Phosphines high-activity ligands

Conventional triorganophosphite ligands, such as triphenylphosphite, form highly active hydroformylation catalysts (95—99) however, they suffer from poor durabiUty because of decomposition. Diorganophosphite-modified rhodium catalysts (94,100,101), have overcome this stabiUty deficiency and provide a low pressure, rhodium catalyzed process for the hydroformylation of low reactivity olefins, thus making lower cost amyl alcohols from butenes readily accessible. The new diorganophosphite-modified rhodium catalysts increase hydroformylation rates by more than 100 times and provide selectivities not available with standard phosphine catalysts. For example, hydroformylation of 2-butene with l,l -biphenyl-2,2 -diyl... 

Beller and coworkers found in 2009 that alkynes react with amines under the CO pressure (20 bar) in the presence of catalytic amounts of [Fe3(CO)i2] to the corresponding succinimide in moderate to excellent yields (Scheme 35) [110]. Various terminal and internal alkynes and ammonia or primary amines are adaptable for this transformation. Furthermore, [Fe(CO)s] as an iron source showed high activity. The catalytic activity, however, decreased considerably when a phosphine ligand such as PPh3 and ( Bu)2P("Bu) was employed. 

Sterically demanding, water-soluble alkylphosphines 6.10 and 6.11 as ligands have been found to have a high activity for the Suzuki coupling of aryl bromides in aqueous solvents (Eq. 6.35).115 Turnover numbers up to 734,000 mmol/mmol Pd have been achieved under such conditions. Glucosamine-based phosphines were found to be efficient ligands for Suzuki cross-coupling reactions in water.116... 

Recently, Suzuki-type reactions in air and water have also been studied, first by Li and co-workers.117 They found that the Suzuki reaction proceeded smoothly in water under an atmosphere of air with either Pd(OAc)2 or Pd/C as catalyst (Eq. 6.36). Interestingly, the presence of phosphine ligands prevented the reaction. Subsequently, Suzuki-type reactions in air and water have been investigated under a variety of systems. These include the use of oxime-derived palladacycles118 and tuned catalysts (TunaCat).119 A preformed oxime-carbapalladacycle complex covalently anchored onto mercaptopropyl-modified silica is highly active (>99%) for the Suzuki reaction of p-chloroacetophenone and phenylboronic acid in water no leaching occurs and the same catalyst sample can be reused eight times without decreased activity.120... 

Buchwald and co-workers have developed highly active catalysts consisting of bulky, electron-rich phosphine ligands with a biphenyl backbone combined with Pd(OAc)2 for the arylation of ketones or nitroalkanes (Eq. 5.72).115... 

They constitute the first rhodium phosphine modified catalysts for such a selective linear hydroformylation of internal alkenes. The extraordinary high activity of 32 even places it among the most active diphosphines known. Since large steric differences in the catalyst complexes of these two ligands are not anticipated, the higher activity of 32 compared to 31 might be ascribed to very subtle bite angle effects or electronic characteristics of the phosphorus heterocycles. 

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