Carbon transition-metal catalyzed

To my knowledge, the first clear example of a transition metal-catalyzed addition of a thiol to a carbon-carbon unsaturated compound, hydrothiolatiori, was reported by Dzhemilev et al. in 1981 (Eq. 7.8) [20],... 

The insertion of unsaturated molecules into metal-carbon bonds is a critically important step in many transition-metal catalyzed organic transformations. The difference in insertion propensity of carbon-carbon and carbon-nitrogen multiple bonds can be attributed to the coordination characteristics of the respective molecules. The difficulty in achieving a to it isomerization may be the reason for the paucity of imine insertions. The synthesis of amides by the insertion of imines into palladium(II)-acyl bonds is the first direct observation of the insertion of imines into bonds between transition metals and carbon (see Scheme 7). The alternating copolymerization of imines with carbon monoxide (in which the insertion of the imine into palladium-acyl bonds would be the key step in the chain growth sequence), if successful, should constitute a new procedure for the synthesis of polypeptides (see Scheme 7).348... 

Recent trend in the synthesis of olefinic pheromones is the use of transition metal-catalyzed cross coupling reaction for carbon-carbon bond formation. Scheme 8 summarizes a synthesis of the termite trail marker pheromone, (3Z,6Z)-3,6-dodecadien- l-ol (2) by Oehlschlager [19]. The key-step is the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of allylic chloride A and alkenylalane B. 

Zinc compounds have recently been used as pre-catalysts for the polymerization of lactides and the co-polymerization of epoxides and carbon dioxide (see Sections 2.06.8-2.06.12). The active catalysts in these reactions are not organozinc compounds, but their protonolyzed products. A few well-defined organozinc compounds, however, have been used as co-catalysts and chain-transfer reagents in the transition metal-catalyzed polymerization of olefins. 

The transition metal-catalyzed polymerization of olefins yields high molecular weight polymers as the result of the successive insertion of monomer into the metal-carbon bond of the growing polymer chain. This chain growth is... 

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