Fluorous ligands, examples

Fluorous ligands introduce an ease of purification in that the tagged phosphine ligand, the palladium catalyst complexed ligand, and the oxidized ligand can be completely removed by direct fluorous solid-phase separation (F-SPE) prior to product isolation. Similarly, an example of a fluorous palladium-catalyzed microwave-induced synthesis of aryl sulfides has been reported, whereby the product purification was aided by fluorous solid-phase extraction [91]. 

In another example, the reaction of a Cu(I) complex, [CuCl], with ligand Rfg-TACN 1, provided a fully fluorocarbon-soluble complex 13 (fully characterized) [8b], without appended fluoroponytails on the Cu(I) metal ion [Eq. (2)], isolated from tri-fluoromethylbenzene. This appears to be a general phenomenon with Cu(I) complexes and fluorous ligands, and apparently is predicated on their hydrophobic properties that engender their solubility in hydrophobic solvents, such as fluorocarbons. 

To solve the issue of ligand leaching that was encountered in some of the examples above, fluorous polymeric phosphine ligands 15a-c [28] were developed. The rhodium complexes prepared from 15a-c using a 3 1 ratio of P Rh [28b, 29] displayed good turnover frequencies (TOFs) in the case of 15 a, but reaction rates for 15b,c were lower. The catalyst derived from 15 a was recycled seven times without loss of activity, although leaching was not studied quantitatively. 

The range of ligands developed for ionic liquid catalysis is much smaller than that for other immobilization solvents such as water and fluorous phases as off the shelf ligands and catalysts can often be used in ionic liquids. For example, a number of catalysts that were developed to operate in organic solvents under homogeneous conditions are salts themselves and do not need to be modified for use in ionic liquids [25],... 

A similar reaction has been conducted under fluorous biphasic conditions, using a perfluoroalkylated bipyridine as ligand to ensure that the copper species resides in the fluorous phase [22], The oxidation of a range of primary alcohols to the corresponding aldehydes was found to be possible, an example of which is shown in Scheme 9.11. The catalyst could be successfully recycled by phase separation, with analytically pure products being isolated even after... 

Fluorous-derivatized phosphines have also been used for Heck reactions in scCC>2 together with palladium acetate [7]. The fluorous groups improve the solubility of the catalyst in the SCF compared to nonfluorous ligands. An example of a Heck reaction that uses a fluorous-derivatized phosphine to improve the solubility of a Pd(OAc)2 catalyst is shown in Scheme 10.5. 

More examples are found for varied oxidation processes mainly for various epoxidations carried out by metal catalysts bearing F-modified ligands, such as porphyrins,139 Ru perfluoroacetylacetonate salt,140 or salen complexes,141 142 or using the 3 selenium compound as catalyst.143 The potential for enantioselective transformations offering an easy way to recover precious chiral reagents and catalysts was demonstrated in enantioselective epoxidation using fluorous chiral salen... 

The catalytic performance of the fluoropolymer ligands 1 and 2 was first tested in the fluorous biphase hydroformylation of 1-alkenes, styrene and n-butyl acrylate. The reaction was conducted in a batch reactor in a 40/20/40 vol% hexane/toluene/perfluoromethylcyclohexane solvent mixture (10 mL). The catalyst was formed in situ by adding [Rh(CO)2(acac)] (5 rmol, P/Rh = 6) to the polymer-containing solvent mixture followed by introduction of syngas (30 bar, CO/H2 = 1/1). Table 2 summarises the results obtained. The salient features of the results are Firstly, the activity of the fluorous soluble polymer catalysts are significantly higher than that reported for solid polymer- and aqueous soluble polymer-supported rhodium catalysts.18-22 For example, the average turnover frequency (TOF) for the fluorous biphase hydroformylation of 1-decene is 136 mole aldehyde h-1 per mol of rhodium catalyst with an aldehyde selectivity of 99%. In comparison, a rhodium catalyst supported on the... 

The use of Cu in combination with TEMPO also affords an attractive catalyst [200, 201]. The original system however operates in DMF as solvent and is only active for activated alcohols. Knochel et al. [202] showed that CuBr.Me2S with perfluoroalkyl substituted bipyridine as the ligand and TEMPO as cocatalyst was capable of oxidizing a large variety of primary and secondary alcohols in a fluorous biphasic system of chlorobenzene and perfluorooctane (see Fig. 4.69). In the second example Ansari and Gree [203] showed that the combination of CuCl and TEMPO can be used as a catalyst in l-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate, an ionic liquid, as the solvent. However in this case turnover frequencies were still rather low even for benzylic alcohol (around 1.3 h 1). 

One of the first examples of the use of fluorous solvents in reactions was their use in the extraction of photodegraded solid and liquid wastes contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Fluorinated ligands and scavengers... 

Figure 2 Examples of water, ionic liquid, and fluorous phase soluble ligands.

Scheme 3.3 One example of the synthesis of a fluorous phosphane ligand and one of the variety of reactions catalyzed by fluorous transition metal complexes [18g].

The synthesis of chiral fluorous bisoxazolines is very easy to reproduce. This ligand in association with palladium is an efficient catalyst for the asymmetric catalytic alkylation of l,3-diphenylprop-2-enyl acetate with various carbonucleophiles. Table 3.2 gives some examples of such allylic alkylation. 

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