Ligand tertiary alkyl phosphines

In the sixties it was recognised that ligand substitution on the cobalt carbonyl complex might influence the performance of the catalyst. Tertiary alkyl phosphines have a profound influence ... 

The 1,4-disilylation of a,/3-unsaturated ketones has been reported by Ito and co-workers.172 Unsymmetrically substituted disilanes, PhCl2SiSiMe3 and Cl3SiSiMe3, undergo reaction in the presence of catalytic amounts of palladium complexes with tertiary alkyl phosphine or bidentate phosphine ligands to yield /3-silyl ketones [Eq. (64)]. 

Compared with the analogous hydrogenation of aldehydes, the reaction requires somewhat more drastic conditions (about 200°C and 6 hrs), but the temperature is still within the stability range of the cobalt carbonyl phosphine complexes containing tertiary alkyl phosphines as ligands. If aryl phosphines are used, a more or less pronounced decomposition of the carbonyl complexes can be observed (as indicated by the IR... 

In the sixties it was recognized that ligand substitution on the cobalt carbonyl might influence the performance of the catalyst. It has been found that aryl phosphines or phosphites have little influence in fact they may not even coordinate to cobalt under such high CO pressures. Tertiary alkyl phosphines, however, have a profound influence [5] the reaction is much slower, the selectivity to linear products increases, the carbonyl complex formed, HCoL(CO)3, is much more stable, and the catalyst acquires activity for hydrogenation. This process has been commercialized by Shell. As a result of the higher stability of the cobalt complex, the Shell process can be operated at lower pressures and higher temperatures (50-100 bar vs 200-300 bar for HCo(CO)4, 170°C vs 140°C). 

To this end, monodentate phosphine or bidentate PX (X=P, N, O) ligands have usually been employed as ancillary ligands for transition-metal-catalyzed reactions, with bulky tertiary alkyl phosphines proving particularly effective. Significant advances have been achieved in the use of less active aryl chlorides (bond strength C-Cl>C-Br>C-I) as chemical feedstock [5], with a number of processes mediated by palladium-bulky phosphine systems. This success is often explained by the effect of bulk and electron richness at the metal center along the catalytic cycle depicted in Fig. 1 [6]. 

The ratio of the two Zr(IV) products that one observes depends on the nature of RX primary alkyl halides highly favor the formation of the Zr alkyl complex, tertiary alkyl and acyl halides almost exclusively form the Zr dihalide complex, while mixtures of the two organometallic complexes are observed for secondary halides. The coordinated phosphine ligands invariably are quaternized to phosphonium salts, but this conversion is slower than the rates of oxidation of Zr. 

The most important of the tertiary phosphine complexes of platinum(IV) are Pt(QR3)2X4, generally prepared by halogen oxidation [174] of cis- or trans-Pt(QR3)2X2 (Q = P, As, R = alkyl Q = Sb, R = Me), since direct reaction of the platinum(IV) halides with the ligands leads to reduction. Once made, the platinum(IV) compounds are stable to reduction ... 

Palladium and platinum form a wide range of very stable alkyls and aryls in the (+2) state (section 3.8.4) generally with supporting ligands like tertiary phosphines [85, 189],... 

Complexes of the type [AuRL] may contain a great variety of organic ligands such as alkyl, aryl, vinyl, or alkynyl, whereas the neutral donor ligand L is most commonly a tertiary phosphine. Also many polynuclear complexes are known which have the C-Au-L moiety with bridging polyfunctional ligands. Alkyl- or aryl-gold(I) complexes are usually synthesized... 

My question to Dr. J. Kochi is whether it is possible to correlate the steric factor in his equations describing the oxidation of alkylmetal compounds to some measure of the bulkiness of the alkyl groups such as cone angles similar to ones suggested by Dr. C.A. Tolman for tertiary phosphine ligands. 

With very few exceptions, alkali metal complexes of phosphinomethanide ligands are synthesized by the deprotonation of a tertiary phosphine bearing an -CHR2 group with an alkali metal alkyl such as BunLi ... 

They tried Ni catalysts with chelating amine and phosphine ligands in the reaction of phenylzinc bromide with A-benzoyloxymorpholine 2a and observed that in the presence of NiCl2(PPh3)2, n-alkyl, aryl and functionalized arylzinc chlorides can be aminated with A,A-disubstituted O-benzoylhydroxylamines in good yields (Schemes 20 and 21). Attempted amination of secondary and tertiary alkylzinc chlorides failed to yield the expected product. 

Low oxidation states are generally stabilized by ligands which have both a donor (lone pairs) and n acceptor (either empty d orbitals or empty antibonding Jt orbitals) capability. Examples of common ligands with these characteristics are carbon monoxide, cyanide ion, alkyl and aryl isocyanides, tertiary phosphines and arsines, and alkyl or aryl phosphites. 

When K[PtX(acac)2] (X = Cl, Br) is treated with a strong proton add the uncoordinated 0,0 site is protonated and complex (170) is formed.1606,1607 If the alkyl groups on the 0,0 -bonded acac ligand are non-equivalent, exchange can be observed. Although the mechanism has not been definitively proven, a dissociative mechanism is favored.160 This proposal correlates with the observations that the 0,0 -bonded chelate complex Pt(acac)2 will react with tertiary phosphines and nitrogen bases with substitution of one of the oxygen-bonded chelate arms.1609,1610 A variety of products are formed as outlined in Scheme 17. 

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