Ligands reaction with metal salt

The common metathesis reactions for the preparation of metallocenes, treating a metal salt MX2 with NaCp, are hampered in the case of ruthenium by the lack of suitable Ru salts. (Rul2 is commercially available, but is still not commonly used in the synthesis of rathenocene.) Thus, ruthenocene has been obtained from Ru(acac)3 and NaCp in very low yield and later from RuCb and NaCp in 50-60% yield. It has now become apparent that alkene polymers, in particular [Ru(nbd)Cl2]x, but also [Ru(cod)Cl2]x and hydrazine derivatives (Section 3.1), can serve as Ru precursors. Equally successful in many cases is reductive complexation of cyclopentadiene in ethanol in the presence of Zn (Section 3.2), which furnishes the metallocene in about 80% yield. Decamethylruthenocene (82) was first obtained by the Zn reduction route in 20% yield, but can now be prepared conveniently from halide complexes [Cp RuCl2]2 or [Cp RuCl]4, a common method for the preparation of symmetrical and unsymmetrical sandwich compounds of ruthenium featuring one alkyl-substituted ligand. 

Transition metal salts trap carbon-centered radicals by electron transfer or by ligand transfer. These reagents often show high specificity for reaction with specific radicals and the rates of trapping may be correlated with the nucleophilicity of the radical (Table 5.6). For example, PS radicals are much more reactive towards ferric chloride than acrylic propagating species."07... 

In 2007, Fernandez et al. demonstrated that transition-metal complexes with heterobidentate S/C ligands based on imidazopyridin-3-ylidene and thioether functionalities could be readily prepared from the corresponding azolium salts by reaction with Ag20 and transmetalation of the resulting silver carbenes with appropriate metal sources. The cationic Pd(allyl)(carbene-S) complexes have proven to be active catalysts in the test reaction, reaching enantioselectivities of... 

Palladium-catalyzed carbon-carbon cross-coupling reactions are among the best studied reactions in recent decades since their discovery [102, 127-130], These processes involve molecular Pd complexes, and also palladium salts and ligand-free approaches, where palladium(O) species act as catalytically active species [131-135]. For example, the Heck reaction with aryl iodides or bromides is promoted by a plethora of Pd(II) and Pd(0) sources [128, 130], At least in the case of ligand-free palladium sources, the involvement of soluble Pd NPs as a reservoir for catalytically active species seems very plausible [136-138], Noteworthy, it is generally accepted that the true catalyst in the reactions catalyzed by Pd(0) NPs is probably molecular zerovalent species detached from the NP surface that enter the main catalytic cycle and subsequently agglomerate as N Ps or even as bulk metal. 

In related work a library of 1,458 peptide ligands and various metal salts was tested in hydrolysis reactions of (p-nitrophenyl)phosphates.35 An active substructure composed of polymer-bound histidine in combination with Eu3+ was identified by further dissecting the original hit structure. It needs to be pointed out that catalytically active polymer beads can also be tested for catalytic activity using IR-thermography. In a seminal paper this was demonstrated using 7,000 encoded polymer beads prepared by split-and-pool methods, specifically in the metal-free acylation of alcohols.36... 

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