Catalysts systems first generation

In 1968 Wilkinson discovered that phosphine-modified rhodium complexes display a significantly higher activity and chemoselectivity compared to the first generation cobalt catalyst [29]. Since this time ligand modification of the rhodium catalyst system has been the method of choice in order to influence catalyst activity and selectivity [10]. 

Another example of an efficient domino RCM is the synthesis of the highly functionalized tricyclic ring system 6/3-72 by Hanna and coworkers [252], which is the core structure of the diterpene guanacastepene A (6/3-73) (Scheme 6/3.21) [253]. Reaction of 6/3-71 in the presence of 10 mol% of Grubbs II catalyst 6/3-15 led to 6/3-372 in 93 % yield. Interestingly, the first-generation Ru-catalyst 6/3-13 did not allow any transformation. 

A given ligand system was first prepared on the solid support, and a small collection of catalysts (library 1) generated by adding 11 different metals and in one case no metal (Scheme 23).119 It turned out that the best ee-value (19%) was in fact obtained in the metal-free system. Based on this... 

The rate of production using the catalyst system derived from Fe(CO)5 is thus seen to have a first order dependence on Fe(CO)j concentration and to be independent of CO pressure in accord with the experimental observations outlined above. Furthermore, the formate buffer system generated by reaction of CO with the base by equation 2 keeps the OH concentration essentially independent of the amount of base introduced into the system. Therefore the rate of H production using the catalyst system derived from Fe(CO), although having a first order dependence on OH concentration, is essentially independent of the base concentration. 

For the synthesis of heterocycles, an efficient strategy has been introduced utilizing the dual transition metal sequences (Scheme 6).11,lla The key issue is the compatibility of the two catalyst systems. Jeong et al. studied the one-pot preparation of bicyclopentenone 35 from propargylsulfonamide 33 and allylic acetate.11 This transformation includes two reactions the first palladium-catalyzed allylation of 33 generates an enyne 34 and the following Pauson-Khand type reaction (PKR) of 34 yields a bicyclopentenone 35. The success of this transformation reflects the right combination of catalysts which are compatible with each other because the allylic amination can be facilitated by the electron-rich palladium(O) catalyst and the PKR needs a Lewis-acidic catalyst. Trost et al. reported the one-pot enantioselective... 

Section 3 will deal with catalytic systems whose stereospecificity is mainly controlled by the chirality of the environment of the transition metal, independently of the possible chirality of the growing chain (chiral site stereocontrol). In particular, in Section 3.1 the chirality and stereospecificity of homogeneous catalytic systems based on metallocenes of different symmetries and in different experimental conditions will be reviewed. In Section 3.2 the chirality of model catalytic sites, which have been supposed for isospecific first-generation TiCl3-based and high-yield MgC -supported catalysts, is described. In Section 3.3 we will present a comparison between model catalytic sites proposed for heterogeneous and homogeneous stereospecific site-controlled catalysts. 

A number of groups have reported the preparation and in situ application of several types of dendrimers with chiral auxiliaries at their periphery in asymmetric catalysis. These chiral dendrimer ligands can be subdivided into three different classes based on the specific position of the chiral auxiliary in the dendrimer structure. The chiral positions may be located at, (1) the periphery, (2) the dendritic core (in the case of a dendron), or (3) throughout the structure. An example of the first class was reported by Meijer et al. [22] who prepared different generations of polypropylene imine) dendrimers which were substituted at the periphery of the dendrimer with chiral aminoalcohols. These surface functionalities act as chiral ligand sites from which chiral alkylzinc aminoalcoholate catalysts can be generated in situ at the dendrimer periphery. These dendrimer systems were tested as catalyst precursors in the catalytic 1,2-addition of diethylzinc to benzaldehyde (see e.g. 13, Scheme 14). 

Morimoto, Kakiuchi, and co-workers were the first to show that aldehydes are a useful source of CO in the catalytic PKR [68]. Based on 13C-labeling experiments, it was proposed that after decarbonylation of the aldehyde, an active metal catalyst is formed. This was proven by the absence of free carbon monoxide. As a consequence CO, which is directly generated by previous aldehyde decarbonylation, is incorporated in situ into the carbonylative coupling. The best results were obtained using C5F5CHO and cinnamaldehyde as CO source in combination with [RhCl(cod)]2/dppp as the catalyst system. In the presence of an excess of aldehyde the corresponding products were isolated in the range of 52-97%. 

The robust nature of the rhodium-iodide catalyst is also revealed in reactions with ortho-halo phenols that proved to be problematic with the first-generation catalyst system (Section 9.3.1). By employing the [Rh(PPF-P Bu2)I] catalyst, complete conversion is obtained with 2-bromophenol to give 6 in 94% yield, and with 95% enantiomeric excess after only 1.5 h of reaction time at 1 mol% catalyst loading (Scheme 9.3) [11]. The ready availability of these ring-opened compounds has been utilized to prepare enan-tiomerically enriched benzofurans 7. 

The rate of reaction of propylene over the MeReOs/HMDS/silica-alumina catalyst (1.4 wt% Re) is shown in Figure 2b. The profile is similar to that of the Sn-promoted perrhenate catalyst, with kobs = (1-78 + 0.09) x 10" s, and the activity responds similarly to subsequent additions of propylene. In fact, the pseudo-first-order rate constant for the organometallic catalyst lies on the same line as the rate constants for the Sn-promoted perrhenate catalyst. Figure 3. Therefore we infer that the same active site is generated in both organometallic and promoted inorganic catalyst systems. 

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