Nitriles transition metal complexes

W02005/080456 Al, Lanxess Inc. Process for the preparation of low molecular weight hydrogenated nitrile rubber EP2028194 Al, Lanxess Deutschland GmbH Metathesis of nitrile rubbers in the presence of transition metal complex catalysts Press release Lanxess - New York Conference, New York City, USA, Monday August 28, 2006, Address by Dr. Ulrich Koemm LANXESS Concepts in Rubber ... 

Many of these systems employ charged polymers or polyelectrolytes that confer on them particular properties due to the existence of electrical charges in the polymer structure. Oyama and Anson [14,15] introduced polyelectrolytes at electrode surfaces by using poly(vinylpiridine), PVP, and poly-(acrylonitrile) to coordinate metal complexes via the pyridines or nitrile groups pending from the polymer backbone. Thomas Meyer s group at North Carolina [16, 17[ also employed poly(vinylpyridine) to coordinate Ru, Os, Re and other transition-metal complexes by generating an open coordination site on the precursor-metal complex. 

In certain early transition metal complexes and in metal clusters, organic nitriles can insert into metal-hydrogen or metal-carbon bonds (equations 92 and 93). Similarly, nucleophilic attack at coordinated nitrile can yield methyleneamido complexes (equation 94). 

These two reactions are limited by the fact that a nitro group must be present on the benzene ring to facilitate the elimination of the chlorine atom. However, this restriction may be removed by the use of a transition-metal complex—most often, a nickel(O) catalyst. The starting compounds are 2-iodobenzoic acid derivatives 91 (amides, nitriles, and esters) and MA-disubstituted thioureas. In this case, electron-acceptor groups in the benzene ring are not obligatory the reaction is general and allows one... 

The first two transition-metal complexes of 2-naphthalyne78 have been prepared79 to be used as intermediates in the synthesis of polysubstituted naphthalenes. The naphthalyne intermediate 206, prepared from 205 [Eq. (31)], couples with a wide array of nitriles to give zirconocycles (207) that have been converted into substituted naphthalenes (208) by reaction with HC1 and iodonaphthalenes (209) by reaction with I2 followed by HC1. The... 

Although the C-Zn bond is rather unreactive toward electrophiles such as aldehydes, ketones, esters, and nitriles, it undergoes transmetalations with many transition metal complexes to furnish new organometallics capable of reacting with a variety of electrophilic substrates (see Section 7.10). 

Treatment of alkylating agents with metal cyanides should in principle be the method of choice for preparing isocyanides (equation 25). But as the cyanide ion again represents an ambident nucleophile, the well-known problems already discussed will arise (Section 1.8.2.1.i). It remains to be stated that simple alkylation of alkali metal cyanides with halogen compounds or dialkyl sulfates is not useful for the preparation of isonitriles. The formation of nitriles always prevails and isocyanides are at best obtained in yields of up to 25%. " The prospects are much tetter in the alkylation of heavy metal cyanides, if the reaction is done under conditions which initially give rise to isocyanide-transition metal complexes (equation 26). These will then be transformed into isonitriles by treatment with KCN. Under optimized conditions this technique yielded 55% of ethyl isocyanide. ... 

So it became very surprising to see that the middle transition metal complexes 21-24 with Re(l) centers bearing chelate cw-diphosphine ligands were efficient catalysts in homogeneous hydrogenations of nitriles [75]. For instance, the hydrogenation of benzonitrile furnished the products dibenzylimine (PI), dibenzylamine (P2), and tribenzylamine (P3) with P2 as the major product (Scheme 27). Formation of benzylimine or benzylamine was not observed. Dibenzylimine was formed by the hydrogenation of dibenzylimine, while the... 

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