Cyclooctadiene salts

Another recent application of ultrasound to the activation of transition metals was reported (52) by Bonnemann, Bogdavovic, and coworkers. An extremely reactive Mg species was used to reduce metal salts in the presence of cyclopentadiene, 1,5-cyclooctadiene, and other ligands to form their metal complexes. The reactive Mg species, characterized as Mg(THF)3(anthracene), was produced from Mg powder in... 

The Diels-Alder adduct of 1,5-cyclooctadiene with hexachlorocyclo-pentadiene was homopolymerized or copolymerized (113) with cyclic olefins using tungsten halide salts with either organoaluminum or organo-tin cocatalyst to give thermally stable flame- and oil-resistant polymers. 

For hydrogenation in water with an inexpensive catalyst, solutions containing cobalt salts and excess cyanide are useful10,11. The catalysts are selective for conjugated C=C bonds and are relatively unreactive with unconjugated dienes such as 1,5-cyclooctadiene. 

Synthesis of antx-a has been done through a ring expansion of cocaine (20), from 1, 5-cyclooctadiene (21) and by intramolecular cyclization between an iminium salt and a nucleophilic carbon atom (22). The structure of antx-a is given in Fig. 1. 

As mentioned earlier, preparation of (Z),( )-l, 5-cyclooctadiene (31) in an optically active modification 2) first demonstrated the chiral nature of ( )-cycloalkenes. In this classical experiment, Cope and coworkers obtained ( + )-31 by the Hofmann elimination of the (-l-)-ammonium salt 30. They were also successful in obtaining (+)-31 by optical resolution of racemic 31 through complexing with a chiral Pt(II)... 

In particular, CVD of the derivatives Cu(hfac)(PMe3),1,2 Cu(hfac)(l,5-cod),3-6 Cu(hfac)(2-butyne),7,8 and Cu(hfac)(vtms),9-12 where 1,5-cod = 1,5-cyclooctadiene and vtms = vinyltrimethylsilane, has been studied in detail. These species can be used to deposit copper films either selectively or nonselectively on various surfaces depending on the nature of the precursor, the deposition conditions, and the substrate surface pretreatment. The syntheses of these species from a general salt elimination reaction according to eq. (2) is described here in detail.10,13,15-17 It should be noted that other general methods of preparation of this class of compounds have been reported elsewhere.18... 

Sodium arylsulfinates and palladium salts react to form arylpaUadium salts and sulfur dioxide. When carried out in the presence of some dienes, stable organopalladium complexes have been obtained. For example, 1,5-cyclooctadiene and sodium p-toluenesulfinate with palladium chloride yields the a,it-complex shown in equation (48).109... 

The mono(diphosphine) complexes, [Rh(dppp)]BF4 and RhCl-(dppp), are less effective than [Rh(dppp)2] + but are still more active than RhCl(PPh3)3. The mono(diphosphine) catalysts also decompose slowly under the reaction conditions, which renders them less useful than the bis(diphosphine) catalysts. The slower rate of decarbonyla-tion observed with the mono(diphosphine) catalysts compared with the bis(diphosphine) catalysts presumably is due to the lower basicity of the former which retards the rate of oxidative addition (vide infra). Consistent with this is the observation that [Rh(COD)(dppp)]BF4 (COD = 1,5-cyclooctadiene) shows a higher rate for catalytic de-carbonylation of benzaldehyde than does [Rh(dppp)]BF4 (22). An additional observation is that the type of anion, Cl or BF4 , has no apparent effect on decarbonylation rates for the bis(diphosphine) catalysts however, for the mono(diphosphine) complexes the chloride salts show slightly lower rates than their tetrafluoroborate analogues. 

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