Nickel with alkyl halides

Although, as has already been mentioned, under matrix conditions between 10 and 77 K, there is no oxidative addition of a chloroolefin to nickel or palladium atoms (141), it is evident that this is simply a function of reaction and processing conditions, as it has been shown (68) that oxidative addition to C-C or C-H bonds by nickel atoms leads to pseudocomplexes having Ni C H ratios of 2-5 1 2. Klabunde and co-workers investigated the oxidative addition-reactions of palladium atoms with alkyl halides (73) and benzyl chlorides (74). 

Experiments have been carried out to mimic the reactions of model systems for coenzyme F430 that is involved in the terminal step in the biosynthesis of methane, and that is able to dechlorinate CCI4 successively to CHCI3 and CH2CI2 (Krone et al. 1989). Nickel(I) isobacteriochlorin anion was generated electrolytically and used to examine the reactions with alkyl halides in dimethylformamide (Helvenston and Castro 1992). The three classes of reaction were the same as those observed with Fe(II) deuteroporphyrin IX that have already been noted. 

Development of new methodologies for formation of carbon-carbon bonds has been one of the major tasks in organic chemistry. Obviously, organometallic compounds, particularly zinc derivatives, have found great use in such reactions. During the past several years, there have been several significant reports of nickel- and palladium-catalyzed reactions of dialkylzincs and alkylzinc halides with alkyl halides of diverse structure. A detailed account of most of these studies can be found in a recent review by Knochel et al,246... 

Steric constraints dictate that reactions of organohalides catalysed by square planar nickel complexes cannot involve a cw-dialkyl or diaryl Ni(iii) intermediate. The mechanistic aspects of these reactions have been studied using a macrocyclic tetraaza-ligand [209] while quantitative studies on primary alkyl halides used Ni(n)(salen) as catalyst source [210]. One-electron reduction affords Ni(l)(salen) which is involved in the catalytic cycle. Nickel(l) interacts with alkyl halides by an outer sphere single electron transfer process to give alkyl radicals and Ni(ii). The radicals take part in bimolecular reactions of dimerization and disproportionation, react with added species or react with Ni(t) to form the alkylnickel(n)(salen). Alkanes are also fonned by protolysis of the alkylNi(ii). 

Kinetics and Mechanism of Reactions of Tetrakis (/ mercaptoethylamine)-trinickel(II) Chloride, Ni3 (NH2CH2CH2S )4C12, with Alkyl Halides. Jicha has shown that tekrakis(/ -mercaptoethylamine) trinickel (II) chloride and bis (/3-mercaptoethylamine) nickel (II) react with alkyl halides to yield the same product. Tetrakis ( -mercaptoethylamine) trinickel (II) chloride was chosen as a reactant in kinetic experiments because of its solubility and intense red color in contrast to the insoluble, green bis (/ -mercaptoethylamine) nickel (II) which would have been the better of the two for chemical simplicity. 

Thiocarbonyl derivatives of 1,3-dioxolanes and 1,3-oxathiolanes are readily isomerized to the 2-carbonyl compounds as shown in Scheme 20. Alkylation of the sulfur atom with alkyl halides usually leads to ring-opened products (Scheme 21) (69JOC3011). Most of the other chemistry of the sulfur derivatives has focused on desulfurization and subsequent generation of alkenes. The reaction is shown in equation (20) and proceeds with cis elimination via carbene intermediate (see Section 4.30.2.2.5) and is usually carried out with a phosphine (73JA7161) or a zero-valent nickel complex (73TL2667). 

Palladium-catalysed cross-coupling of organomagnesium compounds with alkyl halides is rarely useful (e.g. see [36]), but a satisfactory nickel-catalysed coupling with a neopentyl halide has been reported recently [37] ... 

Selenides are also nucleophilic and produce isolable selenonium salts (9) when treated with alkyl halides. They are easily oxidized to selenoxides (10) and further to selenones (11) under more forcing conditions (see Section 4). Reduction of selenides to the corresponding hydrocarbons is most conveniently achieved with nickel boride,or with tri-n-butyl- or triphenyltin hydride under radical conditions. " Other reagents for reductive deselenization include Raney nickel, lithium triethylborohydride, and lithium in ethylamine (Scheme 4). Benzylic selenides undergo radical extrusion reactions under thermal or photolytic conditions to produce... 

Monohalogenothiazoles, 567 nucleophilic substitution reactions, 322 with amines. 567 with ArSH, 567 with benzamide, 567 with OH", 567 with OR", 567 relative reactivities, 568 with SR", 567 with sulfinic acid salts, 567 with sulfonamide, 567 reactions, with alkyl halides, 574 with n-butyllithium, 573 with Gtignard reagents, 573 reeduction of, with nickel, 573 with zinc, 573... 

Apart from their behaviour as ligands in metal catalyst systems, studies of the reactivity of phosphites towards a wide variety of other substrates have attracted attention. New aspects and applications of the classical Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction and its variants continue to appear. Evidence of the thermal disproportionation of methyltriaryloxyphosphonium halides formed in the reactions of triarylphosphites with alkyl halides, together with the formation of P-O-P intermediates, has been reported. The Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction has been used in the synthesis of phosphonate-based styrene-divinylbenzene resins and polyphosphonated chelation therapy ligands.Treatment of electron-rich benzylic alcohols dissolved in triethylphosphite with one equivalent of iodine affords a low-temperature one-pot route to the related benzylic phosphonates, compounds which are otherwise difficult to prepare. Upper-rim chloromethylated thiacalix[4]arenes have also been shown to undergo phosphonation on treatment with a phosphite ester in chloroform at room temperature. The nickel(II)-catalysed reaction of aryl halides with phosphite esters in high boiling solvents, e.g., diphenyl ether, (the Tavs reaction), has also... 

In contrast to the behavior of the foregoing nickel(I) complexes as catalysts, the catalytic reactions of alkyl halides with cobalt(I) species such as vitamin Bi2s, cobaloximes(I), and cobalt(I) salen exhibit a significant difference. Cobalt(I) species, acting as potent nucleophiles in Sn2 reactions with alkyl halides, give stable alkylcobalt(III) intermediates. Lexa and coworkers [318] have discussed this mechanistic scheme for the catalytic reduction of l-bromobutane by the electrogenerated cobalt(I) tetraphenylpor-phin complex, where TPP denotes the ligand. Reversible one-electron reduction of the parent cobalt(II) species... 

The reagent reacts with alkyl halides, dialkyl sulfates and tosylates" to form the thiocyano derivatives, which can be desulfurized with Raney nickel." Potassium... 

The only example of an oxidative ring opening of the dihydrothiazine ring involves the ozonolysis of the derivative 172 to give compound 193. The 1—2 bond of dihydrothiazinones can be reductively cleaved in the presence of sodium in liquid ammonia. Thus compound 80a was converted into the salt 119 (Section V,B,4,a) although a stable isolable material, 119 readily underwent S-alkylation when treated with alkyl halides. Although Raney nickel is expected to effect the reductive desulfurization of dihydrothiazines, only one example of this reaction has been reported thus the compound 80b afforded N-acetylalanine ethyl ester. The 3—4 bond of dihydrothiazinones can be reductively cleaved under certain circum-... 

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