Chelating bisphosphine rhodium complexes

P-31 NMR Studies of Equilibria and Ligand Exchange in Triphenylphosphine Rhodium Complex and Related Chelated Bisphosphine Rhodium Complex Hydroformylation Catalyst Systems... 

The hydroboration of enynes yields either of 1,4-addition and 1,2-addition products, the ratio of which dramatically changes with the phosphine ligand as well as the molar ratio of the ligand to the palladium (Scheme 1-8) [46-51]. ( )-l,3-Dienyl-boronate (24) is selectively obtained in the presence of a chelating bisphosphine such as dppf and dppe. On the other hand, a combination of Pdjldba), with Ph2PC6p5 (1-2 equiv. per palladium) yields allenylboronate (23) as the major product. Thus, a double coordination of two C-C unsaturated bonds of enyne to a coordinate unsaturated catalyst affords 1,4-addition product On the other hand, a monocoordination of an acetylenic triple bond to a rhodium(I)/bisphosphine complex leads to 24. Thus, asymmetric hydroboration of l-buten-3-yne giving (R)-allenyl-boronate with 61% ee is carried out by using a chiral monophosphine (S)-(-)-MeO-MOP (MeO-MOP=2-diphenylphosphino-2 -methoxy-l,l -binaphthyl) [52]. 

Even though the outlined approach allowed the successful rationalisation of many experimentally observed shift/structure and shift/reactivity correlations, Leitner et al. have pointed out that such relations cannot be expected to be universally valid and require that structural variations are modest and avoid large simultaneous changes in parameters that may have opposite effects on metal chemical shifts.61 To overcome these drawbacks and establish a more rational interpretation of chemical shift trends, they used a combination of experimental and computational efforts to assess the importance of different electronic and structural factors on the metal chemical shifts of a series of rhodium complexes with bidentate chelating bisphosphine ligands. The basis of their approach is first the validation of experimentally observed metal shifts by... 

The chiral phosphine 31 or 32-rhodium complex catalyzed the addition of arystannanes 30 to N-sulfonylimines 29 to give diarylmethylamines 33 with high enantioselectivity (75-96% ee) [21]. The choice of the chiral monoden-tate phosphine ligand is essential for their catalytic asymmetric arylation. With chelating bisphosphine ligands the arylation was very slow. The authors hypoth-... 

P-31 NMR studies also were carried out in a similar manner on rhodium complexes of two chelating bisphosphines—bis-l,3-diphenyl-phosphinopropane and bis-l,2-diphenylphosphinoethane. These complexes were generated in solution via ligand displacement from tris(tri-phenylphosphine)rhodium carbonyl hydride. For example, one of the possible displacement products of bis-l,3-diphenylphosphinopropane (F) is a cis-chelate (G) that can undergo dissociation to yield a chelating bisphosphine complex (H) ... 

For cis-chelate complexes of rhodium and bisphosphines as catalysts, indeed relatively low ratios of n/i aldehyde products were reported (12, 13). Using a 1 1 mixture of H CO at atmospheric pressure, Sanger reported n/i ratios ranging from 3 to 4 for propylene hydroformylation (12). However, his catalyst systems were produced by adding less than 2 mol of bisphosphine per mole tris(triphenyl-phosphine)rhodium carbonyl hydride. When an excess of the chelating bisphosphines was used by Pittman and Hirao (13), low n/i ratios close to 1 were produced from 1-pentene using a mixture of H2/CO at 100-800 psi between 60° and 120°C. 

Knowles [1] and Homer [2] independently discovered homogeneous asymmetric catalysts based on rhodium complexes bearing a chiral monodentate tertiary phosphine. Continued efforts in this field have produced hundreds of asymmetric catalysts with a plethora of chiral ligands [7], dominated by chelating bisphosphines, that are highly active and enantioselective. These catalysts are beginning to rival biocatalysis in organic synthesis. The evolution of these catalysts has been chronicled in several reviews [8 13]. 

The rhodium-phosphine catalyst [Rh(T)-L] was prepared from [ RhCl(NBD) 2] and the chelating bisphosphines 141 and 142 [59] following chloride removal with silver triflate. In fact, the two systems on Scheme 3.52 and 3.53 could be mn together, with the net result of hydrogenation of ketones by molecular hydrogen. The same rhodium-phosphine complex catalyzed the direct hydrogenation of flavin mononucleotide to dihydroflavin mononucleotide [59],... 

Because decarbonylation of the acyl intermediate competes with olefin insertion into the same species, and the carbonyl complexes are inactive as catalysts, the catalyst is poisoned by the competing decarbonylation. The use of a cationic rhodium complex containing a chelating ligand suppresses poisoning of the catalyst by decarbonylation, and reactions of aIk-4-en-l-als catalyzed by rhodium complexes of bisphosphines formed the desired cyclo-pentanones faster than reactions catalyzed by neutral rhodium complexes. "... 

Rhodium complexes derived from chelating bisphosphines anchored to an asymmetric, ancillary Cp-Re complex exhibit moderate enantioselectivity in the hydrosiiation of phenyl/alkyl ketones with Ph2SiH2. A tra i-chelating, planar-chiral bisphosphine 40, based on a biferrocenyl motif, forms Rh complexes that are... 

The tris(triphenylphosphine) rhodium carbonyl hydride complex also was used via ligand exchange to obtain known chelate complexes of bisphosphines... 

Chelate Complexes Derived from Tris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium(l) Carbonyl Hydride and Bisphosphines... 

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