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C and 600 psig. Hydrocarbon by-products increase if the catalyst is reused and with increased temperature but decrease with increased pressure. Rhodium or palladium with rhenium also shows synergistic effects (27). A catalyst made from Re207 and Pd(N03)2-on-carbon gave a 97% yield of 1,6-hexanediol from adipic acid 10). 

Chitosan (Fig. 27) was deposited on sihca by precipitation. The palladium complex was shown to promote the enantioselective hydrogenation of ketones [80] with the results being highly dependent on the structure of the substrate. In the case of aromatic ketones, both yield and enantioselectiv-ity depend on the N/Pd molar ratio. Low palladium contents favored enan-tioselectivity but reduced the yield. Very high conversions were obtained with aliphatic ketones, although with modest enantioselectivities. More recently, the immobilized chitosan-Co complex was described as a catalyst for the enantioselective hydration of 1-octene [81]. Under optimal conditions, namely Co content 0.5 mmolg and 1-octene/Co molar ratio of 50, a 98% yield and 98% ee were obtained and the catalyst was reused five times without loss of activity or enantioselectivity. 

The use of palladium as a catalyst is common in the development and synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Palladium is an expensive metal and has no known biological function. Therefore, there is a need to recover spent palladium, which is driven both by cost and by government regulations requiring residual palladium in APIs to be <5 ppm (1). Thus, much research has been conducted with the aim of heterogenizing active palladium that can then be removed via simple filtration and hopefully reused without significant loss of activity. 

The hydration of propylene with sulfuric acid catalyst in high-temperature water was investigated using a flow reaction system.31 The major product is isopropanol. A biopolymer-metal complex, wool-supported palladium-iron complex (wool-Pd-Fe), has been found to be a highly active catalyst for the hydration of some alkenes to the corresponding alcohols. The yield is greatly affected by the Pd/Fe molar ratio in the wool-Pd-Fe complex catalyst and the catalyst can be reused several times without remarkable change in the catalytic activity.32... 

This allows for easy reuse of the catalyst in the reaction of allylation of secondary amines like piperidine or morpholine for several runs. The leaching of palladium was less than 0.001% of the initial amount. 

Typically, the Pd species for Heck couplings are homogeneous catalysts, stabilized by air-sensitive ligands. They present economic and environmental problems regarding separation, regeneration and reuse. These difficulties can be diminished with heterogeneous catalysts that are more easily recoverable from the reaction mixture. As mentioned in Sect. 2.6, a catalyst consisting of palladium metal deposited on por-... 

New approaches to catalyst recovery and reuse have considered the use of membrane systems permeable to reactants and products but not to catalysts (370). In an attempt to overcome the problem of inaccessibility of certain catalytic sites in supported polymers, some soluble rho-dium(I), platinum(II), and palladium(II) complexes with noncross-linked phosphinated polystyrene have been used for olefin hydrogenation. The catalysts were quantitatively recovered by membrane filtration or by precipitation with hexane, but they were no more active than supported... 

The complete transformation of a racemic mixture into a single enantiomer is one of the challenging goals in asymmetric synthesis. We have developed metal-enzyme combinations for the dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR) of racemic primary amines. This procedure employs a heterogeneous palladium catalyst, Pd/A10(0H), as the racemization catalyst, Candida antarctica lipase B immobilized on acrylic resin (CAL-B) as the resolution catalyst and ethyl acetate or methoxymethylacetate as the acyl donor. Benzylic and aliphatic primary amines and one amino acid amide have been efficiently resolved with good yields (85—99 %) and high optical purities (97—99 %). The racemization catalyst was recyclable and could be reused for the DKR without activity loss at least 10 times. 

Another approach for the chemoselective and asymmetric iodination of unactivated C H bonds was reported with a palladium catalyst using a chiral auxiliary (Scheme 5.19). Excellent diastereoselectivities were induced by chelating the auxiliary to the palladium catalyst center followed by an electrophilic C—H activation and iodination. Studies showed that I2 acts as both the reactant and the activator to form the reactive catalyst precursor, Pd3(OAc)3. After the reaction was completed, the formed Pdl2 was precipitated from the solution and could be reused several times without losing reactivity and selectivity. 

These palladium-functionalized dendrimers show selectivity for the linear reaction product. A drop in activity was found when the catalysts were reused (1-decene as substrate/G(4)Pd(PPh3)2 dendrimer as catalyst 92, 75, 73, and 45% yield for the first, second, third, and fourth, respectively). The (dba)Pd-PPh2-PAMAM-Si02 dendrimers of generations 0—4 showed activity for the oxidation of terminal alkenes under mild conditions. The catalytic activity was found to be dependent on... 

In experiments with a supported palladium catalyst, Pd/C, satisfactory yields were obtained without the use of phosphine ligands for the Heck reactions of aryl iodide with acrylonitrile, styrene, and methyl methacrylate in the ionic liquid [BMIM]PF6 (259). The addition of triethylamine improved the yields. The Pd/C remained in the ionic liquid only. The ionic liquid containing Pd/C can be reused as... 

First, the catalyst is meant to leach out of the capsules into a reaction solution. In this case, the capsules ate not meant to break open but are semipermeable to the catalyst, which diffuses into the reaction mixture over time. This method is t) pically used for metal catalysts or catalyst precursors where the metals leach out and perform the desired reaction. This method is useful because metal-catalyzed reactions typically require lower catalyst loading than organocatalysts (< 1 mol%), and highly loaded capsules can be isolated and reused until exhausted. Such metal catalysts are often touted for their decreased pyrophoricity relative to such catalysts as palladium on carbon (Coleman and Royer 1980 Bremeyer et al. 2002). One could simply use resins, microspheres, or other solid supports as catalyst reservoirs, but capsules are well suited because of their inherently higher surface areas (Royer et al. 1985 Wang et al. 2006). 

Aminocarbonylation provides an efficient method for the synthesis of carboxamides from readily available alkenyl halides. This reaction finds many applications in organic synthesis, especially for the introduction of amides with a variety of A -substituents. For example, steroidal alkenyl iodide 137 was transformed to the corresponding amide derivative 138 in 88% yield through aminocarbonylation (Equation (10)). In this reaction, the palladium catalyst was recovered by using an ionic liquid, l-butyl-3-methylimidazolium salt 139, as reaction media, and reused five times with only a minor loss of activity. ... 

Ionic liquids have been used for the selenium- or palladium-catalyzed carbonylation of primary amines to form carbamates or ureas.After completion of the carbonylation, addition of water induced the precipitation of desired products, which were isolated by fdtration and separated from the ionic liquid, containing the catalytic species. Then, the catalyst could be reused after removal of residual methanol and water by distillation. Although the conversion of the reaction slightly decreased after the second run, the catalytic activity was considerably improved (from 70% to 99 %) by the addition of a small amount of the fresh catalyst. " ... 

The Sonogashira coupling of haloazines can be effected by a series of catalyst systems. Recently a lot effort was devoted to the development of a recyclable catalyst system. Kotschy and co-workers recently reported the use of palladium on charcoal as a convenient palladium source for this process, which allows for the separation and reuse of the catalyst at the end of the reaction (7.35.), The authors also demonstrated that, in spite of the absence of any substantial catalyst leaching, the catalytic activity of the reused Pd/C decreases on each run,49 a surprising phenomenon which was attributed to the dissolution and reprecipitation of the active catalyst in the course of the process. Pd(OH)2 on charcoal exhibited a similar activity in the Sonogashira coupling of bromopyridines.50... 

The palladium catalyst is prepared according to Organic Syntheses, Coll. Vol. 3, 686 (1955). It can be reused for the dehydrogenation of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindazole to indazole. The yield is somewhat better with used catalyst than with fresh catalyst. 

To conclude, palladium on charcoal is only a precursor for soluble palladium species which are active in the carbonylation of allyl ethers. The formation of these species requires the presence of chloride and proceeds jointly with the generation of dimethyl carbonate. This catalyst could be reused but we have been unable so far to recover the ester selectivities achieved with fresh catalysts. The observation of a higher content of oligomeric materials in the reaction mixture resulting from the use of the recovered catalyst led us to suggest that an increase of the surface acidity of the carrier is presumably responsible for this increase in the oligomer content. 

Finally, the use of the expensive metal palladium as the metal of choice in the telomerization reaction holds obvious disadvantages for the economic feasibility of large-scale processes. Catalyst recovery and reuse should therefore receive further attention in future studies, for instance, by clever reactor design, or heteroge-nization of the catalyst. Alternatively, the use of palladium might be completely avoided if non-noble metals can be prompted to perform the same reactions when a suitably designed ligand environment is offered. 

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