Isomerization 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. 

Practically all the heavy transition metals can be made to eatalyze olefin isomerization, presumably through transient formation of metal hydrides. A stable platinum hydride has been shown to react with ethylene to form a cT-CjHjPt complex which can eliminate ethylene to regenerate the hydride. The commercially successful processes for the conversion of ethylene to acetaldehyde and ethylene to vinyl acetate via PdClj catalysis have stimulated enormous interest in the mechanism of these reactions, their application to other conversions, and their extension to other catalytic systems. The various stages in the conversion of ethylene are quite well-understood and an important step in the reaction involves hydride migration. The exact role of Pd in the migration has not yet been elucidated. It seems almost certain that the phenomenal interest in the whole area of transition metal isomerization in the last several years will be more than matched by the wealth of work that is certain to pour out of research laboratories in the next few years. 

The insertion takes place more readily on a cationic platinum hydride, and an intermediate tra 5-hydrido-ethylene complex was isolated (Eq. 6.8) [39]. Although the tra 5-hydrido-ethylene complex, having the alkene trans to the high trans influence hydride ligand, is thermodynamically more stable, insertion requires the alkene and hydride ligands to be cis. This isomerization occurs more easily on the cationic acetone complex. 

The intramolecular migration of a hydride to an olefin is fast enough that few complexes contain an olefin and a hydride ligand cis to each other. Some olefin hydride complexes, such as the iridium and platinum examples below, are stable because they contain hydride and olefin Hgands that are mutually trans. These complexes must isomerize before insertion can take place. 

Silyl(pinacol)borane (88) also adds to terminal alkenes in the presence of a coordinate unsaturated platinum complex (Scheme 1-31) [132]. The reaction selectively provides 1,2-adducts (97) for vinylarenes, but aliphatic alkenes are accompanied by some 1,1-adducts (98). The formation of two products can be rationalized by the mechanism proceeding through the insertion of alkene into the B-Pt bond giving 99 or 100. The reductive elimination of 97 occurs very smoothly, but a fast P-hydride elimination from the secondary alkyl-platinum species (100) leads to isomerization to the terminal carbon. 

The rearrangement of platinacyclobutanes to alkene complexes or ylide complexes is shown to involve an initial 1,3-hydride shift (a-elimina-tion), which may be preceded by skeletal isomerization. This isomerization can be used as a model for the bond shift mechanism of isomerization of alkanes by platinum metal, while the a-elimination also suggests a possible new mechanism for alkene polymerisation. New platinacyclobutanes with -CH2 0SC>2Me substituents undergo solvolysis with ring expansion to platinacyclopentane derivatives, the first examples of metallacyclobutane to metallacyclopentane ring expansion. The mechanism, which may also involve preliminary skeletal isomerization, has been elucidated by use of isotopic labelling and kinetic studies. 

Dichloro(l, 3-propanediyl)platinum and its bis(pyridine) derivative have been studied by a number of authors. Dichloro(l,3-propanediyl)platinum, and the corresponding substituted 1,3-propanediyl platinum compounds release the parent cyclopropane on treatment with potassium cyanide, potassium iodide, a tertiary phosphine, carbon monoxide, and other ligands.2,6 Reduction by means of hydrogen or lithium aluminum hydride yields chiefly isomeric substituted propanes. Dichlorobis(pyridine)(l,3-propanediyl)platinum in refluxing benzene yields a pyridinium ylid complex, - (CH3CH2CHNC5Hs)-PtpyCla. 

The intramolecular insertion of a hydride into a coordinated olefin is a crucial step in olefin hydrogenation catalyzed by late transition metal complexes, such as those of iridium, rhodium, and ruthenium (Chapter 15), in hydroformylation reactions catalyzed by cobalt, rhodium, and platinum complexes (Chapter 16), and in many other reactions, including the initiation of some olefin polymerizations. The microscopic reverse, 3-hydride elimination, is the most common pathway for the decomposition of metal-alkyl complexes and is a mechanism for olefin isomerizations. 

Alkenes.—Deuterium exchange of propene with MeOD homogeneously catalysed by complexes of platinum, rhodium, and nickel can be monitored by microwave spectroscopy. The results show considerable incorporation of deuterium at C-2, a result which cannot be accommodated by the 7t-allyl-metal hydride mechanism for exchange/isomerization of olefins. However, the n- or /i -allyl-metal hydride mechanism for olefin isomerization has received some useful supporting evidence. The compound (54) can be generated... 

Both palladium(II) and platinum(II) catalysts are quite efficient in the promotion of nucleophilic addition to a coordinated olefin, but their distinct properties often lead to complementary M-C bond cleavage, pathway required to obtain product. Specifically, as palladium complexes are reactive toward ligand substitution, thus facilitating the p-hydride elimination, in contrast, platinum complexes are relatively inert toward ligand substitution. This facilitates the development of alternative pathways for M-C bond cleavage, such as protonolysis, and reduces the problems caused by competing olefin-isomerization reactions. 

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