Carbonic acid hydroformylation catalysts

Complexes of carbonic or carboxylic acid anions have been used as hydroformylation catalysts for various alkenes. The bicarbonate complex [Rh(H)2(02COH)(PPr 3)2] as catalyst enabled 1-hexene to be converted to aldehydes using paraformaldehyde as source of hydrogen and carbon monoxide in place of the more usual gas mixture.338 The acetate complex [Rh(OAc)CO(PPh3)2] (74) has been shown to effect the selective hydroformylation of cyclic dienes. The cyclohexadienes gave predominantly dialdehydes, whereas 1,3- and 1,5-cyclooctadiene gave the saturated monoaldehydes.339... 

The homogeneous complex RhCl(dpm)3 acts also as hydroformylation catalyst [159], Upon illumination of the catalytic photosystem Ru(bpy) +/ascorbic acid/RhCl(dpm)3- in the presence of ethylene and carbon monoxide, propionaldehyde is obtained as photoproduct. Similarly, propene yields the hydroformylation product butyraldeyde. The facts that no hydrogenation products are produced in this assembly, and that hydridocarbonyl-tris-(diphenylphos-phinobenzene-3-sulphonate) rhodium(I), RhHfCOXdpm) -, substitutes RhCl(dpm)3- as catalyst in the photosystem to yield the hydroformylation products at similar efficiency, suggest that the homogeneous catalyst RhClfdpmJj -is transformed into a new catalytic species under CO. A possible route for the interconversion of RhCl(dpm)3 into the hydroformylation catalyst is provided in Scheme 4. 

With Unsaturated Compounds. The reaction of unsaturated organic compounds with carbon monoxide and molecules containing an active hydrogen atom leads to a variety of interesting organic products. The hydroformylation reaction is the most important member of this class of reactions. When the hydroformylation reaction of ethylene takes place in an aqueous medium, diethyl ketone [96-22-0] is obtained as the principal product instead of propionaldehyde [123-38-6] (59). Ethylene, carbon monoxide, and water also yield propionic acid [79-09-4] under mild conditions (448—468 K and 3—7 MPa or 30—70 atm) using cobalt or rhodium catalysts containing bromide or iodide (60,61). 

C-19 dicarboxyhc acid can be made from oleic acid or derivatives and carbon monoxide by hydroformylation, hydrocarboxylation, or carbonylation. In hydroformylation, ie, the Oxo reaction or Roelen reaction, the catalyst is usually cobalt carbonyl or a rhodium complex (see Oxo process). When using a cobalt catalyst a mixture of isomeric C-19 compounds results due to isomerization of the double bond prior to carbon monoxide addition (80). 

Sodium pyrazolate and 3,5-dimethylpyrazolate, [( " -cod)Rh(/A-Cl)]2, carbon monoxide, 3-(diphenylphosphino)benzoic acid, or (2-formylphenyl)diphenyl-phosphine give rise to complexes 120 (R = H, Me) and 121 (R = H, Me) [94JOM(469)213]. However, 2-(diphenylphosphino)benzoic acid (the carboxyl group in the ortho position) leads to formation of the mononuclear complexes 122. The products appear to be catalysts for hydroformylation reactions [93MI2]. 

Platinum complexes with chiral phosphorus ligands have been extensively used in asymmetric hydroformylation. In most cases, styrene has been used as the substrate to evaluate the efficiency of the catalyst systems. In addition, styrere was of interest as a model intermediate in the synthesis of arylpropionic acids, a family of anti-inflammatory drugs.308,309 Until 1993 the best enantio-selectivities in asymmetric hydroformylation were provided by platinum complexes, although the activities and regioselectivities were, in many cases, far from the obtained for rhodium catalysts. A report on asymmetric carbonylation was published in 1993.310 Two reviews dedicated to asymmetric hydroformylation, which appeared in 1995, include the most important studies and results on platinum-catalogued asymmetric hydroformylation.80,81 A report appeared in 1999 about hydrocarbonylation of carbon-carbon double bonds catalyzed by Ptn complexes, including a proposal for a mechanism for this process.311... 

TMS systems, which were used in the isomerizing hydroformylation of frans-4-octene, should be apphcable to hydroaminomethylation as well because the hydroformylation is the first step of the reaction. For this reason similar TMS systems were apphed in a first series of investigations [40]. Propylene carbonate (PC) was chosen as the polar solvent si for the catalyst and alkanes (an isomeric mixture of dodecane or n-hexane) were used as non-polar component s2. 1.4-Dioxane, different pyrrohdones [N-methylpyr-rolidone (NMP), JV-ethylpyrrohdone (NEP), M-cyclohexylpyrrolidone (NCP) AT-benzylpyrrolidone (NBP) and N-octylpyrrohdone (NOP)] or esters of lactic acid (ethyllactate and butyllactate) served as mediator s3. As a test reaction the hydroaminomethylation of 1-octene with morphohne was investigated (Scheme 7). 

Hydroformylation is the process of coupling carbon monoxide to an olefin with a reductive catalyst and hydrogen to produce an aldehyde-functionalized substrate. This coupling is typically followed by hydrogenation to produce a primary hydroxyl group. Several academic and commercial programs have participated in the development of hydroformylated triglycerides and fatty acid derivatives for use in polyurethanes. Two main processes for the hydroformylation of seed oils have been utilized. 

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