Oxidative Addition of Other Molecules

Reactions of Group VIII Cobalt, Rhodium, and Iridium 10.3.7.5. Oxidative Addition of Other Molecules... 

The scope of such reactions is extended to include the oxidative addition of other molecules such as H2 and organic halides, e.g. ... 

The free amino group of the amino ester may then react analogously with another molecule of the monomer, etc. The kinetics of the polymerization are in harmony with a mechanism of this sort. The final polypeptide may contain up to 300 or more structural units. While the polymerization of N-carboxyanhydrides is closely analogous to the addition polymerizations of ethylene oxide and of other cyclic substances, definition unfortunately classifies it as a condensation polymerization inasmuch as carbon dioxide is eliminated in the process. 

The main steps in the catalytic MeOH carbonylation cyde which were proposed for the Co catalysed process [2] have served, with some modification perhaps in the carbonylation of MeOAc to AC2O, to the present day and are familiar as a classic example of a metal catalysed reaction. These steps are shown in Eigure 5.1. They are of course, (i) the oxidative addition of Mel to a metal center to form a metal methyl species, (ii) the migratory insertion reaction which generates a metal acyl from the metal methyl and coordinated CO and (iii) reductive elimination or other evolution of the metal acyl spedes to products. Broadly, as will be discussed in more detail later, the other ligands in the metal environment are CO and iodide. To balance the overall chemistry a molecule of CO must also enter the cycle. 

Based on the foregoing experimental results, the versatility of metal carbonyls and their derivatives in their reactions with liquid NH3 may be summarized as follows (/) substitution of CO or other ligands by NH3 without change in the oxidation number of the transition metal in question (2) conversion of covalent carbonyl complexes into ionic compounds by addition of NH3 molecules (3) base reactions" in which the transition metal is reduced to a carbonyl metalate with complementary oxidation of a CO ligand to CO(NH2)2 (4) valence disproportionations with... 

Basicity and Neutralisation of the Phosphoric Acids.—The crystalline forms and other properties of the different phosphates of sodium were described by Graham.4 The ordinary phosphate of soda is a highly alkaline salt, although generally viewed as neutral in composition. Mitscherlich found that a solution of this salt required the addition of half as much acid as it already possesses to deprive it of an alkaline reaction. 4 By heating, the salt was found to contain 25-2 molecules of water to 1 molecule of phosphoric oxide. One of these molecules was retained to a higher temperature than the others. The phosphate of soda contains 3 atoms base namely, 2 atoms soda and 1 atom water. When this last atom was lost the sodium salt changed into that of a different acid, namely, a pyrophosphate. 5 In modern symbols—... 

Chalk and Harrod provided the first mechanistic explanation for the transition metal catalyzed hydrosilation as early as in 1965. Their mechanism was derived from studies with Speier s catalyst and provided a general scheme, which could be used also for other transition metals. The catalytic cycle consists of an initial oxidative addition (see Oxidative Addition) of the Si-H bond, followed by coordination of the unsaturated molecule, a subsequent migratory insertion (see Insertion) into the metal-hydride bond and eventually a reductive elimination (see Reductive Elimination) (Scheme 3 lower cycle). The scheme provides an explanation for the observed Z-geometry in the hydrosilation of alkynes, which is a consequence of the syn-addition mechanism. The observation of silated alkenes as by-products in the hydrosilation of alkenes along with the lack of well-established stoichiometric examples of reductive elimination of aUcylsilanes from alkyl silyl metal complexes... 

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