2- pyridine, reaction complexes

Evans et al. reported that the his(oxazolinyl)pyridine (pybox) complex of copper(II) 17 is a selective catalyst of Diels-Alder reactions between a-bromoacrolein or methacrolein and cydopentadiene affording the adducts in high enantioselectivity [23] (Scheme 1.30). Selection of the counter-ion is important to achieve a satisfactory reaction rate and enantioselectivity, and [Cu(pyhox)](ShFg)2 gave the best result. This catalyst is also effective for the Diels-Alder reaction of acrylate dieno-philes (vide infra). 

Evans s bis(oxazolinyl)pyridine (pybox) complex 17, which is effective for the Diels-Alder reaction of a-bromoacrolein and methacrolein (Section 2.1), is also a suitable catalyst for the Diels-Alder reaction of acrylate dienophiles [23] (Scheme 1.33). In the presence of 5 mol% of the Cu((l )-pybox)(SbF5)2 catalyst with a benzyl substituent, tert-butyl acrylate reacts with cyclopentadiene to give the adduct in good optical purity (92% ee). Methyl acrylate and phenyl acrylate underwent cycloadditions with lower selectivities. 

In 1997 the application of two different chiral ytterbium catalysts, 55 and 56 for the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction was reported almost simultaneously by two independent research groups [82, 83], In both works it was observed that the achiral Yb(OTf)3 and Sc(OTf)3 salts catalyze the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between nitrones 1 and alkenoyloxazolidinones 19 with endo selectivity. In the first study 20 mol% of the Yb(OTf)2-pyridine-bisoxazoline complex 55 was applied as the catalyst for reactions of a number of derivatives of 1 and 19. The reactions led to endo-selective 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions giving products with enantioselectivities of up to 73% ee (Scheme 6.38) [82]. In the other report Kobayashi et al. described a... 

A disaccharide is added to a pyridine SO3 complex solution, which is prepared by reacting 5 to 6 times the molar amount of liquid SO3 as much as that of disaccharide with 5 to 10 times the amount of pyridine as that of the disaccharide at 0°C to 5°C, for sulfation at 50°C to 70°C for 3 to 7 hours. After the completion of sulfation, the greater part of pyridine Is removed by decantation. The obtained solution exhibits an acidity that is so strong that it is improper to apply the reaction with aluminum ion and, therefore, sodium hydroxide is added for neutralization. After the remaining pyridine is removed by concentration, 100 unit volumes of water per unit volume of the residue is added thereto. To the solution is then added aluminum ion solution mainly containing aluminum dihydroxychloride, the pH of which is 1.0 to 1.2, in such an amount that the aluminum ion Is present in an amount of 4 to 6 molar parts of the amount of disaccharide to provide a pH of 4 to 4.5. The mixture is reacted under stirring at room temperature and the formed disaccharide poly sulfate-aluminum compound is allowed to precipitate. After filtration, the residue is washed with water and dried. 

Bis(imino)pyridine iron complex 5 as a highly efficient catalyst for a hydrogenation reaction was synthesized by Chirik and coworkers in 2004 [27]. Complex 5 looks like a Fe(0) complex, but detailed investigations into the electronic structure of 5 by metrical data, Mossbauer parameters, infrared and NMR spectroscopy, and DFT calculations established the Fe(ll) complex described as 5 in Fig. 2 to be the higher populated species [28]. 

Bis(imino)pyridine iron complex 5 acts as a catalyst not only for hydrogenation (see 2.1) but also for hydrosilylation of multiple bonds [27]. The results are summarized in Table 10. The reaction rate for hydrosilylations is slower than that for the corresponding hydrogenation however, the trend of reaction rates is similar in each reaction. In case of tra s-2-hexene, the terminal addition product hexyl (phenyl)silane was obtained predominantly. This result clearly shows that an isomerization reaction takes place and the subsequent hydrosilylation reaction dehvers the corresponding product. Reaction of 1-hexene with H2SiPh2 also produced the hydrosilylated product in this system (eq. 1 in Scheme 18). However, the reaction rate for H2SiPh2 was slower than that for H3SiPh. In addition, reaction of diphenylacetylene as an atkyne with phenylsilane afforded the monoaddition product due to steric repulsion (eq. 2 in Scheme 18). 

The comparison of a bis(imino)pyridine iron complex and a pyridine bis (oxazoline) iron complex in hydrosilylation reactions is shown in Scheme 24 [73]. Both iron complexes showed efficient activity at 23°C and low to modest enantioselectivites. However, the steric hindered acetophenone derivatives such as 2, 4, 6 -trimethylacetophenone and 4 -ferf-butyl-2, 6 -dimethylacetophenone reacted sluggishly. The yields and enantioselectivities increased slightly when a combination of iron catalyst and B(CeF5)3 as an additive was used. 

As an alternative method for the C-C bond formation, oligomerization and polymerization reactions of olefins catalyzed by a bis(imino)pyridine iron complex are also well known (Scheme 40) [121-124]. 

A head-to-head dimerization of a-olefin catalyzed by a bis(imino)pyridine iron complex has been reported by Small and Marcucci [126]. This reaction delivers linear internal olefins (up to 80% linearity) from a-oleftns. The linearity of products, however, depends on the catalyst structure and the reaction conditions. 

In contrast with former opinions about the reaction mechanism in KF titration, more recent investigations by Verhoef and co-workers146 have shown that neither S02 nor a pyridine-S02 complex is oxidized by iodine in the presence of water, but the monosulphite ion ... 

In our hands, this gave as principal product on reaction with pyridine the complex [PtCl2(py) CHD=C(Me)CDMe2 ] and not the product shown in equation (3). This reaction is complicated by a side reaction apparently involving 8-elimination from one of the methyl substituents, but an analysis similar to that described above by H, 13C 1H and 2H 1H NMR spectroscopy showed that the major product was formed by the a-elimination pathway (15). 

The oxidation of butanone-2, catalyzed by complexes of pyridine with cupric salts, appeared to be similar in its main features [191]. Butanone-2 catalytically oxidizes to acetic acid and acetaldehyde. The reaction proceeds through the enolization of ketone. Pyridine catalyzes the enolization of ketone. Enole is oxidized by complexes of Cu(II) with pyridine. The complexes Cu(II).Py with n = 2,3 are the most reactive. Similar results were provided by the study of butanone-2 catalytic oxidation with o-phenanthroline complexes, where Fe(III) and Mn(II) were used as catalysts [192-194],... 

The benzyl ligand of benzylbis(dimethylglyoximato)pyridine cobalt complex has been selectively converted to 3,5-dibenzyl-l,2,4-oxadiazole by a reaction with alkyl nitrite in the presence of light (426). The reaction proceeds by the in situ formation of an oxime and a nitrile oxide (Scheme 1.44). 

Subsequent kinetic and product distribution data on the reactions of 1,3-butadiene with molecular bromine, pyridine-bromine complex and tetra-n-butylammonium tribromide in chlorinated solvents have shown that pyridine-Br2 and tribromide ion act as independent electrophiles, rather than as sources of molecular bromine75. 

Reaction of the m-nitrophenyl ester of pyridine-2,5-dicarboxylic acid with cyclodextrin (see Section 3) gives a picolinate ester [52] of a cyclodextrin secondary hydroxyl group (Breslow, 1971 Breslow and Overman, 1970) which will bind metal ions or a metal ion-pyridine carboxaldoxime complex. Such a complex will catalyse hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl acetate bound within the cyclodextrin cavity leading to a rate constant approximately 2000-fold greater at... 

Reactions of c -[Ru(bpy)2Cl2] with ligands (86) or (87) (X = CH2) in EtOH(aq) lead to [Ru(bpy)2(86)] + and [Ru(bpy)2(87, X = CH2)] respectively. When X = 0 in ligand (87), the product is the pyridine carboxylate complex [Ru(bpy)2(pyC02)], the structure of which is confirmed by X-ray crystallography. Complexes of the type [Ru(bpy)2L] " in which L represents a series of mono- and dihydrazones have been prepared and characterized by spectroscopic methods (including variable temperature H NMR) and a structure determination for L = biacetyl di(phenylhydrazone). When L is 2-acetylpyridine hydrazone or 2-acetylpyridine phenylhydrazone, [Ru(bpy)2L] + shows an emission, but none is observed for the dihydrazone complexes. The pyrazoline complex [Ru(bpy)2L] (L = 5-(4-nitrophenyl)-l-phenyl-3-(2-pyridyl)-2-pyrazoline) can be isolated in two diastereoisomeric forms. At 298 K, these exhibit similar MLCT absorptions, but at 77 K, their emission maxima and lifetimes are significantly different. ... 

Some important reactions of chromium hexacarbonyl involve partial or total replacements of CO ligands by organic moieties. For example, with pyridine (py) and other organic bases, in the presence of UV hght or heat, it forms various pyridine-carbonyl complexes, such as (py)Cr(CO)5, (py)2Cr(CO)4, (py)3Cr(CO)3, etc. With aromatics (ar), it forms complexes of the type, (ar)Cr(CO)3. Reaction with potassium iodide in diglyme produces a potassium diglyme salt of chromium tetracarbonyl iodide anion. The probable structure of this salt is [K(diglyme)3][Cr(CO)4lj. 

Polymerization proceeded about 5 times faster in an alkaline solution, and the side reaction that forms biphenoquinone was suppressed151. The acceleration effect is due to the acid dissociation of XOH by alkali, but the monomeric pyridine-Cu complex was hydrolyzed at the same time, therefore the acceleration was not observed in the pyridine-Cu system. The PVP-Cu complex is relatively stable toward alkali due to its chelate structure thus, the PVP-Cu catalyst was active during the polymerization even in an alkaline solution. 

Transfer of an electron from a photoexcited donor to an acceptor has also been studied. Ballard and Mauzerall [219] photoexcited zinc octaethylporphyrin and found both the triplet—triplet rate coefficient and ion yields indicate a reaction radius of 2.0 0.1 nm, some 0.6 nm larger than twice the radius of this metal ligand. However, electron transfer from pyridine—ruthenium complexes does not appear to be facilitated by electron tunnelling (see Chap. 3, Sect. 2.1). 

Recently, Chirik s group reported an iron-catalyzed [2 + 2]-cycloaddition process with a,co-dienes (Scheme 9.23) [50]. The tridentate pyridine-diimine complex 31 gave excellent conversions with a short reaction time (TOF>240h-1) and a broad substrate scope is accepted by the catalyst. Esters, amides, amines and even 1,6-heptadiene can be used as substrates without requiring the Thorpe-Ingold effect. 

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