Phenyl acetylenes

The mechanism of the reaction la not known with certainty. It is known from studies utilising as tracer that no change in the carbon skeleton occurs during the reaction, and also that unsaturated hydrocarbons can undergo reactions very similar to those of ketones thus both styiene and phenyl-acetylene can react with sulphur and morpholine to produce phenylaceto-thiomorphoUde, hydrolysis of which yields phenylacetic acid ... 

In the polymerization of phenyl acetylene [27] by tungsten and mo]ybdenum hexcarbonyls, high-polymer yields were obtained in CCI4 solvent. The following reaction scheme was proposed, which is different from that reported by Bamford and coworkers [17-20] ... 

Silver fluoborate, reaction with ethyl bromide in ether, 46, 114 Silver nitrate, complexing with phenyl-acetylene, 46, 40 Silver oxide, 46, 83 Silver thiocyanate, 45, 71 Sodium amide, in alkylation of ethyl phenylacetate w ith (2-bromo-ethyl)benzene, 47, 72 in condensation of 2,4-pentanedione and 1 bromobutane to give 2,4-nonanedione, 47, 92 Sodium 2 ammobenzenesulfinate, from reduction of 2 mtrobenzenesul-finic acid, 47, 5... 

Chlor- und Brom-acetylene werden durch Lithiumalanat in der Regelzu Acetyle-nen reduziert. So erhalt man z. B. aus Chlor-phenyl-acetylen in siedendem Diathylather 47% d.Th. Phenyl-acetylen1. 

Perchlor-styrol kann elektrolytisch in Methanol/l,2-Dimethoxy-athan (1 1) zu (Pen-tachlor-phenyl)-acetylen dechloriert werden. Daneben treten, je nach pH und Elektro-denmaterial, verschiedene Nebenprodukte in wechselnden Ausbeuten auf2 ... 

Organo-silane werden durch Elektrolyse an der C-Metall-Bindung gespalten. So erhalt man z. B. aus Trimethyl-phenylathinyl-silan in Methylamin/Lithiumchlorid (s. a. S. 577) an Platin-Elektroden Phenyl-acetylen (38% d.Th.). Als Nebenprodukte fallen infolge Hydrierung Trimethyl-(2-phenyl-athyl)-silan (10% d.Th.) und A thy T benzol (30% d.Th.)... 

The selectivity is 100% in this simple example, but do not believe it. Many things happen at 625°C, and the actual effluent contains substantial amounts of carbon dioxide, benzene, toluene, methane, and ethylene in addition to styrene, ethylbenzene, and hydrogen. It contains small but troublesome amounts of diethyl benzene, divinyl benzene, and phenyl acetylene. The actual selectivity is about 90%. A good kinetic model would account for aU the important by-products and would even reflect the age of the catalyst. A good reactor model would, at a minimum, include the temperature change due to reaction. 

The stereochemistry of the addition of phosphorus pentachloride to isolated acetylenes in non-polar solvents has been shown by n.m.r. to be CIS, as illustrated for the adduct (46) from propyne. This observation has been explained in terms of a four-centre process. Contrary to a previous report, the reaction of triphenylphosphine hydrobromide with phenyl-acetylene carboxylic acid (47) yields both the trans- and the known c/5-adducts. 

A much faster reaction for bromides than chlorides usually suggests attack on halogen, since bromine is more readily attacked by nucleophilic phosphorus. However, for phenyl acetylenes (82 = Ph) these rates... 

Simpson and Burt have studied the same reactions in the presence of various amounts of ethanol and have plotted graphs of phosphonate (81 R = Ph) and phenyl acetylene produced against moles of alcohol added. Acetylene in the product reached a maximum (around 60%) when two moles of ethanol were added and stayed fairly constant beyond this, which suggests that the attack-on-halogen contribution to the mechanism is approximately 60%. The rest of the reaction presumably follows some other mechanism and the authors suggest the addition-elimination route (79) in view of the isolation of the phosphonate (83) from the reaction of tri(isopropyl) phosphite with the bromoacetylene (84). 

The palladium-catalyzed addition of Se-Si ( silylselenatiori) and Se-Ge bonds to phenyl acetylene was also reported to provide cis-adducts 112 in 25% and 35% yields, respectively (Eq. 7.65) [65]. 

In a manner similar to OsH(OH)(CO)(P Pr3)2, the hydride-metallothiol complex OsH(SH)(CO)(P Pr3)2 adds Lewis bases that are not bulky such as CO and P(OMe)3 to give the corresponding six-coordinate hydride-metallothiol derivatives OsH(SH)(CO)L(P Pr3)2 (L = CO, P(OMe)3). OsH(OH)(CO)(PiPr3)2 and OsH(SH)(CO)(P Pr3 also show a similar behavior toward dimethyl acetylenedi-carboxylate. Treatment of OsH(SH)(CO)(P Pr3)2 with this alkyne affords 6sH SC(C02Me)CHC(OMe)6 (CO)P Pr3)2, which is the result of the tram addition of the S—H bond to the carbon-carbon triple bond of the alkyne. Phenyl-acetylene, in contrast to dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, reacts with OsH(SH) (CO)(P Pr3)2 by insertion of the carbon-carbon triple bond into the Os—H bond to give the unsaturated alkenyl-metallothiol derivative Os ( )-CH=CHPh (SH) (CO)(P Pr3 )2, the inorganic counterpart of the organic a, (3-unsaturated mercaptans (Scheme 46).92... 

The homoleptic tris[bis(trimethylsilyl)amido]zincate [Na(12-crown-4)2] [Zn N(SiMe3)2 3] reacted with phenyl-acetylene (Scheme 49) to yield [Na(12-crown-4)2]2 [Zn(CGPh)3(THF)][Zn(CGPh)3] 62.118... 

Scheme 3.13 Proposed mechanism for the hydrogenation of phenyl acetylene catalyzed by OsHCI(CO)(P Pr3)2 [115].

In less-coordinating solvents such as dichloromethane or benzene, most of the cationic rhodium catalysts [Rh(nbd)(PR3)n]+A (19) are less effective as alkyne hydrogenation catalysts [21, 27]. However, in such solvents, a few related cationic and neutral rhodium complexes can efficiently hydrogenate 1-alkynes to the corresponding alkene [27-29]. A kinetic study revealed that a different mechanism operates in dichloromethane, since the rate law for the hydrogenation of phenyl acetylene by [Rh(nbd)(PPh3)2]+BF4 is given by r=k[catalyst][alkyne][pH2]2 [29]. 

The iridium complex [Ir(cod)(//2-,PrPCH2CH2OMe)]+BF4 (22) in dichloro-methane at 25 °C at 1 bar H2 is a particularly active catalyst for the hydrogenation of phenyl acetylene to styrene [29]. In a typical experiment, an average TOF of 50 mol mol-1 h-1 was obtained (calculated from a turnover number, TON, of 125) with a selectivity close to 100%. The mechanism of this reaction has been elucidated by a combination of kinetic, chemical and spectroscopic data (Scheme 14.10). 

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