Homogeneous catalyst Heck reaction

Typically, the Pd species for Heck couplings are homogeneous catalysts, stabilized by air-sensitive ligands. They present economic and environmental problems regarding separation, regeneration and reuse. These difficulties can be diminished with heterogeneous catalysts that are more easily recoverable from the reaction mixture. As mentioned in Sect. 2.6, a catalyst consisting of palladium metal deposited on por-... 

In Figure 13.19 we have shown a route to L-699,392 published by Merck involving three steps based on homogeneous catalysts, viz. two Heck reactions and one asymmetric hydrogen transfer reaction, making first an alcohol and subsequently a sulphide [21], Stoichiometric reductions for the ketone function have been reported as well [22] and the Heck reaction on the left-hand side can be replaced by a classic condensation reaction. L-699,392 is used in the treatment of asthma and related diseases. 

The Mizoroki-Heck reaction in liquid imidazolium salts as the solvent is a special case of an in situ system Under the reaction conditions NHC complexes of palladium are formed as the active catalyst from the solvent and the ligand-free palladium precursor. In general, ionic liquids are novel reaction media for homogeneous catalysis. They allow easy separation of product and catalyst after the reaction. ... 

Palladium-catalyzed Heck reactions are important in synthetic organic chemistry (253,254). Under conventional reaction conditions, a palladium black deposit was formed from the deterioration of the homogeneous palladium complex catalyst after the reaction. Recovery and recycle of the palladium catalyst are usually not realistic. 

In contrast, ionic liquids have been reported to be suitable solvents for Heck reactions because the products can be readily separated from the ionic liquids containing the homogeneous palladium catalysts. An early test with a palladium complex in ionic liquids showed remarkably improved recyclability of the catalyst (255), but palladium black still formed after several runs with recycled catalyst. 

The choice of an ionic liquid was shown to be critical in experiments with [NBuJBr (TBAB, m.p. 110°C) as a catalyst carrier to isolate a cyclometallated complex homogeneous catalyst, tra .s-di(ri-acetato)-bis[o-(di-o-tolylphosphino) benzyl] dipalladium (II) (Scheme 26), which was used for the Heck reaction of styrene with aryl bromides and electron-deficient aryl chlorides. The [NBu4]Br displayed excellent stability for the reaction. The recycling of 1 mol% of palladium in [NBu4]Br after the reaction of bromobenzene with styrene was achieved by distillation of the reactants and products from the solvent and catalyst in vacuo. Sodium bromide, a stoichiometric salt byproduct, was left in the solvent-catalyst system. High catalytic activity was maintained even after the formation of visible palladium black after a fourth run and after the catalyst phase had turned more viscous after the sixth run. The decomposition of the catalyst and the formation of palladium... 

The effective removal of residual palladium has become one of the most critical issues in the implementation of homogeneously catalyzed Heck reactions in industrial syntheses, particularly in the production of pharmaceuticals, in which tight specifications (sometimes less than 0.5 ppm Pd) must be met. Only very few scalable, inexpensive removal techniques are known [47], for example, binding of Pd to N-acetylcysteine and removal of the adduct by extraction or crystallization [48], When such practical, inexpensive separation and recycling tools for palladium catalysts have been fully developed and industrially implemented, the Heck reaction will certainly find commercial use to the large extent that would be expected from its enormous synthetic utility. 

Utilisation of transition metal benzothiazol-2-yMene and especially thiazol-2-ylidene complexes in homogenous catalysis reactions are very rare [42-44], Calo et al. reported the use of bis-(3-methyl-benzothiazol-2-ylidene) palladium diiodide in the Heck reaction of aryl bromides and iodides with a catalyst loading of down to KU mol% and near quantitative yields [42,44],... 

Phosphine free catalysts and halogen-free reactions are known for the Heck reaction. Improvements on the palladium catalyst system are constantly being reported, including polymer-supported catalysts." °° The influence of the ligand has been examined." Efforts have been made to produce a homogeneous catalyst for the Heck reaction." The Heck reaction can be done in aq. media," ° in perfluori-nated solvents," in polyethylene glycol," ° in neat tricaprylmethylammonium... 

The first studies that intentionally used colloidal nanocatalysts were reported independently by Beller et al. [50] and Reetz et al. [51] using chemical reduction and electrochemical techniques, respectively, to synthesize colloidal palladium nanoparticles for the Heck reaction. Both Beller and Reetz concluded that the solution-phase catalysis occurred on the surface of the nanoparticle, without confirming that a homogeneous catalytic pathway was nonexistent. Le Bars et al. [52] demonstrated an inverse relationship between the size of Pd nanoparticles and the TOF (normalized to the total number of surface atoms) for the Heck reaction (Fig. 18.4a). After normalizing the rate to the density of defect sites (for each nanoparticle size) (Fig. 18.4b), the TOF for all particle sizes was identical. Colloidal PVP-capped palladium nanoparticles synthesized by ethanol reduction are effective catalysts for Suzuki cross-coupling reactions in aqueous solution [53]. The El-Sayed group reported that the initial rate of reaction increased linearly with the concentration of Pd nanoparticles [53] and the catalytic activity was inversely proportional to the... 

An interesting approach to overcome these limits and thus combine the advantages of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis is that of supported liquid phase catalysts (SLPC or SLP). In SLPC the organometallic complex active components are dissolved in a small quantity of liquid phase dispersed in the form of an isle or film on the surface of supports. A SLPC has been applied successfully for several chemical transformations [113], particularly in the Wacker-type ethylene oxidation to acetaldehyde and vinyl acetate production by ethylene acetoxylation [114], and in other reactions catalyzed by Pd-complexes such as the Heck reaction [115]. 

A supported palladium catalyst for the Heck reaction (5.13) could be reused several times with little loss in activity.39 Heterogeneous catalysts for the Heck reaction, such as palladium on silica and platinum on alumina can perform just as well in the Heck reaction as homogeneous catalysts.40... 

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