Isomerization vinylidene

In addition to alcohols, some other nucleophiles such as amines and carbon nucleophiles can be used to trap the acylpalladium intermediates. The o-viny-lidene-/j-lactam 30 is prepared by the carbonylation of the 4-benzylamino-2-alkynyl methyl carbonate derivative 29[16]. The reaction proceeds using TMPP, a cyclic phosphite, as a ligand. When the amino group is protected as the p-toluenesulfonamide, the reaction proceeds in the presence of potassium carbonate, and the f>-alkynyl-/J-lactam 31 is obtained by the isomerization of the allenyl (vinylidene) group to the less strained alkyne. 

The equimolar copolymer of ethylene and tetrafluoroethylene is isomeric with poly(vinyhdene fluoride) but has a higher melting point (16,17) and a lower dielectric loss (18,19) (see Fluorine compounds, organic-poly(VINYLIDENE fluoride)). A copolymer with the degree of alternation of about 0.88 was used to study the stmcture (20). Its unit cell was determined by x-ray diffraction. Despite irregularities in the chain stmcture and low crystallinity, a unit cell and stmcture was derived that gave a calculated crystalline density of 1.9 g/cm. The unit cell is befleved to be orthorhombic or monoclinic (a = 0.96 nm, b = 0.925 nm, c = 0.50 nm 7 = 96%. 

Since Bruce s pioneering work in the area of ruthenium vinylidene chemistry (1), it has been well known that isomerization of a terminal alkyne to a vinylidene on a metal center is not only favorable but also effects a reversal in the reactivity of the carbon atoms. However, hydration catalysis was not possible, because alkyl migration from a proposed acyl intermediate led to an... 

Wakatsuki et al. (4) proposed vinyl complex, 5, and presented DFT results supporting isomerization to a vinylidene hydride as the rate determining step. Our results indicate that the rate determining step involves H-OH bond breaking and that protonation of a bound alkyne is the rate determining step in this... 

This study supports rate-determining H-OH bond breaking, which constrasts with previous reports that identified vinylidene isomerization as the key step in catalytic alkyne activation. The results indicate an enzyme-like mechanism is operative involving cooperative substrate activation by a metal center and proximal hydrogen bond donor/acceptors. In the future we will apply these principles to the activation of additional species. 

In this instance the thermal stability of vinylidene chloride /alkyl acrylate copolymers in which the alkyl groups are isomeric butyl units has been examined by thermogravimetry. The butyl ester comonomers incorporated are shown below (scheme 7). 

Limited studies suggest that the nature of the initiator, azo versus peroxide, used for the preparation of vinylidene chloride copolymers has little influence on the stability of the resulting polymers. The nature of the comonomer incorporated, methyl versus butyl acrylate, also seems to have little impact on the stability of the copolymers generated. The incorporation of isomeric butyl acrylate esters into vinylidene chloride copolymers also displays little impact on the stability of the resulting polymer, beyond that obtained by incorporation of any comonomer, independent of butyl structure. 

Abstract The computational studies of the isomerization of alkyne into vinylidene and... 

Key words DFT, isomerization, alkene, alkyne, carbene, vinylidene. 

These isomerization reactions are of great interest to theoreticians because the role of many factors (metal, substituents on the organic fragment, ancillary ligands) on the outcome of the reaction can be studied through computations. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the theoretical studies carried out on the isomerization of alkyne to vinylidene and alkene to carbene in the presence of transition metal fragments. 

C(sp2)-H energies are close. Likewise, the transformation of an alkene to a substituted carbene corresponds mostly to the loss of the it component of a C=C double bond. The loss of these bonds is clearly costly in energy but a key point to the present story is that the energy cost is different for the two systems. Loss of one of the it bonds of an alkyne corresponds to 40-50 kcal.mol 1, whereas the loss of the it bond in an alkene amounts to 70-80 kcal.mol 1. Therefore the isomerization of primary alkyne to vinylidene and of alkene to substituted carbene are both endothermic with the latter having the larger endothermicity. 

Several mechanisms have been currently proposed for isomerizing primary alkyne to vinylidene in presence of transition metal fragments [2, 3],... 

Figure 2. Proposed mechanisms for the alkyne to vinylidene isomerization coordinated to a transition metal fragment...

DFT calculations confirmed the similarities with the alkyne/vinylidene transformation but have revealed that additional parameters were essential to achieve the isomerization [8, 20-23]. The hydride ligand on the 14-electron fragment RuHC1L2 opens up a pathway for the transformation similar to that obtained for the acetylene to vinylidene isomerization. However, thermodynamics is not in favor of the carbene isomer for unsubstituted olefins and the tautomerization is observed only when a re electron donor group is present on the alkene. Finally the nature of the X ligand on the RuHXL2+q (X = Cl, q=0 X = CO, q=l) 14-electron complex alters the relative energy of the various intermediates and enables to stop the reaction on route to carbene. 

Alkynes react readily with a variety of transition metal complexes under thermal or photochemical conditions to form the corresponding 7t-complexes. With terminal alkynes the corresponding 7t-complexes can undergo thermal or chemically-induced isomerization to vinylidene complexes [128,130,132,133,547,556-569]. With mononuclear rj -alkyne complexes two possible mechanisms for the isomerization to carbene complexes have been considered, namely (a) oxidative insertion of the metal into the terminal C-Fl bond to yield a hydrido alkynyl eomplex, followed by 1,3-hydrogen shift from the metal to Cn [570,571], or (b) eoneerted formation of the M-C bond and 1,2-shift of H to Cp [572]. 

Macromolecules having identical constitutional repeating units can nevertheless differ as a result of isomerism. For example, linear, branched, and crosslinked polymers of the same monomer are considered as structural isomers. Another type of structural isomerism occurs in the chain polymerization of vinyl or vinylidene monomers. Here, there are two possible orientations of the monomers when they add to the growing chain end. Therefore, two possible arrangements of the constitutional repeating units may occur ... 

The reactions on Rh/Ir usually proceed via oxidative addition to give hydrido (alkynyl) complexes, which then undergo 1,3-H shifts to form the vinylidene complexes. In general, a unimolecular mechanism has been considered to be operative. Recent studies of RhCl(PPr 2R)2 (R = C=NCBu =CHNMe) complexes have shown a remarkable acceleration of the isomerization, with the =C=CHBu complex being formed within seconds [32]. Suitable cross-over experiments showed that a bimolecular mechanism, earlier suggested by some experimental and computational results [33], did not operate. 

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