Carbonylation organic halides

Finally, it should be mentioned that there is one important commercial application of the organic halide carbonylation. This is in the rhodium and methyl iodide-catalyzed conversion of methanol and carbon monoxide into acetic acid (25). The mechanism of the reaction appears to involve the oxidative addition of methyl iodide to the rhodium(I) catalyst followed by CO insertion and hydrolysis ... 

Phase-Transfer- and Metal-Complexes-Catalyzed Carbonylation of Organic Halides. Carbonylation of organic halides catalyzed by transition metals is a general and efficient method of manufacturing of carboxylic acids. 

The aryl halides can be converted into the corresponding carboxylic acid by carbonylation in presence of water. The use of PTC is a well established technique for carbonylation of organic halides.Carbonylation of organic halides using various types of phase transfer techniques has been extensively reviewed. ... 

Acyl halides are intermediates of the carbonylations of alkenes and organic-halides. Decarbonylation of acyl halides as a reversible process of the carbo-nylation is possible with Pd catalyst. The decarbonylation of aliphatic acid chlorides proceeds with Pd(0) catalyst, such as Pd on carbon or PdC, at around 200 °C[109,753]. The product is a mixture of isomeric internal alkenes. For example, when decanoyl chloride is heated with PdCF at 200 C in a distillation flask, rapid evolution of CO and HCl stops after I h, during which time a mixture of nonene isomers was distilled off in a high yield. The decarbonylation of phenylpropionyl chloride (883) affords styrene (53%). In addition, l,5-diphenyl-l-penten-3-one (884) is obtained as a byproduct (10%). formed by the insertion of styrene into the acyl chloride. Formation of the latter supports the formation of acylpalladium species as an intermediate of the decarbonylation. Decarbonylation of the benzoyl chloride 885 can be carried out in good yields at 360 with Pd on carbon as a catalyst, yielding the aryl chloride 886[754]. 

Coupling of organic halides with carbonyl compounds promoted by Sml2 in synthesis of heterocycles 99CRV745. 

The photoinitiation of vinyl polymerization by organic compounds (carbonyl, azo, peroxide, disulphide compounds, etc.) or inorganic salts (e.g., metal halides and their ion pairs, etc.) will not be discussed here, since these type of photoinitiators are beyond the scope of the present chapter. 

It has generally been concluded that the photoinitiation of polymerization by the transition metal carbonyls/ halide system may occur by three routes (1) electron transfer to an organic halide with rupture of C—Cl bond, (2) electron transfer to a strong-attracting monomer such as C2F4, probably with scission of-bond, and (3) halogen atom transfer from monomer molecule or solvent to a photoexcited metal carbonyl species. Of these, (1) is the most frequently encountered. 

CARBONYLATION OF ORGANIC HALIDES 6.6.1 Carbonylation of Alkyl Halides... 

Grignard reagents are powerful nucleophiles => it is not possible to prepare a Grignard reagent from any organic halide that contains a carbonyl, epoxy, nitro, or cyano group. 

The electroreductive carbonylation and carboxylation of organic halides catalyzed by different metal complexes is summarized in Section 9.10.5. Electrogenerated Ni° complexes containing bpy193-196 or pentamethyldiethylenetriamine196-199 ligands are effective catalysts for the electrosynthesis of... 

The complex [Ni(bpy)2]2+ catalyzes the electroreductive coupling of organic halides and carbon monoxide into ketones under a CO atmosphere,226 or in the presence of a metal carbonyl,227 especially iron pentacarbonyl. Unsymmetrical ketones have been obtained from mixtures of two different organic halides.228 CO is very reactive towards reduced Ni° species to form the stable [Ni°(bpy)(CO)2]° complex, which probably evolves to a transient arylnickel [Nin(bpy)(R)(CO)X]° complex in the presence of both ArX and [Ni°(bpy)]° species.229,230... 

Carbonylation is an exceedingly broad subject, but the main reaction patterns can be easily rationalized by recalling the classification used earlier for coupling reactions involving (a) metallacycles (b) hydride-promoted reactions and (c) oxidative addition of organic halides to zero-valent nickel. In fact, one or other of these steps is necessary to form a species able to undergo carbonylation. 

The utility of SCFs is not limited to organotransi-tion metal chemistry. scC02 is a promising medium for free-radical carbonylation of organic halides to ketones or aldehydes. As shown in Figure 15A, the... 

Silver(I)-ion- assisted Me2SO oxidations of organic halides have been observed for primary and secondary bromides and iodides (174). The reactions occur under ambient conditions yielding the corresponding carbonyl, plus traces of alcohol. The fate of the silver ion is unreported. 

Recent contributions from Vogel s group have shown that, under CO atmosphere and in the presence of Pd2(dba)3 and Ph3As, 1-stannyl glycals can be carbonylated and coupled to organic halides (Scheme 6a),38 or vinyl triflates (Scheme 6b),39 in carbonylative Stifle cross-coupling processes.40 Also of interest is the palladium catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of... 

Catalytic processes based on the use of electrogenerated nickel(O) bipyridine complexes have been a prominent theme in the laboratories of Nedelec, Perichon, and Troupel some of the more recent work has involved the following (1) cross-coupling of aryl halides with ethyl chloroacetate [143], with activated olefins [144], and with activated alkyl halides [145], (2) coupling of organic halides with carbon monoxide to form ketones [146], (3) coupling of a-chloroketones with aryl halides to give O -arylated ketones [147], and (4) formation of ketones via reduction of a mixture of a benzyl or alkyl halide with a metal carbonyl [148]. 

Carbon monoxide and low valent transition metals are known to give various quite well described complexes. However, due to the strong coordination to CO, these metal carbonyl compounds are not very reactive towards carbon-halogen bonds. Thus the carbonylation of organic halides remains a difficult reaction since the presence of CO leads to the deactivation of the catalytic system. Various attempts to overcome this drawback have however been reported. 

It has been shown very recently that carbonylation reactions can also be performed by electrolyzing under CO a solution of organic halide containing... 

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