Catalysts monomeric

Three types of vanadium-containing species are present at the surface of the vanadia on titania catalysts. Monomeric vanadyl, polymeric vanadates, and crystalline vanadia depending on the vanadia loading (see Fig. 5.19). Moreover, Bronsted acid sites and Lewis sites are present at the surface of vanadia on titania catalysts. All species are needed to explain the mechanism of the SCR reaction over this type of catalyst. The active sites are related to previously mentioned vanadia/vanadium species. A variety of active sites were proposed such as two adjacent V =0 groups or co-ordinated vanadyl centres [81,84-86] V =0 and... 

In order to prepare polymer-supported CBS catalyst, monomeric precursors 59, 60 or 61 or bromides 62 and 63 have been synthesized (Scheme 28). The oxazaborolidine could be formed in situ or not before performing the hydride reduction of ketones. 

Another type of synthetic polymer-based chiral stationary phase is formed when chiral catalyst are used to initiate the polymerisation. In the case of poly(methyl methacrylate) polymers, introduced by Okamoto, the chiraUty of the polymer arises from the heUcity of the polymer and not from any inherent chirahty of the individual monomeric subunits (109). Columns of this type (eg, Chiralpak OT) are available from Chiral Technologies, Inc., or J. T. Baker Inc. 

Esters. Most acryhc acid is used in the form of its methyl, ethyl, and butyl esters. Specialty monomeric esters with a hydroxyl, amino, or other functional group are used to provide adhesion, latent cross-linking capabihty, or different solubihty characteristics. The principal routes to esters are direct esterification with alcohols in the presence of a strong acid catalyst such as sulfuric acid, a soluble sulfonic acid, or sulfonic acid resins addition to alkylene oxides to give hydroxyalkyl acryhc esters and addition to the double bond of olefins in the presence of strong acid catalyst (19,20) to give ethyl or secondary alkyl acrylates. 

Ruthenium. Ruthenium, as a hydroformylation catalyst (14), has an activity signiftcandy lower than that of rhodium and even cobalt (22). Monomeric mthenium carbonyl triphenylphosphine species (23) yield only modest normal to branched regioselectivities under relatively forcing conditions. For example, after 22 hours at 120°C, 10 MPa (1450 psi) of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, biscarbonyltristriphenylphosphine mthenium [61647-76-5] ... 

The physical properties of commercial alkoxysilanes are provided in Table 1. Two classes of silane esters have very distinct properties and are generally considered apart from alkoxysilanes. Sdatranes are compounds derived from trialkanolamines and have siHcon—nitrogen coordination. These are generally hydrolytically stable and have unique physiological properties (3). A second special class of monomeric esters are cycHc diesters of polyethyleneoxide glycols designated sila-crowns, which have appHcation as catalysts (4). Neither silatranes nor sila-crowns are considered herein. 

The next major commodity plastic worth discussing is polypropylene. Polypropylene is a thermoplastic, crystalline resin. Its production technology is based on Ziegler s discovery in 1953 of metal alkyl-transition metal halide olefin polymerization catalysts. These are heterogeneous coordination systems that produce resin by stereo specific polymerization of propylene. Stereoregular polymers characteristically have monomeric units arranged in orderly periodic steric configuration. 

Seebach et al., who first developed the TADDOL ligands [53, 67], have also developed a number of polymer- and dendrimer-bound TiCl2-TADDOLate catalysts derived from the monomeric TADDOLs [68]. Application of 10mol% of this type of catalysts, derived from polymers and dendrimers of 27 and 28, respectively, in the... 

Addition polymers are formed by the reaction of the monomeric units without the elimination of atoms. The monomer is usually an unsaturated organic compound such as ethylene, H2C=CHs, which in the presence of a suitable catalyst will undergo an addition reaction to form a long chain molecule such as polyethylene. A general equation for the first stage of such a process is... 

Que and coworkers reported on a similar monomeric iron complex, formed with the BPMEN ligand but without acetic acid [128]. This complex was able to epoxidize cyclooctene in reasonably good yield (75%), but at the same time a small amount of the ris-diol (9 %) was formed. This feature observed with this class of complexes has been further studied and more selective catalysts have been prepared. Even though poor levels of conversion are often obtained with the current... 

Although the enantioselective intermolecular addition of aliphatic alcohols to meso-epoxides with (salen)metal systems has not been reported, intramolecular asymmetric ring-opening of meso-epoxy alcohols has been demonstrated. By use of monomeric cobalt acetate catalyst 8, several complex cyclic and bicydic products can be accessed in highly enantioenriched form from the readily available meso-epoxy alcohols (Scheme 7.17) [32]. 

The tridentate ligands C, L and M are effective catalysts for the enantioselective addition of dialkylzincs to aromatic aldehydes16,17. In particular, ligands L and M qualify as members of the chemical enzyme (chemzyme) class of synthetic reagents17, since they function in a predictable, clear-cut mechanistic way. As demonstrated by X-ray diffraction, the actual catalyst is a monomeric zinc chelate 2 formed in toluene at 50 C by reaction of L or M with one equivalent of diethylzinc. 

The polymer-bound catalysts A-C. (Table 31) are prepared by reaction of the corresponding amino alcohols with partially chloromethylated 1 -2% cross-linked polystyrene. In the case of A, the enantioselectivity of the addition of dialkylzincs to aldehydes is higher than with the corresponding monomeric ephedrine derivatives (vide supra). Interesting insights into the mechanism of the alkylation of aldehydes by dialkylzinc reagents can be obtained from the experi-... 

McKinney13 has described the reaction of nylon-6,6 and nylon-6,6-nylon-6 mixtures with ammonia at temperatures between 300 and 350°C and a pressure of about 68 atm in the presence of an ammonium phosphate catalyst to yield a mixture of the following monomeric products HMDA, adiponitrile, and... 

The oligomerization of the ethylene is performed at 80-120°C and at a pressure of 70-140 bar. A solvent like 1,4-butanediol is used, in which only the catalyst and the monomeric ethylene are soluble but not the formed higher molecular weight olefins. The oligomerization of the ethylene in such a two-phase systems enables the separation of the homogeneous catalyst from the reaction product by a simple phase separation. 

The loading of the activated monomeric catalyst could be decreased to a level of 0.04 mol% for certain substrates [turn over number 2,450], The developed process does not require the use of inert gas techniques and in most cases chromatographic purification was not necessary to obtain analytically pure products as no side products were formed and the catalyst could be separated by filtration. 

The initial rate of the model reaction follows a first-order dependence for the activated catalyst, the Michael donor, and the Michael acceptor. The rate determining step is not the C-C bond formation or protonolysis but the decomplexation of the bidentate product. This was evidenced by the relationship between the initial conversion and the reaction time. Extrapolation to fg = 0 h provides a positive intercept. In other words, upon addition of the reagents, the C-C bond formation occurs almost instantaneously. The amount of product at fo correlates within the experimental error to the double precatalyst loading since the dimeric precatalyst forms two active monomeric catalyst species. 

Ziegler-Natta catalyst for polymerization of alkenes. Considerable attention has been directed to double-bonded Fischer carbenes of Cr and W, the Schrock carbenes of Ta and Ti, and cyclic polyene ligands of Fe, Co, Cr, and U. Carbonyls of transition metals from groups 6 to 10 of the periodic table include both the monomeric compounds such as Cr(CO)g, Fe(CO)5, Ni(CO)4 and those with two metal groups such as Mn2(CO)io and Co2(CO)s, which is used industrially for hydroformylation. Although their source has not been identified, it has been shown that volatile compounds from landfills contain carbonyls of Mo and W (Feldmann and Cullen 1997). 

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