Oxidative carbonylations palladium chloride

In the case of experiments performed under the conditions of run 6, but in the presence of 1 ml of methanol, 1.6 equivalent of dimethyl carbonate was obtained according to GC analysis. No dimethyl carbonate was observed in the absence of hydrogen chloride. Therefore, in the early stage of the carbonylation of 3, Pd/C is partly oxidized to palladium chloride (eqn. 2). This compound reacts in turn with CO and MeOH to give, according to one of the routes described in Scheme 2, dimethyl carbonate and a zerovalent palladium complex (noted [Pd]). 

Benzoic acid and naphthoic acid are formed by the oxidative carbonylation by use of Pd(OAc)2 in AcOH. t-Bu02H and allyl chloride are used as reoxidants. Addition of phenanthroline gives a favorable effect[360], Furan and thiophene are also carbonylated selectively at the 2-position[361,362]. fndole-3-carboxylic acid is prepared by the carboxylation of 1-acetylindole using Pd(OAc)2 and peroxodisulfate (Na2S208)[362aj. Benzoic acid derivatives are obtained by the reaction of benzene derivatives with sodium palladium mal-onate in refluxing AcOH[363]. 

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After ARCO patents issued, Stille and coworkers published on butadiene oxycarbonylation(14-16). Palladium was utilized as the oxidative carbonylation catalyst and copper(II) chloride was employed as a stoichiometric reoxidation agent for palladium. Although the desired hex-3 -enedioate is the exclusive product, commercial technology which uses stoichiometric copper is not practical. Once the copper(Il) is consumed, the monoatomic palladium spent catalyst agglomerates affording polymeric palladium which is not easily reoxidized to an active form. 

The oxidation of olefins to carbonyl compounds by palladium (II) ion can be regarded as an addition of a palladium hydroxide group to the olefin followed by a hydrogen shift. Kinetic evidence suggests the following mechanism for the oxidation of ethylene by palladium chloride in aqueous solution containing excess chloride ion 21, 49, 99). 

The oxidative carbonylation of arenes to aromatic acids is a useful reaction which can be performed in the presence of Wacker-type palladium catalysts (equation 176). The stoichiometric reaction of Pd(OAc)2 with various aromatic compounds such as benzene, toluene or anisole at 100 °C in the presence of CO gives aromatic acids in low to fair yields.446 This reaction is thought to proceed via CO insertion between a palladium-carbon (arene) allyl chloride, but substantial amounts of phenol and coupling by-products are formed.447... 

Acetic acid is manufactured by three processes acetaldehyde oxidation, //-butane oxidation, and methanol carbonylation.Ethylene is the exclusive organic raw material for making acetaldehyde, 70 percent of which is further oxidized to acetic acid or acetic anhydride. The single-stage (Wacker) process for making acetaldehyde involves cupric chloride and a small amount of palladium chloride in aqueous solution as a catalyst. 

The oxidation of olefins to carbonyl compounds by means of palladium chloride catalysts (and involving intermediate organopalladium compounds) 22, 225, 226),... 

Palladium chloride and metallic palladium are useful for carbonylating olefinic and acetylenic compounds. Further, palladium is active for decarbonylation of aldehydes and acyl halides. Homogeneous decarbonylation of aldehydes and acyl halides and carbonylation of alkyl halides were carried out smoothly using rhodium complexes. An acyl-rhodium complex, thought to be an intermediate in decarbonylation, was isolated by the oxidative addition of acyl halide to chlorotris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium. The mechanisms of these carbonylation and decarbonylation reactions are discussed. 

P-Lactones can be obtained by oxidative carbonylation of alkenes in the presence of water. Ethylene, for example, is converted to p-propiolactone by carbonylation in aqueous acetonitrile at -20 C using a catalytic amount of PdCh and a stoichiometric quantity of copper(II) chloride (equation 37). Palladium-catalyzed carbonylation of halides can also be used to prepare p-lactones under mild conditions. The reaction takes place at room temperature and pressure in the presence of [PdCl2(PPh3)2] and has been applied to both bromides and chlorides (equations 38 and 39). 

Palladium(II) chloride-copper(Il) chloride-carbon monoxide. 13, 235-236 Oxidative carbonylation. This combination of reagents is commonly used for homologation of alkynes. The products are usually obtained as the methyl esters. Heterocyclization attends C-C bond formation when a proper functional group is present at a short distance. 

The palladium chloride-coppeifll) chloride couple (28, 29) used industrially in the Wacker process oxidizes olefins to carbonyl compounds. Experimental kinetic and isotope effect data (30) seem to indicate that a TT-olefin complex is initially formed in a series of preequilibrium steps. The rate-determining step is postulated to be a rearrangement of the TT-olefin complex to a cr-complex followed by the final breakdown of the cr-complex to products. Figure 13 depicts the widely accepted Henry mechanism (31). 

While these initial examples were performed in the presence of stoichiometric amounts of palladium, the first catalytic dialkoxycarbonylation of olefins was independently described by Fenton [5] and Medema [6] in 1969 and 1970. More specifically, a catalytic amount of palladium was used together with an equivalent of CuCL, and the reactions were run at high pressure of CO and comparatively high reaction temperatures (140-150 °C). Heck demonstrated that CuCL is not able to efficiently reoxidize Pd(0) at low temperatures [7-9]. In 1972 Fenton and Steinwand reported on the oxidative carbonylation of olefins to succinates [10]. For the reoxidation of palladium, iron and copper chlorides were used, but oxygen should also have been present—otherwise only low yields of succinates were obtained. A related study of the hydroxycarbonylation of olefins was described by the same group [11]. Nowadays, this type of reaction is efficiently performed in the presence of protic acids. ... 

The examples of oxidative carbonylations of alkynes were reported on in 1964. Here, Tsuji et al. described the palladium-mediated transformation of acetylene into muconyl chloride, fumaryl and maleic acid chloride (Scheme 8.15) [77]. Later on, they used diphenylacetylene as a substrate for the synthesis of lactones in the presence of alcohol and HCl [78, 79]. 

A new process is the oxidative carbonylation of ethylene [459,460]. During the reaction the palladium catalyst is reoxidized by a cupric chloride cocatalyst system and oxygen. Selectivity is improved by the addition of a mercury or a tin salt [461]. 

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