Cobalt metal carbonyls

Propane, 1-propanol, and heavy ends (the last are made by aldol condensation) are minor by-products of the hydroformylation step. A number of transition-metal carbonyls (qv), eg, Co, Fe, Ni, Rh, and Ir, have been used to cataly2e the oxo reaction, but cobalt and rhodium are the only economically practical choices. In the United States, Texas Eastman, Union Carbide, and Hoechst Celanese make 1-propanol by oxo technology (11). Texas Eastman, which had used conventional cobalt oxo technology with an HCo(CO)4 catalyst, switched to a phosphine-modified Rh catalyst ia 1989 (11) (see Oxo process). In Europe, 1-propanol is made by Hoechst AG and BASE AG (12). 

Syntheses from Dry Metals and Salts. Only metaUic nickel and iron react direcdy with CO at moderate pressure and temperatures to form metal carbonyls. A report has claimed the synthesis of Co2(CO)g in 99% yield from cobalt metal and CO at high temperatures and pressures (91,92). The CO has to be absolutely free of oxygen and carbon dioxide or the yield is drastically reduced. Two patents report the formation of carbonyls from molybdenum and tungsten metal (93,94). Ruthenium and osmium do not react with CO even under drastic conditions (95,96). 

Some metal carbonyls, such as nickel, cobalt and manganese compounds have been used to produce metallic deposition. The decomposition occurs in a stepwise manner, producing one CO(g) molecule at each step. 

Carbonyl Nitric Oxides. Another group of metal-carbonyl complexes, worthy of investigation as CVD precursors, consists of the carbonyl nitric oxides. In these complexes, one (or more) CO group is replaced by NO. An example is cobalt nitrosyl tricarbonyl, CoNO(CO)3, which is a preferred precursor for the CVD of cobalt. It is a liquid with a boiling point of 78.6°C which decomposes at 66°C. It is prepared by passing NO through an aqueous solution of cobalt nitrate and potassium cyanide and potassium hydroxide. ... 

Iron, nickel, cobalt, molybdenum, and tungsten powders produced by the pyrolysis of the respective metal carbonyl (see Ch. 3).P 1... 

Alkali Metal Derivatives of Metal Carbonyls, 2, 1S7 Alkyl and Aryl Derivatives of Transition Metals, 7, 1S7 Alkyl cobalt and Acylcobalt Tetracarbonyls, 4, 243 Allyl Metal Complexes, 2, 32S... 

Susac et al. [33] showed that the cobalt-selenium (Co-Se) system prepared by sputtering and chemical methods was catalytically active toward the ORR in an acidic medium. Lee et al. [34] synthesized ternary non-noble selenides based on W and Co by the reaction of the metal carbonyls and elemental Se in xylenes. These W-Co-Se systems showed catalytic activity toward ORR in acidic media, albeit lower than with Pt/C and seemingly proceeding as a two-electron process. It was pointed out that non-noble metals too can serve as active sites for catalysis, in fact generating sufficient activity to be comparable to that of a noble metal, provided that electronic effects have been induced by the chalcogen modification. 

We have shown in the preceding section that the IR spectra of well-defined metal carbonyls provide valuable information of the environment of the deposited metal atom. However, IR signals of CO molecules adsorbed on larger particles suffer from broad lines, which hamper a more detailed analysis of the data. In the forthcoming section we will present results on cobalt particles where carbonyl species are formed on larger particles containing hundreds of atoms. 

Because Ni(CO)4 is volatile (b.p. 43 °C) and cobalt will not react under these conditions, this process afforded a method for separating Ni from Co by the process now known as the Mond process. Although there are many complexes known that contain both carbonyl and other ligands (mixed carbonyl complexes), the number containing only a metal and carbonyl ligands is small. They are known as binary metal carbonyls, and they are listed in Table 21.1. The structures of most of these compounds are shown later in Figures 21.1 through 21.3. 

The solvent water reliably averts the risk of fire, which was inherent in the old cobalt-based process as a result of leaking highly flammable, metal carbonyls. The technique with its "built-in extinguishing system" reliably prevents such fires, and the painstaking... 

Most hydroformylation investigations reported since 1960 have involved trialkyl or triarylphosphine complexes of cobalt and, more recently, of rhodium. Infrared studies of phosphine complex catalysts under reaction conditions as well as simple metal carbonyl systems have provided substantial information about the postulated mechanisms. Spectra of a cobalt 1-octene system at 250 atm pressure and 150°C (21) contained absorptions characteristic for the acyl intermediate C8H17COCo(CO)4 (2103 and 2002 cm-1) and Co2(CO)8. The amount of acyl species present under these steady-state conditions increased with a change in the CO/ H2 ratio in the order 3/1 > 1/1 > 1/3. This suggests that for this system under these conditions, hydrogenolysis of the acyl cobalt species is a rate-determining step. 

The generation of the initial metal-carbon bond in the catalytic cycle by reaction of methyl iodide with a metal carbonyl-containing species has been proposed as a key step in both the cobalt (2) and rhodium (4) catalyzed systems. 

Pettit and coworkers—metal hydride intermediates by weak base attack over Fe carbonyl catalysts. Pettit et al.ls approached the use of metal carbonyl catalysts for the homogeneous water-gas shift reaction from the standpoint of hydroformyla-tion by the Reppe modification.7 In the typical hydroformylation reaction, an alkene is converted to the next higher aldehyde or alcohol through reaction of CO and H2 with the use of a cobalt or rhodium carbonyl catalyst. However, in the Reppe modification, the reduction is carried out with CO and H20 in lieu of H2 (Scheme 6) ... 

In a similar manner, Jt-allyl complexes of manganese, iron, and molybdenum carbonyls have been obtained from the corresponding metal carbonyl halides [5], In the case of the reaction of dicarbonyl(r 5-cyclopentadienyl)molybdenum bromide with allyl bromide, the c-allyl derivative is obtained in 75% yield in dichloromethane, but the Jt-allyl complex is the sole product (95%), when the reaction is conducted in a watenbenzene two-phase system. Similar solvent effects are observed in the corresponding reaction of the iron compound. As with the cobalt tetracarbonyl anion, it is... 

As indicated in Chapter 8, the production of alkanes, as by-products, frequently accompanies the two-phase metal carbonyl promoted carbonylation of haloalkanes. In the case of the cobalt carbonyl mediated reactions, it has been assumed that both the reductive dehalogenation reactions and the carbonylation reactions proceed via a common initial nucleophilic substitution reaction and that a base-catalysed anionic (or radical) cleavage of the metal-alkyl bond is in competition with the carbonylation step [l]. Although such a mechanism is not entirely satisfactory, there is no evidence for any other intermediate metal carbonyl species. 

Transition metal complexes which react with diazoalkanes to yield carbene complexes can be catalysts for diazodecomposition (see Section 4.1). In addition to the requirements mentioned above (free coordination site, electrophi-licity), transition metal complexes can catalyze the decomposition of diazoalkanes if the corresponding carbene complexes are capable of transferring the carbene fragment to a substrate with simultaneous regeneration of the original complex. Metal carbonyls of chromium, iron, cobalt, nickel, molybdenum, and tungsten all catalyze the decomposition of diazomethane [493]. Other related catalysts are (CO)5W=C(OMe)Ph [509], [Cp(CO)2Fe(THF)][BF4] [510,511], and (CO)5Cr(COD) [52,512]. These compounds are sufficiently electrophilic to catalyze the decomposition of weakly nucleophilic, acceptor-substituted diazoalkanes. 

Group IVA Donor Ligands. The anomalous reactions of PhaSiCl with metal carbonyl anions are discussed on p. 180. Only in the case of [Co(CO)3PPh3] was the normal substitution product obtained. GeH3Br reacts with Na-[Co(CO)4] in ether to produce [H3GeCo(CO)4]. The trideuterio-compound has also been prepared and spectroscopic properties reported for both compounds. The preparation and attempted preparation of halogen-bridged Ge-M compounds is referred to on pp. 180 and 200. In the case of cobalt. 

Catalysts Prepared from Metal Carbonyls of Croup 9 Cobalt, Rhodium and Iridium... 

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