Palladium on barium sulfate

The reaction is used for the chain extension of aldoses in the synthesis of new or unusual sugars In this case the starting material l arabinose is an abundant natural product and possesses the correct configurations at its three chirality centers for elaboration to the relatively rare l enantiomers of glucose and mannose After cyanohydrin formation the cyano groups are converted to aldehyde functions by hydrogenation m aqueous solution Under these conditions —C=N is reduced to —CH=NH and hydrolyzes rapidly to —CH=0 Use of a poisoned palladium on barium sulfate catalyst prevents further reduction to the alditols... 

As catalyst for the Rosenmund reaction palladium on a support, e.g. palladium on barium sulfate, is most often used. The palladium has to be made less active in order to avoid further reduction of the aldehyde to the corresponding alcohol. Such a poisoned catalyst is obtained for example by the addition of quinoline and sulfur. Recent reports state that the reactivity of the catalyst is determined by the morphology of the palladium surface." ... 

Support has been shown to influence selectivity and some workers have obtained higher yields of cis isomer over palladium-on-calcium carbonate or palladium-on-barium sulfate 21), whereas others find carbon satisfactory. In general, carbon support makes the more active catalyst and it is, therefore, more prone to become hydrogen poor. 

Partial reduction of the acetylenes 1 over 10 % palladium on barium sulfate yields the ra-alkenes 2 which ring close spontaneously to the 3//-2-benzazepines 3.78 Reduction with Raney nickel is less successful and produces mixtures of the 3-benzazepines and their 4,5-dihydro derivatives. 

In the above mentioned reaction, platinum oxide and palladium on barium sulfate showed no perceptible change in the rate of hydrogen uptake. On the other hand, platinum oxide was selective in the hydrogenation of cyclohexa-2,4-diene-l,2-dicarboxylic acid to 1,4,5,6-tetrahydrophthalic acid140. A similar result may be the favored reduction of a symmetrical disubstituted double bond over a more hindered trisubstituted bond. The retarding effect of additional substitution is demonstrated in the hydrogenation of a trisubstituted double bond in the presence of a tetrasubstituted double bond (equation 53)141. 

Cyclododecene may be prepared from 1,5,9-cyclododecatriene by the catalytic reduction with Raney nickel and hydrogen diluted with nitrogen, with nickel sulfide on alumina, with cobalt, iron, or nickel in the presence of thiophene, with palladium on charcoal, with palladimn chloride in the presence of water, with palladium on barium sulfate, with cobalt acetate in the presence of cobalt carbonyl, and with cobalt carbonyl and tri- -butyl phosphine. It may also be obtained from the triene by reduction with lithium and ethylamine, by disproportionation, - by epoxidation followed by isomerization to a ketone and WoliT-Kishner reduction, and from cyclododecanone by the reaction of its hydrazone with sodium hydride. ... 

Pyrazole was hydrogenated over palladium on barium sulfate in acetic acid to 4,5-dihydropyrazole (A -pyrazoline), and 1-phenylpyrazole at 70-80° to 1-phenylpyrazolidine [478]. In benzopyrazole (indazole) and its homologs and derivatives the six-membered ring is hydrogenated preferentially to give... 

Oeavage of esters to acids and hydrocarbons mentioned above was achieved not only with hydrides but also by catalytic hydrogenation and reduction with metals. For example the acetate of mandelic acid was converted to mandelic acid and acetic acid by hydrogenation at 20° and 1 atm over palladium on barium sulfate in ethanol in the presence of triethylamine in 10 minutes [1035], and a,a-diphenylphthalide was reduced by refluxing for 5 hours with zinc in formic acid to a,a-diphenyl-o-toluic acid in 92% yield [1036]. Such reductions are of immense importance in esters of benzyl-type alcohols where the yields of the acids are almost quantitative. 

Phthalimide was hydrogenated catalytically at 60-80° over palladium on barium sulfate in acetic acid containing an equimolar quantity of sulfuric or perchloric acid to phthalimidine [7729]. The same compound was produced in 76-80% yield by hydrogenation over nickel at 200° and 200-250 atm [43 and in 75% yield over copper chromite at 250° and 190 atm [7730]. Reduction with lithium aluminum hydride, on the other hand, reduced both carbonyls and gave isoindoline (yield 5%) [7730], also obtained by electroreduction on a lead cathode in sulfuric acid (yield 72%) [7730]. 

The 5% palladium on barium sulfate was purchased from Engelhard Industries, Newark, NO. 

Hydrogenation of dimeric nitroso compounds with a palladium-on-barium sulfate catalyst [17] (Eq. 46). 

Acyl halides can be reduced to aldehydes1206 by treatment with lithium tri-f-butoxyaluminum hydride in diglyme at -78°C,1207 R may be alkyl or aryl and may contain many types of substituents, including N02, CN, and EtOOC groups. The reaction stops at the aldehyde stage because steric hindrance prevents further reduction under these conditions. Acyl halides can also be reduced to aldehydes by hydrogenolysis with palladium-on-barium sulfate... 

The oily residue is then hydrogenated at 17 p.s.i. of hydrogen with 5% palladium-on-barium sulfate in 100 ml of 2 N hydrochloric acid for six hours. The reaction mixture is filtered, made alkaline and taken through ether to give the tetrahydro base as a clear oil. 

The compound of formula (5) is next subjected to selective hydrogenation to convert the acetylenic bond to an ethylenic bond. This can be readily accomplished by a number of different catalysts, such as a nickel catalyst prepared from a nickel salt and NaBFi4, Lindlar catalyst, or 5% palladium on barium sulfate in the presence of qunioline. The reaction was run at one atmosphere. Analyses by nuclear magnetic resonance and vapor phase chromatography showed the correct structure in good quantity. The product obtained was 3,7,ll,15-tetramethylhexadeca-2,5-dien-l-acetate (6), a C2o dienolacetate. 

A heterogeneous catalyst for the hydrogenation of alkynes to cis alkenes. In its most common form, it consists of a thin coating of palladium on barium sulfate, with quinoline added to decrease the catalytic activity, (p. 406)... 

Hydrogenation of these cyanohydrins gives two imines, which hydrolyze to aldehydes. A poisoned catalyst of palladium on barium sulfate is used for the hydrogenation, to avoid overreduction. 

Phenylethylamine has been made by a number of reactions, many of which are unsuitable for preparative purposes. Only the most important methods, from a preparative point of view, are given here. The present method is adapted from that of Adkins,1 which in turn was based upon those of Mignonac,2 von Braun and coworkers,3 and Mailhe.4 Benzyl cyanide has been converted to the amine by catalytic reduction with palladium on charcoal,5 with palladium on barium sulfate,6 and with Adams catalyst 7 by chemical reduction with sodium and alcohol,8 and with zinc dust and mineral acids.9 Hydrocinnamic acid has been converted to the azide and thence by the Curtius rearrangement to /3-phenyl-ethylamine 10 also the Hofmann degradation of hydrocinnamide has been used successfully.11 /3-Nitrostyrene,12 phenylthioaceta-mide,13 and the benzoyl derivative of mandelonitrile 14 all yield /3-phenylethylamine upon reduction. The amine has also been prepared by cleavage of N- (/3-phenylethyl) -phthalimide 15 with hydrazine by the Delepine synthesis from /3-phenylethyl iodide and hexamethylenetetramine 16 by the hydrolysis of the corre-... 

Alternative catalysts such as palladium-on-barium sulfate (poisoned by synthetic quinoline) (24), "P-2" nickel boride (with ethylenediamine) (25), and other nickel catalysts (19c) can be used in place of Lindlar catalyst. However, in our hands selective hydrogenation of triple bonds to Z olefins proceeds with the greatest stereoselectivity with Lindlar catalyst. Palladium-on-barium sulfate (in ethanol with quinoline) can give considerable over-reduction and isomerization to the E isomer (22a). Use of "P-2" nickel boride as the catalyst at room temperature usually gives a. 2% of the J5 isomer (e.g. 23). 

In contrast to Lindlar catalyst we have found that the hydrogenation of an alkyne over ethylenediamine-poisoned "P-2" nickel boride or quinoline-poisoned palladium-on-barium sulfate always gives a minor amount of the saturated hydrocarbon in addition to the olefin. The ratio of saturated hydrocarbon to olefin (about 0.01) also is nearly constant throughout the hydrogenation until the alkyne is consumed, and then it increases. Further reaction of the alkene on the catalyst surface before desorption would explain these results. 

This intermediate was alkylated with tert. -butyI-cj-iodohexanoate to the ester 30. Conversion to the acid 31 was achieved by cleavage of the fed.-butylester with trifluoroacetic acid at low temperature. The triple bond was reduced to a trans-double bond and simultanously the benzylether groups had been removed with lithium in ethylamine, under formation of the desired 15-deoxy-7-oxaprostaglandin Fla 32 in crystalline form. The ds-isomer was prepared by first reducing the triple bond of compound 30 with palladium on barium sulfate to 33, removal of the ted. -butylgroup with formic acid to 34 and debenzylation of the acid with lithium in ethylamine to 35. 

Palladium on barium sulfate, Pd/BaS04 Acts as a hydrogenation catalyst for nitriles in the Kiliani-Fischer chain-lengthening reaction of carbohydrates (Section 25.6). 

Palladium on barium sulfate was purchased from Fluka Chemie AG and pyridine (99.5%) was obtained from Chimie-Plus Laboratones (St.-Priest, France) and dried over calcium hydride before use. 

Another commercial aldehyde synthesis is the catalytic dehydrogenation of primary alcohols at high temperature in the presence of a copper or a copper-chromite catalyst. Although there are several other synthetic processes employed, these tend to be smaller scale reactions. For example, acyl halides can be reduced to the aldehyde (Rosemnund reaction) using a palladium-on-barium sulfate catalyst. Formylation of aryl compounds, similar to hydrofomiylation, using HCN and HQ (Gatterman reaction) or carbon monoxide and HQ (Gatterman-Koch reaction) can be used to produce aromatic aldehydes. 

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