Cobalt phosphine ligands

A particularly useful phosphine ligand for the cobalt carbonyl catalyst is a bicyclic tertiary phosphine available from 1,5-cyclooctadiene, phosphine, and an a-olefin ... 

Cobalt carbonyl complexes with tertiary phosphine ligands are not volatile. This makes possible a distillative separation of the reaction products from the cobalt catalyst system (Fig. 5). 

Enediynes 38 undergo [2+2+2] cycloaddition reactions to afford polycyclic cyclohexadienes 39 in presence of a cobalt catalyst (Scheme 5.11) [14]- In this system, the presence of a NHC ligand improved the catalytic power of cobalt when compared with phosphine ligands. In addition to increased yields, lower ligand... 

Yong et al. developed a cobalt-catalyzed [2+2+2] cyclotrimerization of terminal alkynes in good yields in aqueous media (80/20 mixture of water and ethanol) at room temperature. A cyclopentadienyl cobalt complex bearing a pendant phosphine ligand was used as a catalyst (Eq. 4.59). The cyclotrimerization of internal alkynes resulted in lower yields and required an elevated temperature, most likely due to steric interactions. For example, cyclotrimerization of 2,5-dimethyl-3-hexyne gave hexaisopropylbenzene in 51% yield and the reaction of diphenylethyne resulted in a 47% yield of hexaphenylbenzene.112... 

Lin, J. J. (Texaco Development Corp.) Process for synthesis of amidoacids using a cobalt catalyst and a bidentate phosphine ligand Eur. Pat. Appl. 263,624 1988. Chem. Abstr. 1989, 110, 154881. 

Since Shell s report on the use of phosphines in the cobalt catalysed process, which included preliminary data for the use of rhodium as well [1], many industries started to apply phosphine ligands in rhodium catalysed processes [2], While alkylphosphines are the ligands of choice for cobalt, they lead to slow reactions when applied in rhodium catalysis. In the mid-sixties the work of Wilkinson showed that arylphosphines should be used for rhodium and that even at mild conditions active catalysts can be obtained [3], The publications were soon followed by those of Pruett, in which phosphites were introduced (Figure 8.1) [4],... 

Shell Chemical has a process that does both the Oxo reaction and hydroformyiation in one step in the same reactor. They use a special catalyst, thought to be cobalt modified with a trialkyl or triaryl phosphine ligand— but they are holding this one pretty close to the vest. Overall yields are 70-80%, with straight-chain alcohols representing greater than 80%. Major by-products are paraffins that are recovered and used to make olefins and then recycled back as feed. This process can also use internal olefins (with the double-bond somewhere besides the alpha position) and yield similar normakiso alcohol ratios. ... 

Remarkably, the catalytic cycle is not controlled by the presence of phosphine ligands, but it is controlled by the organo group Y at the cobalt the neutral ligand L is displaced by the substrates in the initial step. Oxidative addition of two acetylenes results in a cobaltacycle that reacts with the nitrile to give the pyridine derivative with regeneration of the active [YCo] species. 

The cobalt is present as a carbonyl derivative and can be directly active in the hydrocarbonylation steps of the process only when a large excess of cobalt is used in the presence of phosphine ligands and iodide promoters (Co/Ru 10/1). In this case the ruthenium is probably mainly involved in the hydrogenation of the aldehydes and their acetals to alcohols (O. 

The phosphine adducts of the cobalt xanthates will be described in order of increasing denticity of the phosphine ligand. A five-coordinate trigonal-bipyramidal... 

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