Transition metal catalysts, hydrogenation

The development of chiral phosphorus ligands has made undoubtedly significant impact on the asymmetric hydrogenation. Transition metal catalysts with efficient chiral phosphorus ligands have enabled the synthesis of a variety of chiral products from prochiral olefins, ketones, and imines in a very efficient manner, and many practical hydrogenation processes have been exploited in industry for the synthesis of chiral drugs and fine chemicals. 

Hydrogen haHde addition to vinyl chloride in general yields the 1,1-adduct (50—52). The reactions of HCl and hydrogen iodide [10034-85-2], HI, with vinyl chloride proceed by an ionic mechanism, while the addition of hydrogen bromide [10035-10-6], HBr, involves a chain reaction in which a bromine atom [10097-32-2] is the chain carrier (52). In the absence of a transition-metal catalyst or antioxidants, HBr forms the 1,2-adduct with vinyl chloride (52). HF reacts with vinyl chloride in the presence of stannic chloride [7646-78-8], SnCl, to form 1,1-difluoroethane [75-37-6] (53). 

Studies on the dimerization and hydrogenation of olefins with transition metal catalysts in acidic chloroaluminate(III) ionic liquids report the formation of higher molecular weight fractions consistent with cationic initiation [L7, 20, 27, 28]. These... 

The Mechanism of the Hydrogenation of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons on Transition Metal Catalysts G. C. Bond and P. B. Wells... 

The Mechanism of Dehydration of Alcohols over Alumina Catalysts Herman Pines and Joost Manassen Complex Adsorption in Hydrogen Exchange on Group VIII Transition Metal Catalysts... 

Stereochemistry and Mechanism of Hydrogenation of Naphthalenes on Transition Metal Catalysts and Conformational Analysis of the Products A. W. Weitkamp... 

Use of transition metal catalysts as 19 selective hydrogenation catalysts (121)... 

These transition-metal catalysts contain electronically coupled hydridic and acidic hydrogen atoms that are transferred to a polar unsaturated species under mild conditions. The first such catalyst was Shvo s diruthenium hydride complex reported in the mid 1980s [41 14], Noyori and Ikatiya developed chiral ruthenium catalysts showing excellent enantioselectivity in the hydrogenation of ketones [45,46]. 

Weitkamp, A.W., Stereochemistry and mechanism of hydrogenation of naphthalene on transition metal catalysts and conformational analysis of the products. Adv. Catal., 18,1-110 (1968). 

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