Palladium bonding

Photorefractivity is a property exhibited by some materials in which the redistribution in space of photogenerated charges will induce a nonuniform electric space-charge field which can, in turn, affect the refractive index of the material. In a new material the active species is a highly efficient cyclopalladated molecule97,98 shown in Figure 5. The palladium-bonded azobenzene molecule is conformationally locked, and gratings derived from cis—trans isomerizations can be safely excluded. 

The preparation of helically well-ordered polymers with stable screw-sense, which is able to be transmitted to newly formed polymer main-chains effectively, is highly desired for the development of new methodology for the synthesis of optically active helical polymers. An aromatizing polymerization of 1,2-diisocyanobenzenes is promoted by methylpalladium(II) complexes, producing poly(quinoxaline-2,3-diyl)s.146-148 The polymerization proceeds with successive insertion of the two isocyano groups of the diisocyanobenzene to the carbon palladium bond of... 

As described in the preceding sections, many domino reactions start with the formation of vinyl palladium species, these being formed by an oxidative addition of vinylic halides or triflates to Pd°. On the other hand, such an intermediate can also be obtained from the addition of a nucleophile to a divalent palladium-coordinated allene. Usually, some oxidant must be added to regenerate Pd11 from Pd° in order to achieve a catalytic cycle. Lu and coworkers [182] have used a protonolysis reaction of the formed carbon-palladium bond in the presence of excess halide ions to regenerate Pd2+ species. Thus, reaction of 6/1-386 and acrolein in the presence of Pd2+ and LiBr gave mainly 6/1-388. In some reactions 6/1-389 was formed as a side product (Scheme 6/1.98). 

These precatalysts invariably contain sp2 carbon-palladium bonds and usually require temperatures in excess of 120°C for their transformation into the active Pd(0) nanoparticle catalysts. 

A comparison of sp2 and sp3 carbon-palladium-bonded PdCys incorporating heterocycles... 

Dimethyl-4-methylene-l,3-dioxolan-2-one reacts with isonitriles in the presence of a palladium catalyst to afford iminofurans (Equation (121)).480 Successive insertion of isonitriles to the carbon-palladium bond of 7r-allylpalladium intermediate is postulated. 

In analogy to the mechanism of the palladium-catalyzed enyne cyclization, it is postulated that exposure of palladium(O) to acetic acid promotes in situ generation of hydridopalladium acetate LnPd"(H)(OAc). Alkyne hydrometallation affords the vinylpalladium complex A-10, which upon r-carbopalladation of the appendant alkyne provides intermediate B-7. Silane-mediated cleavage of carbon-palladium bond liberates the cyclized product along palladium(O), which reacts with acetic acid to regenerate hydridopalladium acetate to close the cycle (Scheme 33). 

In the presence of additional unsaturation, the intermediate a-palladium bond formed in these transformations can undergo a further Heck process to establish an additional C-C bond. The reactions of allylic alcohols with vinyl ethers proceed along this pathway and lead diastereoselectively to THFs (Equation (112)), with Cu(OAc)2409 and 02410 used as the stoichiometric oxidants. This methodology has been used to good effect in the syntheses of (—)-dihy-droxanthatin,409 fraxinellone limonoids,411 and mycalamide A.412... 

The reaction mechanism was considered to be oxidative cyclization, and pal-ladacyclopentene 32 was formed. Reductive elimination then occurs to give cyclobutene 33, whose bond isomerization occurs to give diene 28. The insertion of alkyne (DMAD) into the carbon palladium bond of 32 followed by reductive elimination occurs to give [2+2+2] cocyclization product 27. Although the results of the reactions of E- and Z-isomers of 29 with palladium catalyst 26a were accommodated by this pathway, Trost considered the possibility of migration of substituents. Therefore, 13C-labeled substrate 25 13C was used for this reaction. 

The allylic 2-alkynoates 77 are a group of special enynes with an ester linkage between their double bond and triple bond. When halopalladation of the triple bond is followed by C-C double bond insertion and the cleavage of the carbon-palladium bond, a series of y-lactones (78-81) can be obtained. 

The study of alkene insertions in complexes containing diphosphine ligands turned out to be more complicated than the study of the CO insertion reactions [13], When one attempts to carry out insertion reactions on acetylpalladium complexes decarbonylation takes place. When the reaction is carried out under a pressure of CO the observed rate of alkene insertion depends on the CO pressure due to the competition between CO and ethene coordination. Also, after insertion of the alkene into the acetyl species (3-elimination occurs, except for norbomene or norbomadiene as the alkene. In this instance, as was already reported by Sen [8,27] a syn addition takes place and in this strained skeleton no (3-elimination can take place. Therefore most studies on the alkene insertion and isolation of the intermediates concern the insertion of norbomenes [21,32], The main product observed for norbomene insertion into an acetyl palladium bond is the exo species (see Figure 12.8). 

Pd bond in Me2Pd(dmpe) [dmpe=l,2-bis(dimethylphosphino)ethane] to generate phosphinate-palladium species with extrusion of a methane molecule (Scheme 40). Upon treatment the resulting palladium species with diphenylphosphine oxides, the remaining methyl-palladium bond was pro-tonated and a phosphinyl(phosphinato)palladium complex (20) was isolated. 

Carbon monoxide insertion into the carbon-palladium bond of 4, followed by nucleophilic displacement with methoxide, gives a 4 1 mixture of trans and cis-dimethyl hex- endioate which is the desired l, 4-dicarbonylaton precursor to adipic acid. 

The interfacial chemistry of palladium electrodes (polycrystalline and single crystal) was surveyed by Soriaga etal. recently [103]. According to the authors, the remarkably rich interfacial chemistry of palladium may have its origin in the anomalously weak inter-metallic palladium-palladium bond, a circumstance that is expected not only to enhance lateral surface mobihties but also to facilitate the disruption of substrate-substrate bonds and/or the formation of substrate-adsorbate bonds. 

A very promising synthesis of /3-lactones has been recently reported, involving the palladium-catalyzed carbonylation reaction of halogeno alcohols. For example, 3-phenyl-2-oxetanone was obtained in 63% yield from 2-phenyl-2-bromoethanol in DMF solution at room temperature under 1 atmosphere pressure of carbon monoxide (equation 115). A proposed mechanism, in which palladium metal inserts into the carbon-halogen bond, followed by insertion of a molecule of carbon monoxide into the carbon-palladium bond and then ring closure, fits kinetics data (80JA4193). 

The structural determinations on a number of these palladium dppm dimers have been carried out and the palladium-palladium bond lengths are summarized in Table 2. 

A likely mechanism for this reaction involves the nucleophilic attack of alcohol on two molecules of coordinated CO, followed by the coupling of the two palladium-bonded alkoxycarbonyl moieties (equation 179).438,451 jn support of this mechanism, the reaction of the bis(methoxycarbonyl) complex (143) with CO and PPh3 produces dimethyl oxalate and the reduced palladium(O) complex.451... 

The catalytic cycle consists of the following basic reactions. In the first step (A) of the cycle, Pd species 29 undergoes oxidative addition of an alkenyl or aryl halide 30. The result is a a-alkonyl or a-aryl palladium complex 31. In the second step, alkene 32 coordinates with Pd(II) compound 31 This is followed by syn insertion (B) of the double bond into the alkenyl or aryl palladium bond... 

The mass spectrum of C5H5PdC10H12OMe, (CXXI), shows that the cyclopentadienyl-palladium bond is not very strong and the molecular ion readily loses CSH6 to give the ion C10HnOMePd+ (117). 

The cycle is started with the formation of a Pd-alkoxy complex that reacts with CO to an alkoxycarbonyl intermediate. In the next step, the approach of the olefin and insertion into the carbonyl palladium bond is predicted. In the last step, the starting complex is rebuilt by the addition of an alcohol and the cleavage of the hydroesterification product [59]. 

The reactions shown in Scheme 1 require activation of the aromatic C-H bond by a metal and subsequent insertion of an alkene or alkyne in the aryl-carbon palladium bond (Chapter III.1.3.2.5). C-H activation has been the topic of many studies since the 1960s and several metal complex systems are known to induce... 

The synthesis of selectively substituted benzoxepines from ortho-substituted aryl iodides and bromoenoates has been achieved by Lautens and coworkers by palladacycle alkylation followed by an intramolecular Heck reaction under the modified conditions reported in Eq. (8) for synthesis of l-(l-ethoxycarbonylmethy-lene)-9-methyl-4,5-dihydro-3-benzoxepine [8]. In the second example (Eq. 9) the palladium-bonded biphenylyl inserts diphenylacetylene to form 1,5-di-i-propyl-9,10-diphenylphenanthrene[9]. In the last case the synthesis of 4-methyl-5H-phenanthridin-6-one is achieved by palladium-catalyzed sequential C-C and C-N bond formation starting from o-iodotoluene and o-bromobenzamide [10]. 

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