Palladium complexes with Tris

The asymmetric hydrosilylation of 1-alkenes giving highly optically active 2-tri-chlorosilylalkanes is catalyzed by palladium complexes with chiral monodentate binaphthyl phosphine (MOP) ligands. ... 

The reversible reaction of tri-n-butylstannylfuran with the cyclometallated palladium complex 24 yields the ti C) coordinated 2-furyl complex 25 (98JA11016). 

Nickel and palladium react with a number of olefins other than ethylene, to afford a wide range of binary complexes. With styrene (11), Ni atoms react at 77 K to form tris(styrene)Ni(0), a red-brown solid that decomposes at -20 °C. The ability of nickel atoms to coordinate three olefins with a bulky phenyl substituent illustrates that the steric and electronic effects (54,141) responsible for the stability of a tris (planar) coordination are not sufficiently great to preclude formation of a tris complex rather than a bis (olefin) species as the highest-stoichiometry complex. In contrast to the nickel-atom reaction, chromium atoms react (11) with styrene, to form both polystyrene and an intractable material in which chromium is bonded to polystyrene. It would be interesting to ascertain whether such a polymeric material might have any catal3dic activity, in view of the current interest in polymer-sup-ported catalysts (51). 

Not only do palladium complexes catalyze reactions of Eq. (58), but nickel complexes were also effective (51) and formed the same products. Complexes such as Fe(CO)5 and Fe2(CO)8 were ineffective. Cobalt carbonyl, and tris-triphenylphosphinerhodium chloride were effective even at room temperature, but no 2 1 adducts were made. With both palladium and nickel, the activity of the catalyst and the distribution of products between 1 1 and 2 1 adducts is greatly dependent on the nature of the donor ligands on the metal. 

Ellis, J.W., Harrison, K.N., Hoye, P.A.T., Orpen, A.G., Pringle, P.G., and Smith, M.B., Water-soluble tris(hydroxymethyl)phosphine complexes with nickel, palladium, and platinum. Crystal structure of Pd P(CH2OH)3 4].cntdot.CH3, Inorg. Chem., 31, 3026, 1992. 

Dinuclear palladium complexes catalyze m-hydroarylation of alkynes with arenes.56 The reaction of 3-hexyne with benzene in the presence of a dinulear palladium complex Pd2R2(M-OH)(//-dpfam) [dpfam = j/V,Ar -bis[2-(diphenyl-phosphino)phenyl]formamidinate, R=/>-Tol] and tri(/z-butyl)borane at 100 °C for 4h affords ( )-3-phenyl-3-hexene quantitatively (Equation (53)). The hydroarylation of 3-hexyne with monosubstituted benzenes ( )-3-aryl-3-hexenes with a 2 1 ratio of the meta- and ra -isomers. This regioselectivity is different from that of the hydroarylation of diphenylacetylene catalyzed by Rh4(GO)12.57... 

The use of a lipophilic zinc(II) macrocycle complex, 1-hexadecyl-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane, to catalyze hydrolysis of lipophilic esters, both phosphate and carboxy (425), links this Section to the previous Section. Here, and in studies of the catalysis of hydrolysis of 4-nitrophenyl acetate by the Zn2+ and Co2+ complexes of tris(4,5-di-n-propyl-2 -imidazolyl)phosphine (426) and of a phosphate triester, a phos-phonate diester, and O-isopropyl methylfluorophosphonate (Sarin) by [Cu(A(A(A/,-trimethyl-A/,-tetradecylethylenediamine)l (427), various micellar effects have been brought into play. Catalysis of carboxylic ester hydrolysis is more effectively catalyzed by A"-methylimidazole-functionalized gold nanoparticles than by micellar catalysis (428). Other reports on mechanisms of metal-assisted carboxy ester hydrolyses deal with copper(II) (429), zinc(II) (430,431), and palladium(II) (432). 

The water-soluble palladium complex prepared from [Pd(MeCN)4](Bp4)2 and tetrasulfonated DPPP (34, n=3, m=0) catalyzed the copolymerization of CO and ethene in neutral aqueous solutions with much lower activity [21 g copolymer (g Pd) h ] [53] than the organosoluble analogue in methanol. Addition of strong Brpnsted acids with weakly coordinating anions substantially accelerated the reaction, and with a catalyst obtained from the same ligand and from [Pd(OTs)2(MeCN)2] but in the presence of p-toluenesulfonic acid (TsOH) 4 kg copolymer was produced per g Pd in one hour [54-56] (Scheme 7.16). Other tetrasulfonated diphosphines (34, n=2, 4 or 5, m=0) were also tried in place of the DPPP derivative, but only the sulfonated DPPB (n=4) gave a catalyst with considerably higher activity [56], Albeit with lower productivity, these Pd-complexes also catalyze the CO/ethene/propene terpolymerization. 

Unactivated aryl iodides undergo the conversion Arl — ArCHj when treated with tris(diethylamino)sulfonium difluorotrimethylsilicate and a palladium catalyst.131 A number of methods, all catalyzed by palladium complexes, have been used to prepare unsymmetrical biaryls (see also 3-16). In these methods, aryl bromides or iodides are coupled with aryl Grignard reagents,152 with arylboronic acids ArB(OH)2,153 with aryltin compounds Ar-SnR3,154 and with arylmercury compounds.155 Unsymmetrical binaphthyls were synthesized by photochemically stimulated reaction of naphthyl iodides with naphthoxide ions in an SrnI reaction.156 Grignard reagents also couple with aryl halides without a palladium catalyst, by the benzyne mechanism.157 OS VI, 916 65, 108 66, 67. 

Since the substitution reaction succeeded so well with olefins, the obvious extension to acetylenes was tried. Of course, only terminal acetylenes could be used if an acetylenic product was to be formed. This reaction has been found to occur but probably not by a mechanism analogous to the reaction of olefins (43,44). It was found that the more acidic acetylene phenylacetylene reacted with bromobenzene in the presence of triethylamine and a bisphos-phine-palladium complex to form diphenylacetylene, while the less acidic acetylene, 1-hexyne did not react appreciably under the same conditions. The reaction did occur when the more basic amine piperidine was used instead of triethylamine, however (43). Both reactions occur with sodium methoxide as the base (44). It therefore appears that the acetylide anion is reacting with the catalyst and that a reductive elimination of the disubstituted acetylene is... 

This result has been explained72 390 by the particular instability of the alkene complex resulting from exocyclic addition (14) relative to endocyclic addition (15) in the cyclohexyl system. This rationale is supported by the results obtained by the use of the considerably more sterically bulky tri-o-tolylphos-phine instead of triphenylphosphine. A 13 83 exocyclic endocyclic ratio is obtained with the bulky phosphine. This result is nicely explained by the ability of the bulky phosphine to magnify the instability of the endocyclic alkene-palladium complex (14) relative to the exocyclic alkene complex (15) and favor endocyclic addition. 

Ketones from halohydrins. Palladium acetate complexed with a triarylphos-phine, particularly tri-o-tolylphosphine, converts halohydrins into ketones in the presence of K2C03. Yields are about 70-85% for substrates in which the halogen is secondary or tertiary, but less than 50% when the halogen is primary because of epoxide formation. The reaction is useful for conversion of alkenes to ketones in those instances in which halohydrins are formed regioselectively. 

With this end in view, phenyldimcthylsilyl tri-n-butylstannane was added under the influence of zero-valent palladium compound with high regioselectivity and in excellent yield to the acetylene 386 to give the metallated olefin 387 (Scheme 56). The vinyl lithium carbanion 388 generated therefrom, was then converted by reaction with cerium(lll) chloride into an equilibrium mixture (1 1) of the cerium salts 389 and 390 respectively. However, the 1,2-addition of 389 to the caibonyl of 391, which in principle would have eventually led to ( )-pretazettine, did not occur due to steric reasons — instead, only deprotonation of 391 was observed. On the other hand, 390 did function as a suitable nucleophile to provide the olefinic product 392. Exposure of 392 to copper(II) triflate induced its transformation via the nine membered enol (Scheme 55) to the requisite C-silyl hydroindole 393. On treatment with tetrafluoroboric acid diethyl ether complex in dichloromethane, compound 393 suffered... 

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