Insertion, migratory involving

Although no 1,2-migratory insertion is involved, aryldiazonium salts have been used to generate organopalladium derivatives via extrusion of a small molecule (i.e., (Scheme 23). 

Migratory insertion reactions involving olefins, that is, reactions of H/D exchange, isomerization, cis-trans isomerization, hydroformylation and other 0x0 syntheses. 

Migratory Insertion Reactions Involving CO, CO2 or Isonitriles. DF calculations on the reaction of CO with Cp2ZrMc2 show that CO binds laterally and... 

The Mizoroki-Heck reaction is a metal catalysed transformation that involves the reaction of a non-functionalised olefin with an aryl or alkenyl group to yield a more substituted aUcene [11,12]. The reaction mechanism is described as a sequence of oxidative addition of the catalytic active species to an aryl halide, coordination of the alkene and migratory insertion, P-hydride elimination, and final reductive elimination of the hydride, facilitated by a base, to regenerate the active species and complete the catalytic cycle (Scheme 6.5). 

A plausible mechanism proposed for this reaction involves migratory insertion of an olefin into the Pd-Si bond of a paUadium-silyl intermediate I followed by migratory insertion of the pendant olefin into the resulting Pd-C bond of II forming palladium-alkyl intermediate III. Reaction of Iff with hydrosilane releases the carbocy-cle to regenerate the palladium-silyl complex I (Scheme 3-21) [61]. 

The gas-phase reaction of cationic zirconocene species, ZrMeCp2, with alkenes and alkynes was reported to involve two major reaction sequences, which are the migratory insertion of these unsaturated hydrocarbons into the Zr-Me bond (Eq. 3) and the activation of the C-H bond via er-bonds metathesis rather than /J-hydrogen shift/alkene elimination (Eq. 4) [130,131]. The insertion in the gas-phase closely parallels the solution chemistry of Zr(R)Cp2 and other isoelec-tronic complexes. Thus, the results derived from calculations based on this gas-phase reactivity should be correlated directly to the solution reactivity (vide infra). 

Possible mechanisms for this reaction are shown in Scheme 8. Pathway I involves an initial cleavage of the VCP (5C to 5D) followed by migratory insertion of the alkyne (5D to 5G), whereas pathway II involves first oxidative cyclization... 

The catalytic cycle proposed for the cyclization-hydrosilylation with the cationic palladium catalyst is classified into the type D in Scheme 2. The reaction consists of an olefin insertion into palladium-silicon bond and the metathesis between palladium-carbon and hydrogen-silicon bond, regenerating the silylpalladium intermediate and releasing the product where migratory insertion of the pendant olefin into the alkylpalladium is involved before the metathesis (Scheme 26).83a... 

The accepted mechanism for hydrogenation of alkenes by Wilkinson s catalyst involves the addition of dihydrogen prior to coordination of the alkene, followed by migratory insertion [31]. The new demonstrations of the existence of solvate dihydride complexes inevitably raise the question as to whether the same mechanism can apply in rhodium enantioselective hydrogenation. The evidence in support of this possibility is analyzed in more detail later. 

An informative set of calculations was carried out by Brandt et al, coupled to experimental studies that demonstrated first-order dependence of the turnover rate on both catalyst and H2, and zero-order dependence on alkene (a-methyl-(E)-stilbene) concentration [71]. The incentive for this investigation was the absence of any characterized advanced intermediates on the catalytic pathway. As a result of the computation, a catalytic cycle (for ethene) was proposed in which H2 addition to iridium was followed by alkene coordination and migratory insertion. The critical difference in this study was the proposal that a second molecule of H2 is involved that facilitates formation of the Ir alkylhydride intermediate. In addition, the reductive elimination of R-H and re-addition of H2 are concerted. This postulate was subsequently challenged. For hydrogenation of styrene by the standard Pfaltz catalyst, ES-MS analysis of the intermediates formed at different stages in the catalytic cycle revealed only Ir(I) and Ir(III) species, supporting a cycle (at least under low-pressure conditions in the gas... 

Alkylzirconocene derivatives can be converted to alcohols with H202/NaOH, /BuOOH, or m-chloroperbenzoic acid (m-CPBA) [98], These reactions appear to involve migratory insertion processes (Pattern 14) similar to those observed with organoboranes (Scheme 1.20). On the other hand, oxidation with 02 may be a radical process. 

Aside from two-center (Patterns 1 and 2) and three-center (Patterns 3, 4, 11, and 12) processes, most of the processes shown in Scheme 1.3 are four-center processes involving either addition (Patterns 5—10) or 0-bond metathesis (Pattern 13). In this context, it should be noted that addition is simply a four-center metathesis in which one molecule happens to be multiply-bonded. In addition to these metathetical processes, there is yet another fundamentally important four-center metathetical process termed migratory insertion and deinsertion (Patterns 14 and 15). It should be clear from Patterns 14 and 15 shown in Scheme 1.3 that distinction between insertion and deinsertion is only a relative and semantic issue. In the current discussion, a process involving cleavage of the C—Zr bond is termed migratory insertion, while the reverse process is termed migratory deinsertion. 

The proposed mechanism involves the usual oxidative addition of the aryl halide to the Pd(0) complex affording a Pd(II) intermediate (Ar-Pd-Hal), subsequent coordination of allene 8 and migratory insertion of the allene into the Pd-C bond to form the jt-allylpalladium(II) species 123. A remarkable C-C bond cleavage of 123 leads by decarbopalladation to 1,3-diene 120 and a-hydroxyalkylpalladium species 124. /8-H elimination of 124 affords aldehyde 121 and the H-Pd-Hal species, which delivers Pd(0) again by reaction with base (Scheme 14.29). The originally expected cyclization of intermediate 123 by employment of the internal nucleophilic hydroxyl group to form a pyran derivative 122 was observed in a single case only (Scheme 14.29). 

From the energetically preferred n-alkyne complex there is an alternative pathway involving the hydride ligand (Figure 5). The first step is an easy (AE = 6.6 kcal.mol 1) migratory insertion of the C=C triple bond into the cis Ru-H bond to yield a a-vinyl complex, A, 10.4 kcal.mol 1 below the it-alkyne complex. This 14-electron o-vinyl complex has also a saw-horse... 

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