Palladium complexes alkoxides

Palladium complexes also catalyze the carbonylation of halides. Aryl (see 13-13), vinylic, benzylic, and allylic halides (especially iodides) can be converted to carboxylic esters with CO, an alcohol or alkoxide, and a palladium complex. Similar reactivity was reported with vinyl triflates. Use of an amine instead of the alcohol or alkoxide leads to an amide. Reaction with an amine, AJBN, CO, and a tetraalkyltin catalyst also leads to an amide. Similar reaction with an alcohol, under Xe irradiation, leads to the ester. Benzylic and allylic halides were converted to carboxylic acids electrocatalytically, with CO and a cobalt imine complex. Vinylic halides were similarly converted with CO and nickel cyanide, under phase-transfer conditions. ... 

The last possibility for ester formation (20, Figure 12.15) comprises the reductive elimination of esters from acyl-alkoxy-palladium complexes 17, formed by deprotonation of the alcohol adducts 16. Clearly, it requires cis coordination of the alkoxide and acyl fragment. Since monodentates have a preference for ester formation, it was thought that this mechanism was very unlikely. 

Various mechanisms for the aerobic oxidation of alcohols catalysed by (NHC)Pd (carboxylate)2(H20) complexes [NHC = l,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene] were investigated using DFT combined with a solvent model. Of these, reductive j3-hydride elimination, in which the -hydrogen of a palladium-bound alkoxide is transferred directly to the free oxygen of the bound carboxylate, provided the lowest-energy route and explained the published kinetic isotope effect, activation enthalpy, reaction orders, and dependence of rate on carboxylate pKa.26S... 

Heterometal alkoxide precursors, for ceramics, 12, 60-61 Heterometal chalcogenides, synthesis, 12, 62 Heterometal cubanes, as metal-organic precursor, 12, 39 Heterometallic alkenes, with platinum, 8, 639 Heterometallic alkynes, with platinum, models, 8, 650 Heterometallic clusters as heterogeneous catalyst precursors, 12, 767 in homogeneous catalysis, 12, 761 with Ni—M and Ni-C cr-bonded complexes, 8, 115 Heterometallic complexes with arene chromium carbonyls, 5, 259 bridged chromium isonitriles, 5, 274 with cyclopentadienyl hydride niobium moieties, 5, 72 with ruthenium—osmium, overview, 6, 1045—1116 with tungsten carbonyls, 5, 702 Heterometallic dimers, palladium complexes, 8, 210 Heterometallic iron-containing compounds cluster compounds, 6, 331 dinuclear compounds, 6, 319 overview, 6, 319-352... 

Allylic carbonates produce the required alkoxide by decarboxylation of the carbonate anion that is displaced in the formation of the 7E-allyl palladium intermediate. Deprotonation creates the active nucleophile, which rapidly traps the 7t-allyl palladium complex to give the allylated product and regenerates the palladium(O) catalyst. 

Allylic carbonates undergo a useful conversion to 7r-aUyl palladium complexes. A Pd reagent readily reacts with an allylic carbonate to form a cationic tt-allyl palladium species. The alkyl carbonate anion loses CO2 to generate a basic alkoxide anion, which is capable of deprotonating other species in the reaction medium. 

Palladium(II)-catalyzed 1,4-additions to conjugated dienes, in which at least one alkoxide function is added, require the presence of an alcohol function. In all cases known so far, this involves an alkoxypalladation of tlie conjugated diene to give an intermediate 4-alkoxy-l,2,3-(jr-allyl)palladium complex. Subsequent nucleophilic attack on the jr-allyl... 

The electronic effects on the reductive elimination of aryl ethers from BlNAP-ligated palladium complexes (Eq. 6) was studied by Widenhoefer and Buchwald. Because the reductive elimination of acyclic ethers required activated palladium-bound aiyl groups, the scope of the arylpalladium alkoxide complexes was limited. An example of elimination from an oxametallacycle that contained an unactivated aryl group demonstrated that the formation of cychc ethers may become more general. Nonetheless, studies on these systems showed that the factors that control elimination of ethers are similar to those that control elimination of amines. For example, alkoxide complexes that are more electron rich at the alkoxide oxygen underwent faster reductive elimination than those that are more electron poor. Elimination of diaryl ethers from arylpalladium phenoxides did not occur. 

The insertion of olefins into the metal-oxygen bonds of isolated alkoxo, phenoxo, or hydroxo compounds has been observed directly in a few cases. As will be noted in Chapter 11, a hydroxy or alkoxyalkyl group can be formed by insertion of an olefin into a metal-oxygen bond or by attack of hydroxide or an alkoxide on a coordinated olefin. Many studies described in Chapter 11 imply that this type of compound is formed by nucleophilic attack on a coordinatively saturated olefin complex, and this reaction has been proposed as the C-0 bond-forming step during oxidations of olefins catalyzed by palladium complexes. However, Henry provided some of the first evidence that the C-0 bond forms by insertion of olefins into metal-hydroxo and -alkoxo complexes under certain reaction conditions. ... 

Four classes of catalysts have been used for the coupling of amines and related nitrogen nucleophiles witii aryl halides. Initially, complexes of the hindered monodentate aromatic tri-ortlio-tolylphosphine catalyzed the reaction of aryl bromides with secondary amines in the presence of an alkoxide or silylamide base. The use of this catalyst for this type of coupling to form C-N bonds was based on an earlier report of the reaction of aryl bromides with tin amides in the presence of a palladium complex of the same ligand as catalyst. - Later, complexes containing aromatic bisphosphines, such as BINAP and dppf, were... 

A vast majority of the allylic substitution reactions have been reported with palladium catalysts. However, complexes of other metals also catalyze allylic substitution reactions. In particular, complexes of molybdenum,tungsten, ruthenium, rhodium, and iridium " have been shown to catalyze the reactions of a variety of carbon nucleo-pliiles. In addition, complexes of ruthenium, rhodium, and iridium catalyze the reactions of phenoxides, alkoxides, amines, and amine derivatives. " The regioselectivity of the allylic substitution process witli these metals can often complement the regioselectivity of the reactions catalyzed by palladium complexes. The regioselectivity... 

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