Organometallic catalysis hydrogenation reaction

The fundamental properties of SCFs and their relation to organometallic catalysis have been reviewed extensively in recent years, and will not be re-iterated here [1, 7]. The term supercritical indicates that the substance used as reaction medium or solvent is heated and compressed beyond its critical temperature and pressure. For C02, which is the most widely used SCF in hydrogenation reactions, these values are Tc=31.04°C and pc=73.83 bar. Owing to the complex... 

Research into homogeneous hydrogenation and its applications prior to 1973 are comprehensively described in the now classic book of James [3]. More recent books on hydrogenation [1] and on aqueous organometallic catalysis [2] contain special chapters on hydrogenation reactions in water. In adition, all reviews on aqueous organometalhc catalysis devote considerable space to this topic, see e.g. references [9-12]. 

Redistribution of electron density in CT complexes results in a modification of the chemical properties of coordinated arenes, and this effect is widely used in organometallic catalysis [2]. To demonstrate the relationship between charge transfer in arene complexes and their reactivity, we focus our attention on carbon-hydrogen bond activation, nucleophilic/ electrophilic umpolung, and the donor/acceptor properties of arenes in a wide variety of organometallic reactions. 

The successful demonstration of the fluorous biphasic concept for performing organometallic catalysis sparked extensive interest in the methodology and it has subsequently been applied to a wide variety of catalytic reactions, including hydrogenation [59], Heck and Suzuki couplings [60, 61] and polymerizations [62]. The publication of a special Symposium in print devoted to the subject [63] attests to the broad interest in this area. 

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As a result, the majority of contributions to the present edition have had to be either updated or completely replaced by new articles. This applies to the sections mentioned above, but also to the rapidly growing area of enantioselective synthesis (Sections 3.3.1 and 3.2.6), the catalytic hydrogenation of sulfur- and nitrogen-containing compounds in raw oils (Section 3.2.13), the Pauson-Khand reaction (Section 3.3.7), and a number of industrially relevant topics covered under Applied Homogeneous Catalysis in Part 2. New aspects of organometallic catalysis have emerged from the chemistry of renewable resources (Section 3.3.9) and the chemistry around the multi-talented catalyst methyltrioxorhenium (Section 3.3.13). 

Since carbon dioxide is a thermodynamically stable, highly oxidized compound, its synthetic utilization requires some kind of a reduction -reaction with molecular hydrogen is a distinct possibility. Stepwise reduction of C02 with H2 may yield formic acid, formaldehyde, methanol and finally methane, together with CO or Fischer-Tropsch-type derivatives as shown on Scheme 3.42. In aqueous organometallic catalysis the most common product of such a reduction is formic acid. Formation of carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and methane has already been reported, however, methanol and Fischer-Tropsch type products were not observed. 

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Polborn and Severin [23] recently reported ruthenium- and rhodium-based TSAs for the transfer hydrogenation reaction. These complexes were used as catalyst precursors in combination with molecular imprinting techniques. Phosphinato complexes were prepared as analogs for the ketone-associated complex. They demonstrated that the results obtained in catalysis were better in terms of selectivity and activity when these TSAs were imprinted in the polymer. This shows that organometallic complexes can indeed serve as stable TSAs (Figure 4.9). 

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