Nickel complexes aromatic

Flowever, information concerning the characteristics of these systems under the conditions of a continuous process is still very limited. From a practical point of view, the concept of ionic liquid multiphasic catalysis can be applicable only if the resultant catalytic lifetimes and the elution losses of catalytic components into the organic or extractant layer containing products are within commercially acceptable ranges. To illustrate these points, two examples of applications mn on continuous pilot operation are described (i) biphasic dimerization of olefins catalyzed by nickel complexes in chloroaluminates, and (ii) biphasic alkylation of aromatic hydrocarbons with olefins and light olefin alkylation with isobutane, catalyzed by acidic chloroaluminates. 

The reaction between aryl halides and cuprous cyanide is called the Rosenmund-von Braun reactionP Reactivity is in the order I > Br > Cl > F, indicating that the SnAt mechanism does not apply.Other cyanides (e.g., KCN and NaCN), do not react with aryl halides, even activated ones. However, alkali cyanides do convert aryl halides to nitrilesin dipolar aprotic solvents in the presence of Pd(II) salts or copper or nickel complexes. A nickel complex also catalyzes the reaction between aryl triflates and KCN to give aryl nitriles. Aromatic ethers ArOR have been photochemically converted to ArCN. 

Low-valent nickel complexes of bpy are also efficient electrocatalysts in the reductive coupling reaction of aromatic halides.207 Detailed investigations are in agreement with a reaction mechanism involving the oxidative addition (Equation (40)) of the organic halide to a zero valent complex.208-210 Starting from [Nin(bpy)2(X)2]0 with excess bpy, or from [Nin(bpy)3]2 +, results in the [Ni°(bpy)2]° complex (Equations (37) and (38)). However, the reactive complex is the... 

Nickel halides and nickel complexes resulting from oxidative addition can also give rise to subsequent replacement and insertion reactions. Replacement reactions have been described mainly with arylnickel halide complexes (examples 23, 29, and 31, Table III). Carbanionic species replace halide ions and can undergo coupling or insertion reactions. An example of application of a carbanionic reaction to the synthesis of a natural product is the coupling step between an aromatic iodo-derivative and an active methylene group to form cephalotaxinone (example 23, Table III). 

Replacement reactions of aromatic halides or other halides with SCN, NCO, or N02 can be easily carried out by oxidation of nickel complexes with copper salts (examples 8-11, Table XI). 

P.Y.153 is a nickel complex which was introduced to the market in the late 1960s. It produces slightly dull reddish shades of yellow. Although not fast to acids, the pigment may safely be exposed to alkali. It is fast to mineral spirits and alcohols, but only moderately so to aromatic solvents, such as xylene, and to esters, such as ethyl acetate. 

Aromatics have also been utilised as ligands in nickel complexes recently reported to be highly active in the addition (or vinyl-type) polymerisation of... 

More attention has been devoted to aromatic and heteroaromatic substrates since first reported in 1983 [40]. The results are shown in Table 2 [25, 41-51]. All these reactions were run with nickel complexes associated with a phosphane or bpy ligand. Depending on the experimental conditions, the polymers were either precipitated during the electrolysis or deposited as films at the surface of the electrode. The method is also convenient to prepare copolymers from a mixture of two aryl dihalides. A mechanistic investigation on the nickel-bpy catalyzed polymerisation has been reported very recently [52]. 

Several transition metal ions form stable complexes with aliphatic 1,2-dithiols, which absorb in the near-lR. Known as dithiolenes, their nickel complexes in particular have been found to have valuable properties. The physical properties of dithiolenes can be readily tailored by variations on the substituents attached to the dithiols, see (4.13). Although they have low molar absorption coefQcients, when compared to cyanines etc., they do have one big advantage in that they show very little absorption in the visible region." Stracturally analogous dyes can be made from aromatic dithiols and oxothiols (4.14), and the much more bathochromic naphthalene derivatives (4.15), but they are much weaker absorbers. 

The cross-coupling route to allylsilanes is effective with either aromatic or aliphatic a-silylated Grignard reagents16, and palladium catalysts are more reactive and stereoselective than the corresponding nickel complexes. Unsubstituted or i+monosubstituted alkenyl bromides work well but the Z-substituted bromides give lower yields and an inferior enantiomeric excess. The enantiomeric excess increases quite markedly with decreasing temperature, and optimum results are obtained at 0 C or below. 

The electrochemical preparation of organozinc compounds obtained from the corresponding aromatic halides and with the use of a nickel complex as catalyst is only efficient in dimethylformamide as solvent. Moreover, in most cases and as described previously, the reaction requires the presence of excess 2,2 -bipyridine (five molar equivalents with respect to nickel) to achieve the transmetallation reaction leading to the organozinc compound and to avoid the formation of biaryl, Ar-Ar (equation 53). 

This process is an example of the ability of nickel complexes to catalyze substitution reactions of aromatic halides under very mild conditions. A further example of their catalytic activity is the carbonylation of aromatic halides at the atmospheric pressure of carbon monoxide (6). 

Therefore it seems reasonable to assume that cyanation of aryl halides involves two fundamental processes oxidative addition of the tris(triphenylphosphine)nickel complex on the aromatic halide (Reaction 2) and cyanation of the arylnickel(II) complex 1 (Reaction 8). A further proof of the validity of this scheme is that both Ni[P(C6H5)3]3 and arylnickel (II) complexes 1 have an equal catalytic activity, these latter being intermediates of the catalytic process. Recent studies (22) on the influence of substituents on the aromatic halide in the oxidative addition reaction with Ni[P(C6H5)3]3 have given the results shown in Figure 4. 

Thus, the historical development of the chemistry of metallocorrolates until 1980 includes complexes with Cu2+, Ni2+, Pd2+, Fe3+, Co3+, Rh+, Mo5+ and Cr5+. The palladium complex has been isolated as its pyridinium salt since the neutral species was too unstable to be isolated or spectroscopically characterized [19]. The nickel complex was non-aromatic, with one of the potentially tautomeric hydrogens displaced from nitrogen to carbon in such a way as to interrupt the chromophore. In contrast the electronic spectrum of the paramagnetic copper complex is similar to those of the fully conjugated lV(21)-methyl derivatives [11],... 

The trimerization of alkynes is a general and useful method for the preparation of aromatic compounds [152]. However, this method has serious limitations when three different alkynes are used, as numerous regioisomers may be formed. Taka-hashi and co-workers have reported the beginnings of a solution using zirconocy-clopentadienes prepared in situ from two different alkynes. Substituted arenes were obtained upon addition of a third alkyne to the organometallic complex in the presence of copper chloride [153] or a nickel complex [154], This approach is nevertheless limited by the fact that at least one of the alkynes must be symmetrical, and by... 

The tetrahedrizating influence of the heteroannelation is so high that it exceeds the m-planar effect, as observed (Sec. 2.2.5A [133,135,157]) in nickel complexes of aromatic azomethines with N2S2-ligand environment. 

Recently, ee s of 85-90% have been obtained for the asymmetric hydrocyanation of 6-methoxy-2-vinyhiaphthalene using nickel complexes of chiral bidentate phosphinites derived from glucose (abbreviated PP, equation 12). This reaction is of great interest to the pharmaceutical industry because the (S) enantiomer of the product nitrile is a useful precursor for the widely marketed antiinflammatory dmg naproxen (equation 13). The same reaction can be applied to a number of other vinyl aromatic compounds, including the precursor for the antiinflammatory drug ibuprofen (6) however, the ee is not as high. 

A study done with four optically pure dipeptides, L-Phe-L-Met, L-Met-L-Phe, L-Phe-L-Leu, and L-Leu-L-Phe, showed that the major species formed at physiological pH with nickel(II) is NiL. This is different from the complex with copper(II), in which the major product was CuH-iL. This difference is due to the fact that the first complexation with nickel(II) occurs at pH 4.5, while the copper(II) complexes begin to form between pH 2 and 3. It is this lesser ability of nickel(II) to deprotonate the peptide nitrogen that causes the difference. In the case of the NiH iL complex the formation of L-Phe-L-Leu is more difficult than L-Leu-L-Phe. This suggests that the nickel(II)-aromatic ring interaction influences the stability, as was seen with the copper(II) complexes. 

New syntheses of ( )-ar-turmerone (79) and ( )-nuciferal (80) have been reported (Schemes 10 and 11 ) whereas Meyers and Smith have used the (+)-oxazoline (81) to good effect in an asymmetrically induced synthesis of (+)-ar-turmerone (82) (Scheme 12). A neat one-pot synthesis of /3-curcumene (83) has been developed which involves only two steps (Scheme 13). In a synthesis of the aromatic analogue, (-)-a-curcumene (84), Kumada et al. have used an asymmetrically induced cross-coupling Grignard reaction in the presence of a nickel complex of (85) to produce (84) in 66% enantiomeric excess (Scheme 14). A Vilsmeier-Haack-Arnold formylation of (-f-)-limonene has been used as... 

It also appears that the metal can act as a nucleophile in reactions of certain nickel complexes with polyfluoro-aromatic compounds [145-147]. Surprisingly, with penta-fluoropyridine, insertion occurs at the 2-position [145], which is in direct contrast with reactions of most other nucleophiles with this system (see Chapter 9), where... 

In contrast, nucleophilic attack at an sp -carbon center with anionic 18-electron species like [Co(CO)4] and [Fe(CO)4] usually fails to activate aromatic or vinylic halides. Thus, catalytic carbonylations of aryl halides are initiated by oxidative addition of a C-X bond to an electronically unsaturated metal complex, normally a palladium [7], cobalt [8] or nickel complex [9]. The rate of this oxidative addition decreases along the sequence... 

The analogous bis(triethylphosphine)palladium complex also shows a singlet at 8 -71-0. (127) The nickel complex [318] of (+)-perfluoro(2,3-diphenylbutane-2,3-diol), like the free diol (both meso and dl isomers) shows five inequivalent aromatic fluorines, due to hindered rotation of the C6F ring. Since the inequivalence persists in the complexes, the hindrance cannot be due to hydrogen bonding. (174)... 

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