Homogeneous catalysis organometallics

Keywords AIMD Explicit solvent Homogeneous catalysis Organometallic reactivity QM/MM-MD... 

A concise summary of chemistry of technologically important reactions catalysed by organometallic complexes in solution. Cornils B and Herrmann W A (eds) 1996 Applied Homogeneous Catalysis with Organometallio Compounds (Weinheim VCH) A two-volume, multiauthored account with emphasis on industrial applications. 

Applied Homogeneous Catalysis with Organometallic Complexes, (B. Cornils and W. A. Herrmann eds.), VCH, Weinheim, 1996. 

Steric effects of phosphorus ligands in organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis. C. A. Tolman, Chem. Rev., 1977, 77, 313-348 (298). 

Kaminsky W, Arndt M (1996) Reactions of unsaturated compounds. In Cornils B, Herrmann WA (eds) Applied homogeneous catalysis with organometallic compounds, vol 1. VCH, Weinheim, p 220... 

The pre.sent account follows a Journey in this arena from solution calorimetric studies dealing with nucleophilic carbene ligands in an organometallic system to the use of these thermodynamic data in predicting the feasibility of exchange reactions to applications in homogeneous catalysis. 

Much of the recent interest in insertion reactions undeniably stems from the emphasis placed on development of homogeneous catalysis as a rational discipline. One or more insertion is involved in such catalytic processes as the hydroformylation (31) or the polymerization of olefins 26, 75) and isocyanides 244). In addition, many insertion reactions have been successfully employed in organic and organometallic synthesis. The research in this general area has helped systematize a large body of previously unrelated facts and opened new areas of chemistry for investigation. Heck 114) and Lappert and Prokai 161) provide a comprehensive compilation and a systematic discussion of a wide variety of insertion reactions in two relatively recent (1965 and 1967) reviews. 

Dinjus, E., Fornika, R., Fitter, S., and Zevaco, T. (2002) Carbon dioxide as a Cl building block, in Applied Homogeneous Catalysis with Organometallic Compounds, vol. 3 (eds B. Comils and W.A. Herrmann), 2nd edn, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, pp. 1189-1213. 

Note that, while this reaction (as well as alkane hydrogenolysis) involves known elementary steps of molecular organometallic chemistry, it has not been discovered in homogeneous catalysis. One reason might be that highly... 

B. Comils and W. A. Herrmann, m Applied homogeneous catalysis with organometallic compounds a comprehensive handbook in three volumes,... 

Frohhning, C. D. Kohlpaintner, C. W. Applied Homogeneous Catalysis with Organometallic Compounds Cornils, B., Herrmann, W. A., Eds. Springer-Verlag New York, 1996 pp 29-90. 

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