Hydrogen Transfer Catalysis

TABLE 2.9 Transfer Hydrogenation of Dimethyl Ester of 1,2-Dicarboxybicycloheptadene 

FIGURE 2.40 Order of ability of hydrogen donors to furnish hydrogen. 

Steric hindrance makes this harder to adsorb, but once 

Growing interest in membrane catalysis has been stimulated by industry s dual desires to attain high selectivities and overcome thermodynamic constraints. 

FIGURE 2.42 Hydrogen transfer hydrogenations using chiral hydrogen donors. 

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HTC (2) [Hydrogen transfer catalysis] A catalytic process for reducing aromatic nitrocompounds. Developed by Rohner in 1993. 

Liu S, Stephens G, Marr AC et al (2009) Adding value to renewables a one pot process combining microbial cells and hydrogen transfer catalysis to utiUse waste glycerol ftom biodiesel production. Chem Commiin 45(17) 2308-2310... 

Clay-catalyzed dimerization of unsaturated fatty acids appears to be a carbonium ion reaction, based on the observed double bond isomerization, acid catalysis, chain branching, and hydrogen transfer (8,9,11). 

AcCl, NaOH, dioxane, Bu4N HSO, 25°, 30 min, 90% yield. Phase-transfer catalysis with tetra-n-butylammionium hydrogen sulfate effects acylation of sterically hindered phenols and selective acylation of a phenol in the presence of an aliphatic secondary alcohol. 

Fluonnated allylic ethers are prepared under phase-transfer catalysis (PTC) in the presence of tetrabutylammonium hydrogen sulfate (TBAH) fJ] (equation 2)... 

For exchange of non-labile organic hydrogen atoms, acid-base catalysis (or some other catalytic hydrogen-transfer agent such as palladium or platinum) is required. The method routinely gives tritiated products having a specific activity almost 1000 times that obtained by the Wilzbach method shorter times are required (2-12h) and subsequent purification is easier. 

Wawzonek et al. first investigated the mechanism of the cyclization of A-haloamines and correctly proposed the free radical chain reaction pathway that was substantiated by experimental data. "" Subsequently, Corey and Hertler examined the stereochemistry, hydrogen isotope effect, initiation, catalysis, intermediates, and selectivity of hydrogen transfer. Their results pointed conclusively to a free radical chain mechanism involving intramolecular hydrogen transfer as one of the propagation steps. Accordingly, the... 

The reaction of an a-halo sulfone with a base to give an alkene is called the Ramberg-Bdcklund reaction. The reaction is quite general for a-halo sulfones with an (x hydrogen, despite the unreactive nature of a-halo sulfones in normal 8 2 reactions (p. 437). Halogen reactivity is in the order I>Br>Cl. Phase-transfer catalysis has been used. In general, mixtures of cis and trans isomers are obtained, but usually the less stable cis isomer predominates. The mechanism involves formation of an episulfone, and then elimination of SO9. There is much evidence for... 

Cobalt porphyrin complexes are involved in the chain transfer catalysis of the free-radical polymerization of acrylates. Chain transfer catalysis occurs by abstraction of a hydrogen atom from a grow ing polymer radical, in this case by Co(Por) to form Co(Por)H. The hydrogen atom is then transferred to a new monomer, which then initiates a new propagating polymer chain. The reaction steps are shown in Eqs. 12 (where R is the polymer chain. X is CN), (13), and (14)." ... 

With some transition-metal complexes, the ligand is not only an ancillary ligand. Similar to the transition-metal, it takes directly part in the hydrogen transfer process. Such ligand-metal bifunctional hydrogenation catalysis is dramatically changing the face of reduction chemistry (Scheme 9) (for reviews of ligand-metal bifunctional catalysis, see [32, 37 0]). 

The important criterion thus becomes the ability of the enzyme to distort and thereby reduce barrier width, and not stabilisation of the transition state with concomitant reduction in barrier height (activation energy). We now describe theoretical approaches to enzymatic catalysis that have led to the development of dynamic barrier (width) tunneUing theories for hydrogen transfer. Indeed, enzymatic hydrogen tunnelling can be treated conceptually in a similar way to the well-established quantum theories for electron transfer in proteins. 

Heteropoly acids can be synergistically combined with phase-transfer catalysis in the so-called Ishii-Venturello chemistry for oxidation reactions such as oxidation of alcohols, allyl alcohols, alkenes, alkynes, P-unsaturated acids, vic-diols, phenol, and amines with hydrogen peroxide (Mizuno et al., 1994). Recent examples include the epoxidations of alkyl undecylenates (Yadav and Satoskar, 1997) and. styrene (Yadav and Pujari, 2000). 

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