Methanol iridium complexes

OC, Carbon monoxide (Continued) cobalt, iron, osmium, and ruthenium complexes, 21 58-65 iron complex, 21 66, 68 manganese complexes, 23 34 molybdenum complexes, 23 4-9 niobium complexes, 23 34 palladium complex, 21 49 rhodium complexes, 23 124 ruthenium complex, 21 30 OCH4, Methanol, iridium complexes, 23 127 rhodium complexes, 23 127, 129 OCjHs, Acetone, compd. with carbonyltri-p.-chloro-chlorotctrakis-(triphenylphosphine)diruthcnium (1 2), 21 30... 

The five-coordinate iridium complexes may be protonated by glacial acetic acid, yielding [Ir(PPh3)2(CNR)3H] + the structure of this complex is determined by PMR measurements to be (XXIX). However, in the analogous HCl reaction [Ir(PPh3)2(CNR)2Cl2] is obtained. The reaction of [Ir(PPh3)2(CNR)3] with methanol also proved quite out of the ordinary. 

More recently, the same type of hgand was used to form chiral iridium complexes, which were used as catalysts in the hydrogenation of ketones. The inclusion of hydrophihc substituents in the aromatic rings of the diphenylethylenediamine (Fig. 23) allowed the use of the corresponding complexes in water or water/alcohol solutions [72]. This method was optimized in order to recover and reuse the aqueous solution of the catalyst after product extraction with pentane. The combination of chiral 1,2-bis(p-methoxyphenyl)-N,M -dimethylethylenediamine and triethyleneglycol monomethyl ether in methanol/water was shown to be the best method, with up to six runs with total acetophenone conversion and 65-68% ee. Only in the seventh run did the yield and the enantioselectivity decrease slightly. 

Mechanistic Pathways in the Catalytic Carbonylation of Methanol by Rhodium and Iridium Complexes... 

The commercialisation of an iridium-based process is the most significant new development in methanol carbonylation catalysis in recent years. Originally discovered by Monsanto, iridium catalysts were considered uncompetitive relative to rhodium on the basis of lower activity, as often found for third row transition metals. The key breakthrough for achieving high catalytic rates for an iridium catalyst was the identification of effective promoters. Recent mechanistic studies have provided detailed insight into how the promoters influence the subtle balance between neutral and anionic iridium complexes in the catalytic cycle, thereby enhancing catalytic turnover. 

As mentioned above, iridium complexes are also active in the formation of amines via the hydrosilylation/protodesUylation of imines. In the presence of 2 equiv. of HSiEts, the cationic complex [lr bis(pyrazol-l-yl)methane (CO)2][BPh4] (C4) catalyzes the reduction of various imines, including N-alkyl and N-aryl imines and both aldimines and ketimmes. Excellent conversions directly to the amine products were achieved rapidly at room temperature in a methanol solution (Scheme 14.7) [53]. 

This product was characterized by its NMR spectrum and also by reaction with HC1 followed by BF3/methanol to yield methylcyanoacetate ester. The reaction occurs readily, and in the absence of detectable amounts of the oxidative addition product of acetonitrile with the iridium complex, [Hlr-(depe)2CH2CN]+. In contrast, neither Rh(depe)2Cl nor Rh(dmpe)2Cl (dmpe = Me2PCH2CH2PMe2) react with C02 in acetonitrile, though Rh(dmpe)2Cl does react with C02 in nitromethane to form the analogous nitro-acetate hydride complex, (57). 

Mechanistic Pathways for Ligand Substitution Processes in Metal Carbonyls, 21, 113 Mechanistic Pathways in the Catalytic Carbonylation of Methanol by Rhodium and Iridium Complexes, 17, 255... 

Mel, in Rh-catalyzed methanol carbonylation, 7, 256 to monocarbonyl iridium complexes, 7, 284 in mononuclear ruthenium and osmium alkynyl formations,... 

Although the carbonylation of methanol using an iodide-promoted iridium complex was first reported by Monsanto researchers Roth and Pauhk in 1968, and its mechanism studied by Forster and others, it was the rhodium system that was initially developed for commercialization. A more complex mechanism for iridium, involving both anionic and neutral intermediates was discovered, but it would take over twenty years to coimnercialize an iridium-based system for methanol carbonylation (Scheme 21). In the Cativa process, the iridium complex is promoted by two distinct... 

Unlike the hydrogenation catalysts, most iridium catalysts studied for hydroformylation chemistry are not particularly active and are usually much less active than their rhodium counterparts see Carbonylation Processes by Homogeneous Catalysis). However, this lower activity was useful in utihzing iridium complexes to study separate steps in the hydroformylation mechanism. Using iridium complexes, several steps important in the hydroformylation cycle such as alkyl migration to carbon monoxide were studied. Another carbonylation reaction in which iridum catalysis appears to be conunercially viable is in the carbonylation of methanol. ... 

The reaction of divalent metals, such as copper, nickel, and so on, with dioxetanes in methanol leads to clean catalytic decomposition into carbonyl fragments/ The reaction rates increase with increasing Lewis acidity of the divalent metal and indicate, therefore, typical electrophilic cleavage of the dioxetane. On the other hand, univalent rhodium and iridium complexes catalyze the decomposition of dioxetanes into carbonyl fragments via oxidative addition. 

Methanol, platinum complex, 26 135 tungsten complex, 26 45 Methyl, iridium complex, 26 118 manganese complex, 26 156 osmium complex, 27 206 rhenium complexes, 26 107 Methyl acetate, iron complex, 27 184 osmium complex, 27 204 Methyl benzoate, chromium complex, 26 32 Methylene, osmium complex, 27 206 Molybdate(l -), (acetato)pentacarbonyl-, M.-nitrido-bis(triphenylphosphorus) (I-h), 27 297... 

Ligand (94) or its C-methyl derivative [tris(pyrazol-l-yl)ethane] (represented by L) affords iridium complexes which react with carbon monoxide and methanol to yield alkoxycarbonyl derivatives [(L)IrH(C02Me)(C0)] (Equation (1)) <89JOM(366)245>. This constitutes an interesting example of alcohol activation. 

FIGURE 2 Comparison of methanol carbonylation rates as a function of water concentration for rhodium-complex, iridium-complex, and iridium/ruthenium-complex catalysts (190 °C, 28 bar, 30% MeOAc (w/w), 8.4% Mel (w/w), 1950 ppm Ir or equimolar Rh). Adapted with permission from Figure 1 in reference [125], copyright 2004, American Chemical Society. 

The original mechanistic investigations of iridium/iodide-catalyzed methanol carbonylation were conducted by Forster [6,7,19,115,132-135]. Some other studies were also reported in the late 1970s [136-138]. Since the 1990s, interest in the fundamental aspects of the reaction mechanism has been rekindled by the industrial significance of iridium-complex catalysts. 

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