Catalysis, ancillary ligands

With some transition-metal complexes, the ligand is not only an ancillary ligand. Similar to the transition-metal, it takes directly part in the hydrogen transfer process. Such ligand-metal bifunctional hydrogenation catalysis is dramatically changing the face of reduction chemistry (Scheme 9) (for reviews of ligand-metal bifunctional catalysis, see [32, 37 0]). 

Our attempts to prepare chromium hydrides and to evaluate their role in polymerization catalysis eventually led to the isolation of a series of alkyls and hydrides lacking any ancillary ligands besides the cyclopentadienyl moiety (see below).[6] Reduced to the essence of alkyls, these complexes provided another piece of evidence in the growing case against polymerization activity of divalent chromium none of the alkyls even reacted with ethylene. The hydride underwent one insertion and stopped at the stage of an ethyl group. 

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In contrast to the above heterogeneous catalyst based on a Co(III)cyclam complex, in the catalyst reported earlier by Das Clark [26], pyridine which was used as an ancillary ligand to stabilize the cobalt(III) complex in the immobilized state was foimd to escape from reaction mixtures heated between 110-130°C. However, no metal leaching was observed. Catalysis reuse was possible for this catalyst after catalyst regeneration achieved by addition of pyridine to the substrate-used catalyst reaction systems. 

The properties of siloxide as ancillary ligand in the system TM-O-SiRs can be effectively utilized in molecular catalysis, but predominantly by early transition metal complexes. Mono- and di-substituted branched siloxy ligands (e.g., incompletely condensed silsesquioxanes) have been employed as more advanced models of the silanol sites on silica surface for catalytically active centers of early TM (Ti, W, V) that could be effectively used in polymerization [5], metathesis [6] and epoxidation [7] of alkenes as well as dehydrogenative coupling of silanes [8]. 

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These reactions illustrate the importance of ruthenium vinylidene species, as activated forms of terminal alkynes, in catalysis, because they favor the addition of O-nudeophiles (carbamic and carboxylic acids, alcohols, water) to terminal alkynes and completely reverse the expected regioselectivity of the addition. These examples also show that the activation processes are very sensitive to the nature of the nucleophiles, and the success of the awtt-Markovnikov addition to terminal alkynes is highly dependent on both the electron richness and steric hindrance of the ancillary ligands coordinated to the active site. 

Sfructural models for the substrate-catalyst adduct in HDN catalysis have been prepared and compared with respect to O versus S-ancillary ligands. jj -A,C-1,3,5-tributylpyridine complexes ( -A,C-NC5Bu 3H2)Ta(OAr)2X (X = OBfr, SBu, Br) show a severe interruption of aromaticity within the pyridine heterocycle, different rotational preferences of the NC5 plane with respect to the Ta(OAr)2X moiety, and structural differences in the aryloxide hgand. The comparison here support the ancillary hgand 7r-donor abihty decreasing as OBu > OAr > SBu > Cl Br > Et. ... 

Other examples of ancillary ligands used to enhance analyte selectivity include amide-modified D03A (1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-l,4,7-trisacetate) complexed to Tb , which selectively binds the bidentate analytes p-dimethylaminobenzoic acid (DMABA) and SA (160-162). The binary complex of with EDTA can effectively detect SA, 4-aminosalicylic acid and 5-fluorosalicylic acid (163). [Tb(EDTA)] also has been used to detect catalysis of hydroxybenzoic acid (HBA) by hemin via formation of a ternary complex with the HBA oxidation product (164). Diaza-crown ethers have been utilized with and Eu to detect phthalate, benzoate,... 

Polypyridine complexes are usually remarkably stable toward ligand dissociation upon reduction or oxidation. This is because polypyridines are very good ligands in their neutral, radical-anionic, as well as dianionie forms. However, in some eases (Section 5.2.2), a polypyridine ligand or, more often, an ancillary ligand gets labi-lized by reduction, with important chemical consequences and applications in catalysis. 

Reductively induced dissociation of an ancillary ligand from polypyridine complexes has a great importance for redox catalysis ... 

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