Polymer-supported amine catalysts

Several polymer-supported amine catalysts were reported for continuous-flow reactions [151]. Ley and coworkers achieved a continuous-flow synthesis of 4,5-disubstituted oxazoles [152]. Their flow system consisted of two microreactors and one scavenger column, as shown in Scheme 7.41. Isocyanine and add chloride were mixed on a glass-tip microreactor to give a reactive intermediate. Progressing this combined reaction stream through a packed column of polymer-supported phos-phazene base (57) (PS-BEMP) facilitated an intramolecular cyclization yielding the... 

The catalysts were conditioned in a 1-cyanooctane/aqueous NaCN mixture for 24 h at room temperature to avoid the induction period of the reaction. Rates (converted from a weight basis to a molar basis) with catalysts 47-49 significantly decreased as the % RS increased over the range 5 % to 50 %. With equal loadings activities of the polymer-supported amine oxides decreased with decreased lipophilicity of the catalysts (49 > 48 > 47). Lipophilic character appears to be an important factor for activity of polymer-supported cosolvents. 

A partially soluble polyallylscandium triflamide ditriflate 45 was prepared and used to catalyze a three-component coupling reaction.67 An aldehyde, an aromatic amine, and an alkene were mixed in the presence of the catalyst to afford tetrahydroquinolines (equation 17). The catalyst was recovered from the reaction mixtures by precipitation with hexane and could be recycled without loss of activity. Another polymer-supported scandium catalyst was prepared by treating Nafion with scandium chloride to afford the Nafion-scandium catalyst 46.68 This catalyst was used in allylation reactions of carbonyl compounds by tetraallyltin (equation 18). It could be easily recovered by filtration and reused without appreciable loss of activity. 

Studies on the immobilization of Pt-based hydrosilylation catalysts have resulted in the development of polymer-supported Pt catalysts that exhibit high hydrosilylation and low isomerization activity, high selectivity, and stability in solventless alkene hydrosilylation at room temperature.627 Results with Rh(I) and Pt(II) complexes supported on polyamides628 and Mn-based carbonyl complexes immobilized on aminated poly(siloxane) have also been published.629 A supported Pt-Pd bimetallic colloid containing Pd as the core metal with Pt on the surface showed a remarkable shift in activity in the hydrosilylation of 1-octene.630... 

TMSCN, TEA, 91-100% yield. K2CO3 has also been used effectively as a base. A polymer-supported amine is also an effective catalyst. ... 

The utility of polymer-supported superbase catalysts has been established in the Michael-type conjugate addition using hetero-atom nucleophiles such as amines and thiols [34,37,41]. For example, a variety of primary/secondary/aliphatic/aromatic amines and aliphatic/aromatic thiols could smoothly react with activated olefins in the presence of 10mol% of a nitrate salt of PS-PAPT or PS-N3PAPT [34] (Scheme 6.10). 

Based on Mannich-type reactions of N-acryliminoacetates with silyl enol ethers, a new method for the preparation of N-acylated amino acid derivatives via nucleophilic addition to N-acrylimino ester has been developed using a polymer-supported amine and scandium catalysts (Scheme 12.5) [9]. Ethyl N-benzoyl-2-bromoglycine was used as a substrate. It could be readily converted to reactive N-acrylimino ester in situ by treatment with a base. Immobilizations of the amine and the scandium species into polymeric supports prevented loss of activity of the catalyst. The method is simple and provides a convenient method for the preparation of N-acrylated amino acid derivatives. 

The N-substituted aminoacids required could be prepared by microwave-assisted reductive amination of aminoacid methyl esters with aldehydes, and although in the Westman report soluble NaBH(OAc)3 was used to perform this step, other reports have shown how this transformation can be performed in using polymer-supported borohydrides (such as polymer-supported cyanoborohydride) under microwave irradiation [90]. An additional point of diversity could be inserted by use of a palladium-catalyzed reaction if suitably substituted aldehydes had been used. Again, these transformations might eventually be accomplished using supported palladium catalysts under microwave irradiation, as reported by several groups [91-93]. 

The most spectacular results, in terms of comparison between CFPs- and carbon-supported metal catalysts, were likely provided by Toshima and co-workers [33,34]. As illustrated in Section 3.3.3, they were able to produce platinum and rhodium catalysts by the covalent immobilization of pre-formed, stabilized metal nanoclusters into an amine functionalized acrylamide gel (Scheme 5). To this purpose, the metal nanopartides were stabilized by a linear co-polymer of MMA and VPYR. The reaction between its ester functions and the amine groups of the gel produced the covalent link between the support and the... 

Buchwald has shown that, in combination with palladium(II) acetate or Pd2(dba)3 [tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium], the Merrifield resin-bound electron-rich dialkylphosphinobiphenyl ligand (45) (Scheme 4.29) forms the active polymer-supported catalysts for amination and Suzuki reactions [121]. Inactivated aryl iodides, bromides, or even chlorides can be employed as substrates in these reactions. The catalyst derived from ligand (45) and a palladium source can be recycled for both amination and Suzuki reactions without addition of palladium. 

Ishikawa and co-workers also reported a class of structurally modified guanidines for promotion of the asymmetric Michael reaction of ierf-butyl-diphenylimino-acetate to ethyl acrylate [124,125]. In addition to a polymer support design (Scheme 69), an optical resolution was developed to achieve chiral 1,2-substituted ethylene-l,2-di-amines, a new chiral framework for guanidine catalysis. The authors discovered that incorporating steric bulk and aryl substituents in the catalyst did improve stereoselec-tivitity, although the reactivity did suffer (Scheme 70, Table 4). 

Aiming at easier workup conditions, immobilization of several transition metal catalysts, which show activity for the epoxidation of allylic alcohols, on polymer support has been investigated. For example, Suzuki and coworkers incorporated an oxo-vanadium ion into cross-linked polystyrene resins functionalized with iminodiacetic acid or diethylenetri-amine derivatives (Scheme 57), which afforded a heterogeneous catalyst that can promote... 

Dispersed phase polymerisation of HIPEs has also been used to prepare polymer-supported quaternary onium phase transfer catalysts [162]. One strategy involved the polymerisation of a concentrated emulsion of vinyl benzyl chloride (VBC) in water and subsequent quaternisation of the polymer resin with tertiary amines and phosphines (Fig. 22). 

Rhodium(II) acetate catalyzes C—H insertion, olefin addition, heteroatom-H insertion, and ylide formation of a-diazocarbonyls via a rhodium carbenoid species (144—147). Intramolecular cyclopentane formation via C—H insertion occurs with retention of stereochemistry (143). Chiral rhodium (TT) carboxamides catalyze enantioselective cyclopropanation and intramolecular C—N insertions of CC-diazoketones (148). Other reactions catalyzed by rhodium complexes include double-bond migration (140), hydrogenation of aromatic aldehydes and ketones to hydrocarbons (150), homologation of esters (151), carbonylation of formaldehyde (152) and amines (140), reductive carbonylation of dimethyl ether or methyl acetate to 1,1-diacetoxy ethane (153), decarbonylation of aldehydes (140), water gas shift reaction (69,154), C—C skeletal rearrangements (132,140), oxidation of olefins to ketones (155) and aldehydes (156), and oxidation of substituted anthracenes to anthraquinones (157). Rhodium-catalyzed hydrosilation of olefins, alkynes, carbonyls, alcohols, and imines is facile and may also be accomplished enantioselectively (140). Rhodium complexes are moderately active alkene and alkyne polymerization catalysts (140). In some cases polymer-supported versions of homogeneous rhodium catalysts have improved activity, compared to their homogenous counterparts. This is the case for the conversion of alkenes direcdy to alcohols under oxo conditions by rhodium—amine polymer catalysts... 

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