Metal dehalogenation

V. Carbon Supports for Zero-Valent Metal Dehalogenation... 

The first section is mainly concerned with some of the emerging technologies for the production of novel activated carbons that may help to fulfill the increasing demands on performance as regulations on environmental pollution become more stringent. The next two sections deal with applications of conventional and new activated carbons in gas and liquid phase applications. The penultimate section considers the uses of carbons supports for zero-valent metal dehalogenation. The... 

V. CARBON SUPPORTS FOR ZERO-VALENT METAL DEHALOGENATION... 

Dehalogenation of monochlorotoluenes can be readily effected with hydrogen and noble metal catalysts (34). Conversion of -chlorotoluene to Ncyanotoluene is accompHshed by reaction with tetraethyl ammonium cyanide and zero-valent Group (VIII) metal complexes, such as those of nickel or palladium (35). The reaction proceeds by initial oxidative addition of the aryl haHde to the zerovalent metal complex, followed by attack of cyanide ion on the metal and reductive elimination of the aryl cyanide. Methylstyrene is prepared from -chlorotoluene by a vinylation reaction using ethylene as the reagent and a catalyst derived from zinc, a triarylphosphine, and a nickel salt (36). 

In the presence of a precious metal catalyst, aryl halides can undergo dehalo-dimerization to give biaryl products, with varying degrees of selectivity. The major byproduct of this reaction is usually the dehalogenated aryl compound. This type of chemistry is currently one of the very few viable means for the large scale preparation of biaryl compounds. 

Tetrahalobenzynes, however, react with a variety of aromatic compounds to afford tetrahalobenzobarrelene derivatives in good yields, frequently in the range of 55 to 75%. The dehalogenation of a variety of alkenyl chlorides with alkali metals in tetrahydrofu-ran containing tert-butyl alcohol suggested this approach to the dechlorination of tetrachlorobenzobarrelenes. 

Totten LA, U Jans, AL Roberts (2001) Alkyl bromides as mechanistic probes of reductive dehalogenation reactions of vicinal stereoisomers with zerovalent metals. Environ Sci Technol 35 2268-2274. 

Both Ni and Pd reactions are proposed to proceed via the general catalytic pathway shown in Scheme 8.1. Following the oxidative addition of a carbon-halogen bond to a coordinatively unsaturated zero valent metal centre (invariably formed in situ), displacement of the halide ligand by alkoxide and subsequent P-hydride elimination affords a Ni(II)/Pd(ll) aryl-hydride complex, which reductively eliminates the dehalogenated product and regenerates M(0)(NHC). ... 

Scheme 5.11. Reductive Dehalogenation and Deoxygenation by Dissolving Metals... 

The Reformatsky reaction is a classical reaction in which metallic zinc, an a-haloester, and a carbonyl compound react to give a (i-hydroxyester.162 The zinc and a-haloester react to form an organozinc reagent. Because the carboxylate group can stabilize the carbanionic center, the product is essentially the zinc enolate of the dehalogenated ester.163 The enolate effects nucleophilic attack on the carbonyl group. 

Abstract Recent advances in the metal-catalyzed one-electron reduction reactions are described in this chapter. One-electron reduction induced by redox of early transition metals including titanium, vanadium, and lanthanide metals provides a variety of synthetic methods for carbon-carbon bond formation via radical species, as observed in the pinacol coupling, dehalogenation, and related radical-like reactions. The reversible catalytic cycle is achieved by a multi-component catalytic system in combination with a co-reductant and additives, which serve for the recycling, activation, and liberation of the real catalyst and the facilitation of the reaction steps. In the catalytic reductive transformations, the high stereoselectivity is attained by the design of the multi-component catalytic system. This article focuses mostly on the pinacol coupling reaction. 

H from C0, the commonest probably being 1,2-dehalogenations and, in particular, 1,2-debromination. This can be induced by a number of different species including iodide ion, I , metals such as zinc, and some metal ions, e.g. Fe2. The reaction with I in acetone is found to follow the rate law (after allowance has been made for the I complexed by the I2 produced in the reaction),... 

Br and Cl are much less effective at inducing 1,2-dehalogenation than I , but metals—particularly Zn—have long been used. Reaction takes place heterogeneously at the surface of the metal, the solvent... 

Table 1.4 Examples of functionalization and defunctionalization with metal NPs in ILs carbonylation, hydroformylation, borylation, hydrosilylation, bond cleavage, hydrogenolysis, aminolysis, and dehalogenation. 

Reductive dehalogenation cannot be completely controlled, and mostly complicated mixtures were formed which are difficult to separate. Salt elimination opens the possibility of a reaction aimed at polysilane formation. Some examples are shown in Fig. 2. The key compounds are the alkali metal cyclosilanes, which we have isolated via the mercury compounds by the action of sodium/potassium alloy and used for the first time [13]. 

The present reaction may be reasonably explained by the smooth oxidative addition of aryl halides to metallic nickel to give aryl nickel halides, followed by disproportionation to bisarylnickels, which upon reductive elimination afford the dehalogenative coupled products. Providing strong support for this mechanism, the intermediates, arylnickel halide and bisarylnickel (Ar=C F ), were isolated as the phosphine complexes. 

On the other hand, benzylic polyhalides were converted to the corresponding olefins via vicinal dihalide intermediates. Metallic nickel was also shown to be useful for the dehalogenation of vicinal dihalides(36,43). 

Alkyl, allyl, and aryl bromides are dehalogenated mainly with the formation of R R dimers in the presence of polypyridyl complexes of the metals of Group VIII. It has been demonstrated that the complexes [Co(bpy)3] + 203-204 [Ni(bpy)3]2+,205 and [Ni(phen)3]2+206 catalyze the reductive dimerization of allyl and alkyl bromides in organic 203 205 206 and aqueous micellar 204 solution. 

Hydrodehalogenation - that is, hydrogenolysis of the carbon-halogen bond -involves the displacement of a halogen bound to carbon by a hydrogen atom. This chapter is devoted to dehalogenations mediated by transition-metal complexes (Eq. (1)) ... 

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