Hydrogen activating rhodium

The mechanism of alkene hydrogenation catalyzed by the neutral rhodium complex RhCl(PPh3)3 (Wilkinson s catalyst) has been characterized in detail by Halpern [36-38]. The hydrogen oxidative addition step involves initial dissociation of PPI13, which enhances the rate of hydrogen activation by a factor... 

Oheme and co-workers investigated335 in an aqueous micellar system the asymmetric hydrogenation of a-amino acid precursors using optically active rhodium-phosphine complexes. Surfactants of different types significantly enhance both activity and enantioselectivity provided that the concentration of the surfactants is above the critical micelle concentration. The application of amphiphilized polymers and polymerized micelles as surfactants facilitates the phase separation after the reaction. Table 2 shows selected hydrogenation results with and without amphiphiles and with amphiphilized polymers for the reaction in Scheme 61.335... 

Nielson125 reports the synthesis of 7-((V-aIkylamino)- and T-(N,N-di-alkylamino)-l,3,5-triazaadamantanes by reductive alkylation of 94, which is obtained from 91 by an improved hydrogenation procedure (rhodium-charcoal catalyst, 25.5 psi). Paper chromatography54 and the Kovats indices and relative elution volumes of 1,3,5-triazaadamantane derivatives are measured.55 7-Amino-l,3,5-triazaadamantane is used as a vulcanization accelerator.127 7-(N,N-Dialkylamino)-l,3,5-triazaadamantanes are utilized as a new class of high-density fuel (DIADAM).128 Some 7-substituted 1,3,5-triazaadamantanes have bacteriostatic and fungistatic activity.129 7-Bromo-,... 

More recently, during research aimed at supporting the highly linear selective hydroformylation catalyst [Rh(H)(Xantphos)(CO)2] onto a silica support, the presence of a cationic rhodium precursor in equilibrium with the desired rhodium hydride hydroformylation catalyst was observed. The presence of this complex gave the resulting catalyst considerable hydrogenation activity such that high yields of linear nonanol could be obtained from oct-1-ene by domino hy-droformylation-reduction reaction [75]. 

An effective catalyst recycling with no loss of catalytic activity was accomplished by removing the liquid phase via the liquid sampling valve and re-charging the autoclave with a solution containing the substrate. In all cases, no rhodium leaching occurred. Remarkably, the hydrogenation activity of the 1,3-bis-... 

Scheme 22.19 Mechanistic studies involving hydrogen-deuterium crossover experiments, along with the observance of non-conjugated cycloisomerization products, suggest that rhodium (III) metallocyclopentene formation occurs in advance of hydrogen activation.

Complex 9 (Scheme 43.3) can be reduced by different redox equivalents to the active rhodium(I) species 10 namely, by electrons, formate [37, 38], and hydrogen. This hydrido complex then transfers the hydride ion onto the nicotinamide. In electrochemical applications, TOFs in the range of 5 to 11 h-1 have been reported [31, 39]. It is noteworthy that this complex accepts NAD+ and NADP+ as substrates with the same efficiency and almost exclusively produces the 1,4-reduced cofactor (selectivity >99%). 

Acetonitrile is another solvent that may retard the reaction. Although no cases of inhibition by acetonitrile have been described in the literature, we usually find no hydrogenation activity at all when using rhodium/MonoPhos catalysts in this solvent Presumably, this is true for most transition metal catalysts. 

W. S. Knowles, M. J. Sabacky, Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation employing a Soluble, Optically Active, Rhodium Complex, J. Client Soc, Client Commurt 1968, 1445-1446. 

Besides solid transition metals, certain soluble transition-metal complexes are active hydrogenation catalysts.4. The most commonly used example is tris(triphenylphosphine)-chlororhodium, which is known as Wilkinson s catalyst.5 This and related homogeneous catalysts usually minimize exchange and isomerization processes. Hydrogenation by homogeneous catalysts is believed to take place by initial formation of a rc-complex, followed by transfer of hydrogen from rhodium to carbon. 

Species II and III (Reaction 3) were postulated to account for the catalytic behavior of these systems species II, for the amine-promoted hydrogenation activity, and species III, for continued hydroformylation activity in the presence of amine. In continuous flow experiments on polyDMBA catalysts, rhodium retention was reported to be good (9) with... 

The reaction of [Rh2Cl2(CgHi4)4] with 2-aminopyridine led to a species believed to be a cationic solvated rhodium(I)-aminopyridine complex. This was more active than [RhCl(PPh3)3] or [RuH(Cl)(PPh3)3] for the hydrogenation of cyclohexene. The mechanism was thought to involve oxidative addition of hydrogen to rhodium(I) prior to alkene coordination.143... 

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