Alkyne hydroformylation

Alkene or alkyne hydroformylations followed by intramolecular amine condensations are... 

For years, the problem of hydro formylating alkynes was circumvented by performing the reaction under water-gas shift conditions or by sdylformylation. However, some authors have recently effectively used synthesis gas in alkyne hydroformylation. 

Cationic phosphine ligands containing guanidiniumphenyl moieties were originally developed in order to make use of their pronounced solubility in water [72, 73]. They were shown to form active catalytic systems in Pd-mediated C-C coupling reactions between aryl iodides and alkynes (Castro-Stephens-Sonogashira reaction) [72, 74] and Rh-catalyzed hydroformylation of olefins in aqueous two-phase systems [75]. 

Stille JK (1991) Hydroformylation and related additions of carbon monoxide to alkenes and alkynes. In Trost BM, Fleming I, Paquette LA (eds) Comprehensive organic synthesis. Pergamon, Oxford, p 913... 

In a similar way as described for the hydroformylation, the rhodium-catalyzed silaformylation can also be used in a domino process. The elementary step is the formation of an alkenyl-rhodium species by insertion of an alkyne into a Rh-Si bond (silylrhodation), which provides the trigger for a carbocyclization, followed by an insertion of CO. Thus, when Matsuda and coworkers [216] treated a solution of the 1,6-enyne 6/2-87 in benzene with the dimethylphenylsilane under CO pressure (36 kg cm"2) in the presence of catalytic amounts of Rh4(CO)12, the cyclopentane derivative 6/2-88 was obtained in 85 % yield. The procedure is not restricted to the formation of carbocycles rather, heterocycles can also be synthesized using 1,6-enynes as 6/2-89 and 6/2-90 with a heteroatom in the tether (Scheme 6/2.19). Interestingly, 6/2-91 did not lead to the domino product neither could 1,7-enynes be used as substrates, while the Thorpe-Ingold effect (geminal substitution) seems important in achieving good yields. 

In a similar manner, polymers with unsaturated chains or side chains can be converted to polyamines [66-69]. Conjugated diolefins usually undergo hydroformylation with low selectivities [70]. Mostly hydrogenation of at least one double bond occurs and mixtures of various saturated and unsaturated amines and diamines are obtained [71]. Similar to alkenes also alkynes may serve as unsaturated compounds in hydro aminomethylation reaction sequences. Although synthetically attractive, only a few investigations towards hydroformylation and hydroaminomethylation of alkynes in the presence of N-nuclcophilcs are known. Usually a preferred transformation to furanonic derivatives is observed under hydroformylation conditions [27]. 

Silylformylation, defined as the addition of RsSi- and -CHO across various types of bonds using a silane R3SiH, CO, and a transition metal catalyst, was discovered by Murai and co-workers, who developed the Co2(CO)8-catalyzed silylformylation of aldehydes, epoxides, and cyclic ethers [26]. More recently, as described in detail in Section 5.3.1, below, alkynes and alkenes have been successfully developed as silylformylation substrates. These reactions represent a powerful variation on hydroformylation, in that a C-Si bond is produced instead of a C-H bond. Given that C-Si groups are subject to, among other reactions, oxidation to C-OH groups, silylformylation could represent an oxidative carbonylation of the type described in Scheme 5.1. 

Silylformylation and hydroformylation reactions figured prominently in Ojima s approach to isoretronecanol and trachelanthamidine [40]. Thus, silylformylation of alkyne 70 proceeded smoothly to produce aldehyde 71 (Scheme 5.26). Reduction and protodesilylation provided allylic alcohol 72, which was protected to give 73. Hydroformylation in the presence of HC(OEt)3 led to a 2 1 mixture of 74 and 75. Deprotection and amide and amidal reduction then provided the target compounds. 

Reactions of Alkenes and Alkynes in Presence of Metal Carbonyls. Metal carbonyls—e.g., Ni(CO)4, Fe(CO)5, and Co2(CO)s—and hydrocarbonyls— HCO(CO)4 and H2Fe(CO)4—act as catalysts for the transformation of simple unsaturated materials into a wide variety of larger molecules. Perhaps the simplest example is that of hydroformylation (Equation 7). Reppe chemistry... 

TPPMS serves as ligand in a variety of catalysts for hydrogenation,6 hydroformylation, and C-C bond formation.7 In aqueous solutions, it reacts with activated olefins,8 alkynes,9 and aliphatic as well as aromatic aldehydes,10 giving the corresponding substituted alkylphosphonium salts. 

Few studies have been conducted on the hydroformylation of alkynes. Terminal acetylenes give saturated isomeric aldehydes supposedly through the initially formed alkenes.73 Conclusive evidence was obtained that internal alkynes, in contrast, first undergo hydroformylation to yield a,p-unsaturated aldehydes, which are subsequently hydrogenated to give the saturated aldehyde end products.74... 

Alkynes. New catalysts have been reported to effectively catalyze hydroformylation of alkynes. [Rh(CO)2(acac)] and a special biphosphate ligand enables the... 

The oligomerization, cooligomerization and metathesis of small alkenes and alkynes and much of cobalt-catalyzed hydroformylation fall within the scope of the companion work Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry and are not dealt with here. 

Hydroformylation and Related Additions of Carbon Monoxide to Alkenes and Alkynes... 

The reaction of alkenes (and alkynes) with synthesis gas (CO + H2) to produce aldehydes, catalyzed by a number of transition metal complexes, is most often referred to as a hydroformylation reaction or the oxo process. The discovery was made using a cobalt catalyst, and although rhodium-based catalysts have received increased attention because of their increased selectivity under mild reaction conditions, cobalt is still the most used catalyst on an industrial basis. The most industrially important hydrocarbonylation reaction is the synthesis of n-butanal from propene (equation 3). Some of the butanal is hydrogenated to butanol, but most is converted to 2-ethylhexanol via aldol and hydrogenation sequences. 

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