaction depends upon the reaction temperature (Figure 5.1-4) and differs from those of other poly(ethene) recycling reactions in that aromatics and alkenes are not formed in significant concentrations. Another significant difference is that this ionic liquid reaction occurs at temperatures as low as 90 °C, whereas conventional catalytic reactions require much higher temperatures, typically 300-1000 °C [100]. A patent filed for the Secretary of State for Defence (UK) has reported a similar cracking reaction for lower molecular weight hydrocarbons in chloroaluminate(III) ionic liquids [101]. An... 

The catalytic asymmetric cyclopropanation of an alkene, a reaction which was studied as early as 1966 by Nozaki and Noyori,63 is used in a commercial synthesis of ethyl (+)-(lS)-2,2-dimethylcyclo-propanecarboxylate (18) by the Sumitomo Chemical Company (see Scheme 5).64 In Aratani s Sumitomo Process, ethyl diazoacetate is decomposed in the presence of isobutene (16) and a catalytic amount of the dimeric chiral copper complex 17. Compound 18, produced in 92 % ee, is a key intermediate in Merck s commercial synthesis of cilastatin (19). The latter compound is a reversible... 

In the same spirit DFT studies on peroxo-complexes in titanosilicalite-1 catalyst were performed [3]. This topic was selected since Ti-containing porous silicates exhibited excellent catalytic activities in the oxidation of various organic compounds in the presence of hydrogen peroxide under mild conditions. Catalytic reactions include epoxidation of alkenes, oxidation of alkanes, alcohols, amines, hydroxylation of aromatics, and ammoximation of ketones. The studies comprised detailed analysis of the activated adsorption of hydrogen peroxide with... 

As mentioned in Section 3.2, hydrogenation is by far the most investigated catalytic reaction and palladium the most commonly employed metal, followed by platinum. The most common substrates for catalytic hydrogenation tests are simple alkenes, cyclic alkenes and unsaturated carbonylic compounds. In the latter case, conjugated substrates (a,P-unsaturated aldehydes, acrylic acid) have received particular attention. 

This method ensures the deposition of very reactive metal nanoparticles that require no activation steps before use. We shall review here the following examples of catalytic reactions that are of interest in line chemical synthesis (a) the hydrogenation of substituted arenes, (b) the selective hydrogenation of a, 3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, (c) the arylation of alkenes with aryl halides (Heck reaction). The efficiency and selectivity of commercial catalysts and of differently prepared nanosized metal systems will be compared. 

Because organophosphorus compounds are important in the chemical industry and in biology, many methods have been developed for their synthesis [1]. This chapter reviews the formation of phosphorus-carbon (P-C) bonds by the metal-catalyzed addition of phosphorus-hydrogen (P-H) bonds to unsaturated substrates, such as alkenes, alkynes, aldehydes, and imines. Section 5.2 covers reactions of P(lll) substrates (hydrophosphination), and Section 5.3 describes P(V) chemistry (hydrophosphorylation, hydrophosphinylation, hydrophosphonylation). Scheme 5-1 shows some examples of these catalytic reactions. 

The most widely used method for adding the elements of hydrogen to carbon-carbon double bonds is catalytic hydrogenation. Except for very sterically hindered alkenes, this reaction usually proceeds rapidly and cleanly. The most common catalysts are various forms of transition metals, particularly platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, and nickel. Both the metals as finely dispersed solids or adsorbed on inert supports such as carbon or alumina (heterogeneous catalysts) and certain soluble complexes of these metals (homogeneous catalysts) exhibit catalytic activity. Depending upon conditions and catalyst, other functional groups are also subject to reduction under these conditions. 

Syn-Dihydroxylation. When the reaction was first discovered, the syn-dihydroxylation of alkenes was carried out by using a stoichiometric amount of osmium tetroxide in dry organic solvent.56 Hoffman made the observation that alkenes could react with chlorate salts as the primary oxidants together with a catalytic quantity of osmium tetroxide, yielding syn-vicinal diols (Eq. 3.11). This catalytic reaction is usually carried out in an aqueous and tetrahydrofuran solvent mixture, and silver or barium chlorate generally give better yields.57... 

Attempts have been made to exploit the intrinsic C2 symmetry of the phenolate-based dinickel core in enantioselective catalytic reactions. Therefore, enantiomerically pure C2-symmetric ligands such as (736a) and the corresponding dinickel systems (736b) have been prepared ( Equation (27)),1890 and (736b) was tested in the epoxidation of unfunctionalized alkenes with sodium hypochlorite as the oxidant. The catalytic reaction was found to be highly pH dependent with an optimum at a pH of 9. While the complex is catalytically active, significant enantioselectivity was not achieved. 

The disilanickela complex 21 is an effective catalyst for the double silylation of some alkenes. Thus, reaction of 11 with 2 equiv. of4-vinylanisole in the presence of a catalytic amount of 21 afforded a moderate yield of the five-membered disilylene compound 30. However, treatment of 11 with 1.2 equiv. of 1,1-diphenylethylene in the presence of a catalytic amount of 21 gave five-membered disilylene ring compound 31, which contained a saturated side chain. 

In catalytic reaction conditions (H2 pressure), by interaction of a solvent such as THF or acetone, the 16-electron cationic [Rh(diphos)(NBD)]+ affords a 12-electron unsaturated diphosphine intermediate, which is the real active species. The catalytic cycle begins with alkene binding, followed by oxidative addition of H2. These cationic catalysts can reduce alkenes to... 

The stereoselectivity obtained in hydrogenation of an enone can be due to the formation of an intermediate in which alkene, hydrogen, and alcohol groups bind simultaneously to the metal (Equation (5)). This kind of stereoselectivity is typical in catalytic reactions where a polar group resides near to a C=C bond. 

The trinuclear cluster [(/i-H)2Ru3(/i3-0)(C0)5(DPPM)2] is also an efficient catalyst for alkene hydrogenation reaction, for which Bergounhou proposed the catalytic Scheme 73.38... 

If the more activated alkene 2-vinylpyridine is used in place of styrene with the same catalysts and the same range of substrates, anti-Markovnikoff hydroamination is also found. Thus, N-[2-(2 -pyridyl)ethyl]piperidine was isolated in 53% yield from reaction of 2-vinylpyridine with piperidine in the presence of [Rh(COD)2]+/2PPh3 under reflux. N H addition was observed with other amines, the remaining product in all cases being primarily that from oxidative amination (Table 12). When the catalytic reaction was run in the absence of phosphine, the yield of hydroamination product increased dramatically.171... 

Metallacyclobutanes have been proposed as intermediates in a number of catalytic reactions, and model studies with isolated transition metallacyclobutanes have played a large part in demonstrating the plausibility of the proposed mechanisms. Since the mechanisms of heterogeneously catalysed reactions are especially difficult to determine by direct study, model studies are particularly valuable. This article describes results which may be relevant to the mechanisms of isomerization of alkanes over metallic platinum by the bond shift process and of the oligomerization or polymerization of alkenes. 

Schrock has proposed that the reverse reaction occurs during some catalytic alkene dimerisation reactions (20) but, in studies of decomposition of alkyl substituted platinacyclobutanes, no... 

Various other biphasic solutions to the separation problem are considered in other chapters of this book, but an especially attractive alternative was introduced by Horvath and co-workers in 1994.[1] He coined the term catalysis in the fluorous biphase and the process uses the temperature dependent miscibility of fluorinated solvents (organic solvents in which most or all of the hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine atoms) with normal organic solvents, to provide a possible answer to the biphasic hydroformylation of long-chain alkenes. At temperatures close to the operating temperature of many catalytic reactions (60-120°C), the fluorous and organic solvents mix, but at temperatures near ambient they phase separate cleanly. Since that time, many other reactions have been demonstrated under fluorous biphasic conditions and these form the basis of this chapter. The subject has been comprehensively reviewed, [2-6] so this chapter gives an overview and finishes with some process considerations. 

The chain-carrying catalytic species of alkene-polymerization reactions is commonly a tri-coordinate group 4 transition-metal cation of the general form L2M+P , where P is the polyalkene chain. A family of commercially important examples is based on the complex titanium ion57... 

The most fundamental reaction is the alkylation of benzene with ethene.38,38a-38c Arylation of inactivated alkenes with inactivated arenes proceeds with the aid of a binuclear Ir(m) catalyst, [Ir(/x-acac-0,0,C3)(acac-0,0)(acac-C3)]2, to afford anti-Markovnikov hydroarylation products (Equation (33)). The iridium-catalyzed reaction of benzene with ethene at 180 °G for 3 h gives ethylbenzene (TN = 455, TOF = 0.0421 s 1). The reaction of benzene with propene leads to the formation of /z-propylbenzene and isopropylbenzene in 61% and 39% selectivities (TN = 13, TOF = 0.0110s-1). The catalytic reaction of the dinuclear Ir complex is shown to proceed via the formation of a mononuclear bis-acac-0,0 phenyl-Ir(m) species.388 The interesting aspect is the lack of /3-hydride elimination from the aryliridium intermediates giving the olefinic products. The reaction of substituted arenes with olefins provides a mixture of regioisomers. For example, the reaction of toluene with ethene affords m- and />-isomers in 63% and 37% selectivity, respectively. 

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