Hydrosilylation platinum hydride complexes

Hydride complexes of platinum have received considerable study since the preparation of PtHCl(PEt3)2- Spectroscopic studies by NMR techniques have been widely used because of the structural information which can be obtained from coupling constant data to Pt and other nuclei. Platinum is widely used as a heterogeneous catalyst, and vibrational studies on platinum hydride complexes have been useful for comparison of a hydrogen atom bonded to a single platinum with that bonded to a surface. Complexes of platinum have been used to catalyze hydrogenation, hydrosilylation and isomerization reactions with alkenes and alkynes, as well as H/D exchange reactions on alkanes. Hydride complexes are frequently proposed as intermediates in these reactions, and the pathways related to the known chemistry of hydride complexes. 

Photolysis of ( -cp)PtMe3 in the presence of a silane (SiR3H) leads to the formation of an active hydrosilylation catalyst that is believed to be a platinum colloid. It is likely that the intermediate complex ( / -cp)PtMe(SiR3)H is formed, and converts into colloidal Pt and a bis(silyl) platinum hydride complex. ... 

Following this oxidative addition, insertion of the olefin or alkyne occurs into the platinum-hydride bond to form an alkyl or vinyl hydride complex. The regioselectivity of the insertion step and the chemistry of the alkyl silyl complexes control the overall regioselectivity of the hydrosilylation of olefins. Recall that these platinum catalysts form terminal alkylsilane products. This regioselectivity indicates that insertions of terminal olefins occur in order to generate a linear alkylplatinum intermediate. Apparently, the insertions of styrene and acrylic acid derivatives into the platinum hydride in these catalysts occur with the same regiochemistry. 

The addition of Si—H bonds and the reactions of silyls with platinum complexes is of significance because of the early discovery of chloroplatinic acid as a hydrosilylation catalyst.53 This section focuses on the formation of hydrides from silanes. 

Hydrosilylation is by far the most important route for obtaining monomers and other precursors to fluorinated polysiloxanes. Hydrosylilation80 is the addition of silicon hydride moiety across an unsaturated linkage using transition metal complexes of platinum or rhodium such as Speier s catalyst, hexachloroplatinic acid in isopro-... 

Thicker sections can be cross-linked by hydrosilylation addition. This is the same chemistry used to produce fluorosilicone monomers with the vinyl functionality present on silicon. The catalyst reaction occurs between a vinyl group and silicone hydride.66 The advantage of this system is that it does not produce volatile by-products. On the other hand, the disadvantage is that it is available only as a two-part system.67 Recently, however, one-part, platinum-catalyzed products have been developed.66 The reaction is very rapid and at room temperature it is completed in 10 to 30 minutes. It is accelerated with increasing temperature and at 150°C (302°F) it is completed within a few seconds. This makes the compounds ideal for fast automated injection molding operations.68 One-part systems use the chemical complexing of the catalyst, which is activated at elevated temperatures, or its encapsulation into an impermeable shell, which is solid at room temperature and melts at elevated temperatures68... 

The silicon hydrides do not spontaneously add to alkenes either. However, the hydrosilation, or hydrosilylation reaction, of olefins is of significant utility in the preparation of alkyl-subtituted silanes with the use of either radical or transition metal catalysis. The preferred metal catalysts for hydrosilation are platinum complexes. Chloro-platinic acid will catalyze hydrosilations with halosilanes, alkylarylhalosilanes, alkoxy-silanes, and siloxanes that in many cases are quantitative under ambient conditions. Yields and conversions are generally poorer for alkyl,- and arylsilanes. Many other coordination complexes have been found to catalyze the hydrosilation reaction, and these can provide certain advantages, particularly in regiochemistry. Some typical hydrosilation reactions are shown in Table... 

The silicone hydride based crosslinking system overcomes both drawbacks. The plastic phase does not degrade and the catalyst used for the crosslinking system is not hygroscopic. Hydrosilation (or hydrosilylation) is the addition of an H-Si bond across a double bond. The crosslinking is catalyzed by platinum and other metal complexes as shown in Scheme 3.4 [19]. 

The insertions of olefins into metal-silyl complexes is an important step in the hydrosi-lylation of olefins, and the insertions of olefins and alkynes into metal-boron bonds is likely to be part of the mechanism of the diborations and sUaborations of substrates containing C-C multiple bonds. Other reactions, such as the dehydrogenative sUylation of olefins can also involve this step. Several studies imply that the rhodium-catalyzed hydrosilylations of olefins occur by insertion of olefins into rhodium-silicon bonds, while side products from palladium- and platinum-catalyzed hydrosilylations are thought to form by insertion of olefins into the metal-sihcon bonds. In particular, vinylsilanes are thought to form by a sequence involving olefin insertion into the metal-silicon bond, followed by p-hydrogen elimination (Chapter 10) to form the metal-hydride and vinylsilane products. 

Formation of a siloxane network via hydrosilylation can also be initiated by a free-radical mechanism (300-302). A photochemical route makes use of photosensitizers such as peresters to generate radicals in the system. Unfor-timately, the reaction is quite sluggish. Several complexes of platinum such as (jj-cyclopentadienyl)trialkylplatinum(rV) compoimds have been found to be photoactive. The mixture of silicone polymer containing alkenyl functional groups with silicon hydride cross-linker materials and a catalytic amoimt of a cy-clopentadienylplatinum(IV) compound is stable in the dark. Under UV radiation, however, the platinum complex imdergoes rapid decomposition with release of platinum species that catalyze rapid hydrosilylation and network formation (303-308). Other UV-active hydrosilylation catalyst precursors include (acetylacetonate)Pt(CH3)3 (309), (acetylacetonate)2Pt (310-312), platinum tri-azene compounds (313,314), and other sytems (315,316). 

Due to its low melting point (30 °C), complex Pt( 7 -GsH4Me)Me3 has been widely employed as a precursor for platinum thin films using both chemical-vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) techniques. This complex also exhibits high values of absolute photochemical efficiency (cr) (0.34 methylcyclohexane 0.41 -pentane) following excitation at 313 and 366 nm, and even higher in the presence of SiHEts (0.79-0.85), and its efficiency as an effective photoinitiator for hydrosilylation reactions in vinyl/hydride silicone mixtures has been demonstrated. ... 

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