Phosphine oxides, promoter

Representative Procedure for lodotrimethylsilane and Phosphine Oxide Promoted Clycosylation with Glycosyl Acetate Donors [297]... 

Other companies (e.g., Hoechst) have developed a slightly different process in which the water content is low in order to save CO feedstock. In the absence of water it turned out that the catalyst precipitates. Clearly, at low water concentrations the reduction of rhodium(III) back to rhodium(I) is much slower, but the formation of the trivalent rhodium species is reduced in the first place, because the HI content decreases with the water concentration. The water content is kept low by adding part of the methanol in the form of methyl acetate. Indeed, the shift reaction is now suppressed. Stabilization of the rhodium species and lowering of the HI content can be achieved by the addition of iodide salts. High reaction rates and low catalyst usage can be achieved at low reactor water concentration by the introduction of tertiary phosphine oxide additives.8 The kinetics of the title reaction with respect to [MeOH] change if H20 is used as a solvent instead of AcOH.9 Kinetic data for the Rh-catalyzed carbonylation of methanol have been critically analyzed. The discrepancy between the reaction rate constants is due to ignoring the effect of vapor-liquid equilibrium of the iodide promoter.10... 

Many other modifications, particularly of the Rh and Mel catalysed carbonylation of MeOH, have been proposed and some of these have been operated commercially or may have been tested at significant pilot plant scale. These include, for example, the use of phosphine oxide species such as PPh30 [20] as promoters and systems involving immobilizing the Rh on ion exchange resins [21]. Numerous examples of ligand modified catalysts have been described, particularly for Rh, though relatively few complexes have been shown to have any extended lifetime at typical process conditions and none are reported in commercial use [22, 23]. The carbonyl iodides of Ru and Os mentioned above in the context of the Cativa process are also promoters for Rh catalysed carbonylation of MeOH to AcOH [24]. 

In contrast, phosphine oxides were later applied in Michael additions of silyl ketene acetals to cycHc and acychc a,P-unsaturated ketones promoted by 59a as scavengers of any catalytically active Me3Si species formed during the reaction (Scheme 5.80) [151]. Further, this methodology now allows the realization of an... 

Mechanisms for both reactions are proposed, which are supported by the identification of several intermediate reactions. The role of various organic and inorganic reaction promoters is discussed. Amongst these, phosphine oxides are exceptionally efficient in that they induce high reaction rates combined with high selectivities. Reactions a) and b) potentially allow two-step, methanol/ /synthesis gas-based routes to ethyl acetate and proprio-nic acid, respectively. 

The activity of the Rh-catalysts is strongly promoted by phosphine oxides, which phenomenon is attributed to the generation of anionic Rh species which are responsible for the hydrocarbonylation of the ester, yielding 1,1-diesters as intermediates. Hydrogenolysis of these intermediates is catalyzed by the Ru species under mild conditions and may proceed with high selectivity. This compares very favourably with Co- or Ru-catalyzed homologation, which requires direct hydrogenation of intermediate acyl complexes and calls for severe reaction conditions. 

Iodide-promoted reactions in phosphine oxide solvents have been observed under some conditions to produce ethanol from H2/CO with good rates and high selectivities (193-195) (Table XVI, Expts. 1-3). Experimental evidence suggests that the ethanol is a secondary product, although its selectivity is high even after very short reaction times (193). An acid component is believed to be involved in alcohol homologation by this system, which will be described in more detail below. 

Phosphine oxides are also solvents whose basic properties may be involved in catalytic reactions. Addition of HI or I2 to Ru3(CO)12 in phosphine oxide solvents gives catalyst solutions active for CO hydrogenation, but with remarkable selectivity and activity for ethanol production (193). Tri- -propylphosphine oxide [p BH —0.5 (45)] is a sufficiently strong base to promote the reduction of Ru3(CO)l2 under H2/CO according to the following reaction ... 

In the BASF process the 1,2-diacetate is the substrate for the hydroformylation step. It can be prepared either directly via oxidative acetoxylation of butadiene using a selenium catalyst or via PtCl4-catalyzed isomerization of the 1,4-diacetate (see above). The latter reaction affords the 1,2-diacetate in 95% yield. The hydroformylation step is carried out with a rhodium catalyst without phosphine ligands since the branched aldehyde is the desired product (phosphine ligands promote the formation of linear aldehydes). Relatively high pressures and temperatures are used and the desired branched aldehyde predominates. The product mixture is then treated with sodium acetate in acetic acid to effect selective elimination of acetic acid from the branched aldehyde, giving the desired C5 aldehyde. 

This product must be purified from phosphorus before it can be used as an adhesion promoter for electronic devices. This is done by oxidising the phosphine to phosphine oxide with hydrogen peroxide or organic peroxides and by separating the products chromatographically. 

Water can be used as the solvent in the presence of added surfactants. Reactions in ionic liquids and supercritical fluids are also feasible. A variety of reagents promote cychzation, which can be achieved at room temperature. Examples of compounds that promote and accelerate the reaction include A-methyhnorphohne A-oxide, trimethylamine A-oxide, phosphine oxides, dimethylsulfoxide, alkyl methyl snlfides, molecular sieves, and lithium perchlorate. A comparison of a few promoters is seen in Scheme 246. Promoters... 

Molecular oxygen has become a commonly used co-catalyst for inactive or weakly active transition metal complexes [1-5]. In addition, other oxidizing agents, mainly peroxides, have recently been used in active rhodium complexes in particular, but also in metal carbonyls, as catalysts for hydrosilylation. The catalytic activity of bis(triphenylphosphine)carbonylrhodium(I) in the hydrosilylation of C=C and C=0 bonds can be much increased by the addition of about a 50 % molar excess of tert-butyl hydroperoxide [100]. Chromium triad carbonyls M(CO)e, where M = Cr, Mo, W, have been tested to examine the effect of various organic peroxides on the hydrosilylation of 2,3-dimethyl-1,3-butadiene by triethyl-, triethoxy- and methyldiethoxysilanes [100]. The evidence for organic oxidant promotion of RhCl(cod)phosphine-catalyzed hydrosilylation of 1-hexene was demonstrated previously [101]. 

Mukaiyama, T., Kobashi, Y. Highly a-selective synthesis of disaccharide using glycosyl bromide by the promotion of phosphine oxide. 

Treatment of the phosphino-iminium salts (169) with potassium hydroxide in THF affords the formylphosphines (170), which are remarkably stable in solution compared with the related phosphine oxides Phosphines bearing aminoyl radical substituents, e.g. (171), have also been prepared. The phospha[3]triangulane, (172), has been obtained from the reaction of bicyclo-propylidene with a metal complexed phenylphosphinidene. " The phosphino-trithiacyclophane (173) has been prepared by the base-promoted reaction of... 

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