Hydrogenolysis rate determining step

Most hydroformylation investigations reported since 1960 have involved trialkyl or triarylphosphine complexes of cobalt and, more recently, of rhodium. Infrared studies of phosphine complex catalysts under reaction conditions as well as simple metal carbonyl systems have provided substantial information about the postulated mechanisms. Spectra of a cobalt 1-octene system at 250 atm pressure and 150°C (21) contained absorptions characteristic for the acyl intermediate C8H17COCo(CO)4 (2103 and 2002 cm-1) and Co2(CO)8. The amount of acyl species present under these steady-state conditions increased with a change in the CO/ H2 ratio in the order 3/1 > 1/1 > 1/3. This suggests that for this system under these conditions, hydrogenolysis of the acyl cobalt species is a rate-determining step. 

Kinetic studies show that insertion (the enantioselection step) is very rapid, and that the rate-determining step is the hydrogenolysis of the M-C bond. Nonetheless, under H2-starving conditions, there is evidence that fi- I elimination can be competitive with hydrogenolysis. />-H elimination of the alkyl intermediate gives back the starting alkene and, through an equilibration process, it... 

In 2004 Caporali investigated the hydroformylation of 1-hexene and cyclohexene using HRh(CO)(PPh3)3 [61]. The collected data indicated that the rate-determining step in the hydroformylation cycle depends upon the structure of the olefin. With an alpha-olefin like 1-hexene, the slowest step seems to be the hydrogenolysis of the acyl rhodium complex. In the presence of cyclohexene as a model for an internal olefin, the rate-determining step is the reaction of the olefin with the rhodium hydride complex (intermediate II in Fig. 6). 

The kinetic studies of the hydrogenolysis of DPM indicate that both the DPM and hydrogen are adsorbed on the same kind of active sites on the catalyst. Also, the rate-determining step of the hydrogenolysis is a surface reaction between adsorbed DPM and dissociatively adsorbed hydrogen. When the rate equation for DPM is applied to asym DAMs, their reactivities can be satisfactorily explained, and it is suggested that the product selectivity is proportional to the ratio of the adsorption equilibrium constants of the two aryl groups. 

The rate of hydroformylation was proportional to the concentration of the acyl complex. The apparent activation parameters were Ai-T = 49.3 kj mol" and AS = 121 J moT K". Both the activation parameters and the reaction order are consistent with the hydrogenolysis reaction being rate determining. The low order of 0.1 in alkene suggests that the rate-determining step is not purely the reaction with hydrogen and that either a pre-equilibrium also contributes or one of the earlier steps in the cycle is also somewhat slower. 

The hydrogenolysis and isomerization of methyloxirane take place via a mechanism in which hydrogen is involved in the rate-determining step. This reaction occurs on the step sites. 

Hydrogenolysis of adsorbed thiophene (poison) is the rate determining step. Sulfur resistance was Pt > Pt-Ir > Pt-Re.65 66 ... 

Reduction by nucleoi ilic attack of the original metal hydride has been own to occur under stoichiometric reaction conditions, for instance in the reduction of acyl cobalt complexes with CoH(CO) . Kinetic considerations, Imwever, make it unlikely that such a sequence plays a major role in the hydroformylaiion process. In fact, the rate-determining step, corresponding to the hydrogenolysis of the acyl complex, is slowed by an increase of carbon... 

Hydrogenolysis of metal carbonyls, such as Mnj(CO)jg [250 atm (25 MPa), 200°C] or COjCCOg [250 atm (25 MPa), 110°C], leads to metal-metal bond cleavage, forming HMn(CO)j or HCo(CO) The conversion of CoJiCO to HCo(CO) is the rate-determining step in Co-catalyzed hydroformylations at high P and T. Tertiary amines, nitrogen heterocycles, tertiary phosphorus bases or halide ions enhance the rate of HCo(CO) formation e.g., pyridine can increase the rate of HCo(CO).j formation 300-fold at 40°C. 

T-b. Poisoning by adsorption and hydrogenolysis of thiophene, the hydrogenolysis of the adsorbed thiophene being the rate-determining step (ref, 17) ... 

For hydrogenolysis, Leclercq, Leclercq, and Maurel (67) tried to account for the change in order with changing hydrogen pressure by the Cimino model (Scheme 14). They supposed that the rate-determining step involves molecular hydrogen, and they replaced all the equilibrated dehydrogenation steps with an overall equilibrium, with an equilibrium constant 2 ... 

The model proposed by Leclercq, Leclercq, and Maurel, however, like any classical model, does not account for the orders greater than unity that are currently obtained in hydrogenolysis. Moreover, it would account for the positive orders in isomerization only if the rate-determining step involves the participation of hydrogen, as in hydrogenolysis, which is very unlikely. 

---