Cobalt complexes carboxylates

A cobalt complex containing this type of ligand is effective in the sodium borohydride-mediated enantioselective reduction of a variety of a,/ -unsaturated carboxylates. As can be seen from Scheme 6-8, in the presence of a catalytic amount of a complex formed in situ from C0CI2 and chiral ligand 11, reduction proceeds smoothly, giving product with up to 96% ee. The chiral ligand can easily be recovered by treating the reaction mixture with acetic acid. 

Aryl methyl ketones have been obtained [4, 5] by a modification of the cobalt-catalysed procedure for the synthesis of aryl carboxylic acids (8.3.1). The cobalt tetracarbonyl anion is converted initially by iodomethane into the methyltetra-carbonyl cobalt complex, which reacts with the haloarene (Scheme 8.13). Carboxylic acids are generally obtained as by-products of the reaction and, in several cases, it is the carboxylic acid which predominates. Unlike the carbonylation of haloarenes to produce exclusively the carboxylic acids [6, 7], the reaction does not need photoinitiation. Replacement of the iodomethane with benzyl bromide leads to aryl benzyl ketones in low yield, e.g. 1-bromonaphthalene produces the benzyl ketone (15%), together with the 1-naphthoic acid (5%), phenylacetic acid (15%), 1,2-diphenylethane (15%), dibenzyl ketone (1%), and 56% unchanged starting material [4,5]. a-Bromomethyl ketones dimerize in the presence of cobalt octacarbonyl and... 

The catalysis of the selective oxidation of alkanes is a commercially important process that utilizes cobalt carboxylate catalysts at elevated (165°C, 10 atm air) temperatures and pressures (98). Recently, it has been demonstrated that [Co(NCCH3)4][(PF6)2], prepared in situ from CoCl2 and AgPF6 in acetonitrile, was active in the selective oxidation of alkanes (adamantane and cyclohexane) under somewhat milder conditions (75°C, 3 atm air) (99). Further, under these milder conditions, the commercial catalyst system exhibited no measurable activity. Experiments were reported that indicated that the mechanism of the reaction involves a free radical chain mechanism in which the cobalt complex acts both as a chain initiator and as a hydroperoxide decomposition catalyst. 

Co(OAc)2 in the presence of sodium hydride and a sodium alkoxide has been used to catalyze the carbonylation of aryl bromides, giving mixtures of carboxylic acids and esters, again at normal pressure. When amines were present, amides were formed. Unfortunately, nothing is known about the nature of the cobalt complexes involved. 

The metal carboxylate insertion mechanism has also been demonstrated in the dicobaltoctacarbonyl-catalyzed carbomethoxylation of butadiene to methyl 3-pentenoate.66,72 The reaction of independently synthesized cobalt-carboxylate complex (19) with butadiene (Scheme 8) produced ii3-cobalt complex (20) via the insertion reaction. Reaction of (20) with cobalt hydride gives the product. The pyridine-CO catalyst promotes the reaction of methanol with dicobalt octacarbonyl to give (19) and HCo(CO)4. 

Cobalt complexes have been used to catalyze the carbonylation of chloroarenes to the corresponding carboxylic acids and their esters (Sect. 3.3). Some complexes of cobalt in the oxidation state -1 activate the Ar-Cl bond via an SRN1-type mechanism [2] involving single electron transfer from the metal to chloro-arene, followed by elimination of Cl . The simplest Co(-I) carbonyl species, [Co(CO)4] , is not electron-rich enough to react with haloarenes. However, its reactivity has been shown to enhance tremendously in the presence of Caubere s complex bases, mixtures of NaH and NaOAlk [23,66,67]. For instance, the stoichiometric carbonylation of chlorobenzene has been performed with the... 

Only a few chiral catalysts based on metals other than rhodium and ruthenium have been reported. The titanocene complexes used by Buchwald et al. [109] for the highly enantioselective hydrogenation of enamines have aheady been mentioned in Section 3.4 (cf. Fig. 32). Cobalt semicorrin complexes have proven to be efficient catalysts for the enantioselective reduction of a,P-unsaturated carboxylic esters and amides using sodium borohydride as the reducing agent [ 156, 157]. Other chiral cobalt complexes have also been studied but with less success... 

Mononuclear cobalt(II) carboxylate complexes Synthesis, molecular structure and selective oxygenation study NCMe r //va V/ 6 =7 ygi 18... 

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