Conjugated dienes rhodium-catalyzed

The addition of allcenes to alkenes can also be accomplished by bases as well as by the use of catalyst systems consisting of nickel complexes and alkylaluminum compounds (known as Ziegler catalysts), rhodium catalysts, and other transition metal catalysts, including iron. These and similar catalysts also catalyze the 1,4 addition of alkenes to conjugated dienes, for example. 

W. Chew Exploratory Chemometric Studies of Unmodified Rhodium Catalyzed Conjugate Diene Hydroformyla-tions via in situ FTIR Spectroscopy, PhD Thesis, National University of Singapore, 2003. 

Since conjugated dienes form stable rc-allyl complexes with [Co(CO)4]2, they undergo hydroformylation very slowly to give saturated monoaldehydes in low yields.8 Mixtures of mono- and dialdehydes are usually formed in rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylations.71 72 Saturated monoaldehydes were isolated, however, when 1,3-butadiene and 1,3-pentadiene were hydroformylated in the presence of rhodium dioxide.70... 

Catalytic hydroboration is a new methodology of great synthetic potential. The reaction is usually carried out with catecholborane in the presence of rhodium, palladium, iridium and ruthenium compounds.2 In contrast to olefins, very little is known on catalytic hydroboration of conjugated dienes and enynes. Our earlier studies on the uncatalyzed monohydroboration of conjugated dienes,6 reports on the hydroboration of 1-decene with catecholborane catalyzed by lanthanide iodides,7 and monohydroboration of 1,3-enynes in the presence of palladium compounds,8 prompted us to search for other transition metal catalysts for monohydroboration of conjugated dienes and enynes 9 10... 

In contrast to olefins, little is known on catalytic hydroboration of conjugated dienes. Suzuki and Miyaura20 described a 1,4-addition of catecholborane to acyclic 1,3-dienes, catalyzed with tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)pa]ladium(0). An interesting Markovnikov type regioselectivity was observed in the enantioselective dihydroboration of (E)-1-phenyl-1,3-butadiene with catecholborane, catalyzed by chiral rhodium complexes.21 However, the scope of these reactions is not well known, and the choice of catalysts is very limited. 

The acid-catalyzed hydrocarboxylation of alkenes (the Koch reaction) can be performed in a number of ways. In one method, the alkene is treated with carbon monoxide and water at 100-350°C and 500-1000-atm pressure with a mineral acid catalyst. However, the reaction can also be performed under milder conditions. If the alkene is first treated with CO and catalyst and then water added, the reaction can be accomplished at 0-50°C and 1-100 atm. If formic acid is used as the source of both the CO and the water, the reaction can be carried out at room temperature and atmospheric pressure.The formic acid procedure is called the Koch-Haaf reaction (the Koch-Haaf reaction can also be applied to alcohols, see 10-77). Nearly all alkenes can be hydrocarboxylated by one or more of these procedures. However, conjugated dienes are polymerized instead. Hydrocarboxylation can also be accomplished under mild conditions (160°C and 50 atm) by the use of nickel carbonyl as catalyst. Acid catalysts are used along with the nickel carbonyl, but basic catalysts can also be employed. Other metallic salts and complexes can be used, sometimes with variations in the reaction procedure, including palladium, platinum, and rhodium catalysts. The Ni(CO)4-catalyzed oxidative carbonylation with CO and water as a nucleophile is often called Reppe carbonylationP The toxic nature of nickel... 

Rhodium trichloride catalyzes the addition of ethylene or propylene to a conjugated diene such as butadiene-1,3, for example 1... 

The hydroformylation of conjugated dienes such as 1,3-butadiene, isoprene, and 1,3-pentadiene gives mixtures of regioisomers, isomerized aldehydes, and dialdehydes depending on the conditions and catalysts used. The reaction of 1,3-butadiene provides 1,6-hexanedial and has relevance to nylon produc-The reaction of 1,3-cyclohexadiene catalyzed by a rhodium complex... 

Both, Hayashi and Carreira developed, independently, chiral dienes as novel ligands in asymmetric catalysis (Figure 8.6) [66]. Early investigations by Miyaura revealed that the rhodium-catalyzed conjugate addition of arylboronic acids to a,P-unsaturated ketones could be very efficiently catalyzed by a rhodium(I) complex of cyclooctadiene [67]. As a consequence, the development of chiral cod-analogues... 

Rhodium-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Alkynes and Conjugated Dienes... 

Several independent protocols using a combination of transition metal-catalyzed stereoselective hydrosilylation, such as palladium-catalyzed crosscoupling sequence leading to stereodefined r-conjugated alkene derivatives, have been successfully developed in the last decade (4). Alkenylsilanes or siloxanes, prepared via platinum or rhodium complex-catalyzed intermolecular hydrosilylation of terminal alkynes have been highly stereospecifically cross-coupled with aryl and alkenyl halides to give unsymmetrical stilbenes, alkenylbenzenes, and conjugated dienes (Scheme 24) (4). 

The rhodium-catalyzed conjugation reaction also proceeded well in the presence of ionic liquids [30] or in aqueous biphasic solutions using a water-soluble Rh(TPPMS) (TPPMS = triphenylphosphine monosulfate) catalyst and the surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) [31]. In this manner, all diene and triene components of sunflower, peanut, sesame, soybean, linseed, and rapeseed oil were converted to form 82-100% of conjugated products. Absolutely no nonconju-gated isomers remained. 

Conjugated dienes can be selectively hydrated to ketones in the presence of cationic ruthenium complexes with bipyridyl ligands. The role of ruthenium is to catalyze the isomerization of allylic alcohols formed by the addition of water to diene. This method allows one to convert butadiene to methyl ethyl ketone in high yield [187]. Hydration of triple bonds is one of the oldest catalytic processes of organic chemistry. Though this reaction has no industrial value, it can serve as a tool of fine organic synthesis. The hydration can be catalyzed by rhodium salts under phase-transfer conditions [188]. The more exotic process of the hydrolysis of phenylacetylene to toluene and carbon monoxide catalyzed by ruthenium complex should also be mentioned [189] ... 

Increasing the concentration of triphenylphosphane was found to accelerate the rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation of conjugated dienes, such as isoprene and myrcene. The hydroformylation of the nonconjugated diene, limonene, followed a contrary tendency common to the most of alkenes [57,58]... 

The scope of synthetically interesting acceptors that can be functionalized in the rhodium/diene-catalyzed conjugate addition has been expanded considerably since the initial reports (Figure 8.10). Today, the range comprises not only a,P-unsaturated esters 105, which are particularly well suited for heterocychc-substi-tuted substrates [91], but also a,p-unsaturated Weinreb amides 106, which have found wide appHcation [92]. Both classes of acceptors allow straightforward modification of the resulting adducts. The use of P-silyl-substituted a,P-unsaturated carbonyl compounds 107 as acceptors is of special interest as these compounds can be transformed to P-hydroxyketones via Tamao-Fleming oxidation [93]. 

Figure 8.10 Suitable acceptors for rhodium/diene-catalyzed conjugate arylation.

In rhodimn catalyzed hydroformylation the effect is less drastic and often remains imobserved, but surely diene impurities obscure the kinetics of alkene hydroformylation [42]. Because the effect is often only temporary we summarize it here under dormant sites . Hydroformylation of conjugated alkadienes is much slower than that of alkenes, but also here alkadienes are more reactive tiian alkenes toward rhodium hydrides [43, 44]. Stable tc-allyl complexes are formed that undergo very slowly insertion of carbon monoxide (Figure 17). The resting state of the catalyst wBl be a Ji-allyl species and less rhodium hydride is available for alkene hydroformylation. Thus, alkadienes must be thoroughly removed as described by Garland [45], especially in kinetic studies. It seems likely that 1,3- and 1,2-diene impurities in 1 -alkenes will slow down, if not inhibit, the hydroformylation of alkenes. 

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