Palladium complexes applications

The conversion of ethylene to acetaldehyde using a soluble palladium complex, developed in the late 1950s, was one of the early applications of homogeneous catalysis and the first organo-palladium reaction practised on an industrial scale [40], Typically this reaction requires stoichiometric amounts of CuCl under aerobic conditions. The use of copper represents not only an environmental issue, but often limits the scope of ligands that can be used in conjunction with Pd. 

In preparing this chapter, the authors surveyed a vast literature seeking studies with original findings, convincing explanations, and probable useful applications. Merely solid studies were downplayed, as their results are more or less predictable. Whenever possible, studies of palladium complexes were placed in their broader context, with minimal dilution of the content of this chapter. 

One of the main applications of dendrimers is in catalysis allowing easy recycling of the homogeneous catalyst by means of nanofiltration. Carbosilane dendrimers functionalized with diphenylphosphine groups at the periphery have been synthesized and characterized. Palladium complexes of these dendrimers have been used as catalysts in the allylic alkylation reaction. These dendrimeric catalysts can be used in a continuous process using a membrane reactor.509... 

In summary, these results demonstrate that air-stable POPd, POPdl and POPd2 complexes can be directly employed to mediate the rate-limiting oxidative addition of unactivated aryl chlorides in the presence of bases, and that such processes can be incorporated into efficient catalytic cycles for a variety of cross-coupling reactions. Noteworthy are the efficiency for unactivated aryl chlorides simplicity of use, low cost, air- and moisture-stability, and ready accessibility of these complexes. Additional applications of these air-stable palladium complexes for catalysis are currently under investigation. 

Few other examples of such reaction sequences have been described to date. Oh has reported the palladium-catalyzed reductive cyclizations of 1,6-enynes in the presence of formic acid or triethylsilane via an alkylpalladium intermediate and its application to organic synthesis. Palladium complexes also catalyze the conversion of a range of enynes to cyclic 6,7-unsaturated carboxylic acids in the presence of CO.260... 

Beyond the numerous applications of palladium in transition metal-catalyzed domino reactions there are a lot of other metals inducing domino processes. Ihara et al. found a strategy for the enan-tioselective synthesis of (+)-equilenin catalyzed by mangan and palladium complexes,1841 Whitby et al.1851 initiated domino cyclizations on a zirconocene template and furthermore Scherf et al. generated phenantrones by a nickel-mediated one-pot domino reaction.1861... 

The aqueous-organic two-phase system was successfully applied to perform hydrocarboxylation.300 Palladium complexes of trisulfonated triphenylphosphine ligands were shown to exhibit high activity.301-303 The application of cosolvents and modified cyclodextrins allow to eliminate solubility problems associated with the transformation of higher alkenes.304... 

N-containing, in cobalt(III) complexes, 7, 28 in nickel complexes, 8, 120 palladium complexes, 8, 276 synthetic applications corroles, 1, 70... 

Nickel, palladium and platinum - The low natural abundance of the 61Ni isotope means that there is a paucity of data on NMR spectroscopy of this element, although much useful information can be derived from spectra of ligand nuclei (e.g. Zschunke et al., 1992 Oik et al., 1992). In the case of 105Pd, the large value of the quadrupole moment presents additional difficulties for direct spectroscopic measurements and, as with nickel, NMR studies have concentrated on the characterisation of ligand nuclei. An example here is the application of two-dimensional NMR to investigate the structure of a nucleic acid palladium complex (Bichenkova et al., 1992). 

The application of this approach to phosphorus dendrimers is readily applied11111 to the creation of a tetrahedral series via the use of a four-directional silane core (Scheme 4.26). The treatment of tetravinylsilane (78) with phosphine 98 quantitatively gave the desired small dendrimer 99, which can be transformed to the tetrakis(square planar palladium) complex see Chapter 8. 

Vinyl epoxides can also be used as substrates for formation of optically active allyl amines catalyzed by the same type of chiral palladium complexes as in Eq. (10). By reaction of simple vinyl epoxides with phthalimide as the nitrogen source in the presence of the chiral palladium complexes as the catalyst, very high ee (> 98 %) and regioselectivity (> 97 %) were obtained [26]. A variety of different applications of the use of the palladium-catalyzed approach for the formation of allyl amines and the use of this in total synthesis has been pursued by several research groups, and further details can be obtained in a review by Trost et al. [19d]. 

The amination of aryl halides and triflates catalyzed by palladium complexes is suitable for use in complex synthetic problems. Many substrates will produce high yields of mixed arylamines with one of the existing catalyst systems. Nevertheless, there are many combinations of substrates for which the amination chemistry may be substantially improved. For the most part, these reactions involve nitrogen centers, such as those in pyrroles, indoles, amides, imidazoles and other heterocyclic groups that are less basic than those in standard alkylamines. Although mild reaction conditions have been developed for many substrates, the harsh conditions used in many of the applications indicate that continued studies on developing mild condi-... 

Very recently, Stahl et al. reported the first synthesis of a 7-membered NHC ligand [98]. Despite substantial effort, the isolation of the free carbene 21 was not successful. However, palladium complexes of 21 could be formed and structurally characterized. Ligand 21 is C2 symmetric as a result of a torsional twist which is thought to attenuate the antiaromatic character of the 87r-electron carbene heterocycle [101,102]. It will be interesting to see, if the synthesis of conformationally stable analogues and their application in asymmetric catalysis will be feasible. 

Finally, Fiirstner et al. published the synthesis of the enantiopure chiral palladium(II) complex 29, in which the NHC, contains a trans-1,2-cyclohexanediamine backbone (Scheme 22), although no application of this system in catalysis has been reported to date [60,61]. The N-heterocyclic car-bene palladium complex is obtained by oxidative addition of Pd(PPh3)4 to 2-chloro-l,3-disubstituted imidazolium salts that are easily accessible. 

Trost s synthesis138 of desethylibogamine (233) illustrates the application of a new approach to alkaloid synthesis, in which the two vital cyclization processes involve catalysis by palladium complexes protection of the nitrogen by formation of an amide, so often necessary in conventional syntheses, is here unnecessary. The first of the cyclization processes, (234)—>(235), results in a very neat formation of the isoquinuclidine ring system via a palladium-catalysed SN2 cyclization of the tryptamine derivative (234) (Scheme 24). 

Conversion of ethylene to acetaldehyde with a soluble palladium complex was one of the early applications of homogeneous catalysis. Traditionally, acetaldehyde was manufactured either by the hydration of acetylene or by the oxidation of ethanol. As most of the acetic acid manufacturing processes were based on acetaldehyde oxidation, the easy conversion of ethylene to acetaldehyde by the Wacker process was historically a significant discovery. With the... 

A spectacular application allowed the synthesis of fenestranes by a three-step sequential action of cobalt nanoparticles and a palladium catalyst [131]. The cascade reaction started with a PKR of enyne 105, accomplished by the cobalt catalyst giving 106, followed by the formation of allyl-7r3 palladium complex 107 which reacted with a nucleophile derived from diethyl malonate, to give enyne 108. The final step was a second PKR that gave 109 in good yield. They used cobalt nanoparticles as with Co/charcoal the third step did not take place, apparently due to damage in this catalyst after the allylation step (Scheme 31). 

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