Rate of olefin insertion

Described in this paper is a model system - one in which well-characterized lanthanide complexes exhibit high catalyst activities for ethylene polymerization but where the corresponding oligomerization of propene is sufficiently slowed so that stepwise insertion of the olefin can be studied quantitatively and all important intermediates observed or isolated. Emphasized in this paper is the effect of added Lewis acids and bases on the rate of olefin insertions, and comparison between ethylene and propene reactions. The catalysts, of general structure M(ri -Cp )2CH3 L (M = Yb, Lu ... 

Another crucial step for asymmetric induction is the formation of alkyl-M complex 20 i.e., the rate of olefin insertion to the M-H bond should be different in each 7r-olefin-M complex 19 and this difference should be reflected in the final ratio of two enantiomeric aldehydes.This possibility should be examined in the future. 

There is a lack of kinetic data for many of these reactions. However, the productivities of these systems (turnovers of substrate per mole of catalyst per hour/initial substrate concentration) can be used to establish the lower limits for the rates of olefin insertion. 

The rate of olefin insertion can be greatly increased if temperatures up to 160° are used, together with short contact times. When carried out in such a way as to produce an average chain length of about Ci4, this is the basis of a very important industrial process since oxidation of the product by molecular oxygen gives alcohols ... 

A further requirement for the high selectivity to maleic anhydride from n-butane is the need for a correct sequence of oxidehydrogenation and oxygen insertion reactions. In the oxidation of n-butane the olefinic-like intermediate must be quickly oxidehydrogenated to an adsorbed dienic-like compound in order to favour the selective pathway towards maleic anhydride. In fact, this reaction may occur concurrently with the oxidation of allylic carbon atoms, with formation of aldehydes and acids which can also be precursors of carbon oxides. Thus, the selectivity to maleic anhydride depends on the relative rates of hydrogen abstraction and oxygen insertion. This property can be considered as typical of the vanadyl pyrophosphate for instance, in the case of the V/Mo/0 system the rate of oxygen insertion... 

CEF - comonomer effect, Rcop - rate of ethene insertion in ethene/a-olefin copolymerization Rpol -rate of ethene homopolymerization... 

Hanley PS, Hartwig JF (2011) Intermolecular migratory insertion of imactivated olefins into palladium-nitrogen bonds. Steric and electronic effects on the rate of migratory insertion. J Am Chem Soc 133(39) 15661-15673... 

The general catalytic cycle for the coupling of aryl-alkenyl halides with alkenes is shown in Fig. 9.6. The first step in this catalytic cycle is the oxidative addition of aryl-alkenyl halides to Pd(0). The activity of the aryl-alkenyl halides still follows the order RI > ROTf > RBr > RC1. The olefin coordinates to the Pd(II) species. The coordinated olefin inserts into Pd—R bond in a syn fashion, p-Hydrogen elimination can occur only after an internal rotation around the former double bond, as it requires at least one /I-hydrogen to be oriented syn perpendicular with respect to the halopalladium residue. The subsequent syn elimination yields an alkene and a hydridopalladium halide. This process is, however, reversible, and therefore, the thermodynamically more stable (E)-alkene is generally obtained. Reductive elimination of HX from the hydridopalladium halide in the presence of a base regenerates the catalytically active Pd(0), which can reenter the catalytic cycle. The oxidative addition has frequently assumed to be the rate-determining step. 

The nature and distribution of the products of an olefin oligomerization reaction will depend, inter alia, on the relative rate constants of the insertion step (ki)vs. the displacement step (fcd) [Eq. (11)] ... 

The rate also varies with butadiene concentration. However, the order of the rate dependence on butadiene concentration is temperature-de-pendent, i.e., a fractional order (0.34) at 30°C and first-order at 50°C (Tables II and III). Cramer s (4, 7) explanation for this temperature effect on the kinetics is that, at 50°C, the insertion reaction to form 4 from 3, although still slow, is no longer rate-determining. Rather, the rate-determining step is the conversion of the hexyl species in 4 into 1,4-hexadiene or the release of hexadiene from the catalyst complex. This interaction involves a hydride transfer from the hexyl ligand to a coordinated butadiene. This transfer should be fast, as indicated by some earlier studies of Rh-catalyzed olefin isomerization reactions (8). The slow release of the hexadiene is therefore attributed to the low concentration of butadiene. Thus, Scheme 2 can be expanded to include complex 6, as shown in Scheme 3. The rate of release of hexadiene depends on the concentra-... 

The hydrogens within the octahedral olefin-dihydride intermediate are transferred consecutively with overall cis addition, and the rate-determining step (k9) is olefin insertion to give the alkyl- hydride. Kinetic and thermodynamic parameters for nearly all the steps of Fig. 1 have been estimated for the cyclohexene system. Because the insertion reaction is generally believed to require a cis disposition of the hydride and olefin... 

While the transmetalation step is often the rate-determining step for Pd-catalyzed reactions with organometallics, the oxidative addition step is often the rate-determining step in the Heck reactions, although olefin insertion can be rate-limiting in some cases — this is why the Heck reactions of tri- and tetra-substituted olefins sometimes proceed slower than those of di-substituted and terminal olefins. 

Initially, one carbon atom (a methyl group) is attached to the metal of the catalyst (A in Figure 1). In the first step, it will capture and insert a propylene molecule via either 1,2- or 2,1-insertion route. Thus, one of these insertion events is stochastically chosen this choice, however, is not totally random but weighted by the probabilities of the two reactions. Here the relative probabilities are proportional to the relative rates. Now, if one assumes that the 1,2-insertion has happened in the first step, i.e. the iso-butyl group is attached to the catalyst (B) after insertion. At this stage four different elementary events are possible two alternative insertion routes (1,2- and 2,1-) proceeded by the capture of olefin, the termination reaction,... 

Effects of GO and H2 partial pressures on the reaction rate and selectivity of asymmetric hydroformylation of 1-hexene and styrene are examined using (7 ,A)-BINAPHOS-Rh catalyst system. For both substrates, high GO partial pressure tends to retard the reaction the partial pressure of H2 hardly affects the reaction rate (Phz -5 MPa). In most cases, the regio- and enantioselectivities are independent of H2 and GO pressure. Deuterioformylation experiments clearly demonstrate the irreversibility of the olefin-insertion step at total pressures of 2-10MPa (D2/G0=I/I). This fact proves that the regio- and enantioselectivity of the present hydroformylation should be controlled by the olefin-insertion step. Herrmann reported the theoretical calculation of the olefin coordination step, explaining selectivity obtained with (i ,A)-BINAPHOS/Rh system for the hydroformylation of styrene. 

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