Cation metathesis

The use of triphenylphosphine as ligand led to acceptable rates in ILs, but with high rhodium leaching into the organic phase. Recourse to sulfonated phosphines such as monosulfonated triphenylphosphine retained the catalyst in the ionic liquid phase but decreased its activity significantly. This drawback was surmounted by the use of 47 (Table 1.5), which was derived from a simple cation metathesis reaction between TPPTS (37) and 1-butyl-2,3-dimethylimi-dazolium chloride [bdmim][Cl] in acetonitrile. 

An alternative solution to ionic tagging to confine a catalyst into an IL phase is that of using a cationic metathesis complex, e.g. ruthenium allenylidene salt (86). Treatment of diallyltosylamide at 80 °C for 5h dissolved in [bmi-m][OTf] in the presence of 2.5 mol.% of pre-catalyst 86 led to the... 

Cation metathesis was also observed with highly negatively charged complexes... 

Ousters adsorbed on the outside surfaces of zeolites can often be easily extracted with neutral solvents or with salt solutions which remove the cluster ions by cation metathesis (ion exchange). Comparison of the infrared spectra of the extracted spedes and those of known spedes helps identify the encaged spedes. When treatment of a sample with such solutions fails to remove sorbed dusters, they are inferred to be trapped within the cages. The inference is supported when the same clusters adsorbed on the surface of a large pored material such as an amorphous metal oxide are removed by extraction. 

Bis(phosphonio)isophosphindolium cations were expected to act as attractive ambidentate ligands toward the transition-metal-containing moieties. These expectations did not materialize with respect to CpM(CO)3 (M = Mo, W), since the anionic metathesis occurred to yield the ionic products 178 (96PSS125). 

The choice of the anion ultimately intended to be an element of the ionic liquid is of particular importance. Perhaps more than any other single factor, it appears that the anion of the ionic liquid exercises a significant degree of control over the molecular solvents (water, ether, etc.) with which the IL will form two-phase systems. Nitrate salts, for example, are typically water-miscible while those of hexaflu-orophosphate are not those of tetrafluoroborate may or may not be, depending on the nature of the cation. Certain anions such as hexafluorophosphate are subject to hydrolysis at higher temperatures, while those such as bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonamide are not, but are extremely expensive. Additionally, the cation of the salt used to perform any anion metathesis is important. While salts of potassium, sodium, and silver are routinely used for this purpose, the use of ammonium salts in acetone is frequently the most convenient and least expensive approach. 

Analyses of rate measurements for the decomposition of a large number of basic halides of Cd, Cu and Zn did not always identify obedience to a single kinetic expression [623—625], though in many instances a satisfactory fit to the first-order equation was found. Observations for the pyrolysis of lead salts were interpreted as indications of diffusion control. More recent work [625] has been concerned with the double salts jcM(OH)2 yMeCl2 where M is Cd or Cu and Me is Ca, Cd, Co, Cu, Mg, Mn, Ni or Zn. In the M = Cd series, with the single exception of the zinc salt, reaction was dehydroxylation with concomitant metathesis and the first-order equation was obeyed. Copper (=M) salts underwent a similar change but kinetic characteristics were more diverse and examples of obedience to the first order, the phase boundary and the Avrami—Erofe ev equations [eqns. (7) and (6)] were found for salts containing the various cations (=Me). 

Pyridine complexes of Pd- and Pt-pincer ligands are also suitable substrates for olefin metathesis [116]. The first-generation catalyst 9 efficiently mediates the RCM of diallylphosphines and diallyl sulfide when the heteroatom is com-plexed by a cationic [C5H5(NO)(PPh3)Re] moiety [117]. This principle has been exploited in the same study for tungsten, rhodium, and platinum complexes. 

The obviation of side reactions is essential to the success of ADMET, and this can be realized if the proper catalyst is chosen. Catalyst choice must avoid the possibility of cation formation,13 vinyl addition, and/or formation of multiple catalytic species, all of which are detrimental to clean metathesis chemistry. Over the past 10 years, our group has utilized a variety of different catalysts, several of which are illustrated in Fig. 8.4. 

The synthesis, structures, and reactivity of neutral and cationic mono- and bis(guanidinato)zirconium(rV) complexes have been studied in detail. Either salt-metathesis using preformed lithium guanidinates or carbodiimide insertion of zirconium amides can be employed. Typical examples for these two main synthetic routes are illustrated in Schemes 73 and 74. Various cr-alkyl complexes and cationic species derived from these precursors have been prepared and structurally characterized. 

The mechanism for the reaction catalyzed by cationic palladium complexes (Scheme 24) differs from that proposed for early transition metal complexes, as well as from that suggested for the reaction shown in Eq. 17. For this catalyst system, the alkene substrate inserts into a Pd - Si bond a rather than a Pd-H bond [63]. Hydrosilylation of methylpalladium complex 100 then provides methane and palladium silyl species 112 (Scheme 24). Complex 112 coordinates to and inserts into the least substituted olefin regioselectively and irreversibly to provide 113 after coordination of the second alkene. Insertion into the second alkene through a boat-like transition state leads to trans cyclopentane 114, and o-bond metathesis (or oxidative addition/reductive elimination) leads to the observed trans stereochemistry of product 101a with regeneration of 112 [69]. 

We have used different anionic, cationic, and metathesis initiators but after the reaction of the initiator with one monomer molecule (initiation, kj) no subsequent propagation was observed ... 

Double-substitution or double-replacement reactions, also called double-decomposition reactions or metathesis reactions, involve two ionic compounds, most often in aqueous solution. In this type of reaction, the cations simply swap anions. The reaction proceeds if a solid or a covalent compound is formed from ions in solutions. All gases at room temperature are covalent. Some reactions of ionic solids plus ions in solution also occur. Otherwise, no reaction takes place. For example,... 

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