Rhodium catalysts hydrogen

Some examples of the use of a temporary additional site of coordination have been published. Burk and Feaster have transformed a series of ketones into hydrazones capable of chelating to a rhodium catalyst (Scheme 4.7). Upon coordination, enanti os elective hydrogenation of the hydrazone is feasible, yielding N-aroylhydrazines in up to 97% ee. Finally, the hydrazines were transformed into amines by treatment with Sml2. 

On catalytic hydrogenation over a rhodium catalyst the compound shown gave a mixture containing as 1 ten butyl 4 methylcyclohexane (88%) and trans 1 ten butyl 4 methylcyclo hexane (12%) With this stereochemical result in mind consider the reactions in (a) and (b)... 

Process Technology. In a typical oxo process, primary alcohols are produced from monoolefins in two steps. In the first stage, the olefin, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide [630-08-0] react in the presence of a cobalt or rhodium catalyst to form aldehydes, which are hydrogenated in the second step to the alcohols. 

Efficient enantioselective asymmetric hydrogenation of prochiral ketones and olefins has been accompHshed under mild reaction conditions at low (0.01— 0.001 mol %) catalyst concentrations using rhodium catalysts containing chiral ligands (140,141). Practical synthesis of several optically active natural... 

With Unsaturated Compounds. The reaction of unsaturated organic compounds with carbon monoxide and molecules containing an active hydrogen atom leads to a variety of interesting organic products. The hydroformylation reaction is the most important member of this class of reactions. When the hydroformylation reaction of ethylene takes place in an aqueous medium, diethyl ketone [96-22-0] is obtained as the principal product instead of propionaldehyde [123-38-6] (59). Ethylene, carbon monoxide, and water also yield propionic acid [79-09-4] under mild conditions (448—468 K and 3—7 MPa or 30—70 atm) using cobalt or rhodium catalysts containing bromide or iodide (60,61). 

II. Low-Pressure Hydrogenation of Phenols over Rhodium Catalysts... 

The rhodium catalyst previously discussed is employed in the hydrogenation of / -hydroxybenzoic acid. The resulting mixture of cis and trans products is separated by virtue of the ready formation of the lactone of the cis product, which is then hydrolized to the hydroxy acid. 

Closely related to the use of rhodium catalysts for the hydrogenation of phenols is their use in the reduction of anilines. The procedure gives details for the preparation of the catalyst and its use to carry out the low-pressure reduction of /j-aminobenzoic acid. Then, as in the preceding experiment, advantage is taken of the formation of a cyclic product to carry out the separation of a mixture of cis and trans cyclohexyl isomers. 

The benzylic position of an alkylbcnzene can be brominated by reaction with jV-bromosuccinimide, and the entire side chain can be degraded to a carboxyl group by oxidation with aqueous KMnCfy Although aromatic rings are less reactive than isolated alkene double bonds, they can be reduced to cyclohexanes by hydrogenation over a platinum or rhodium catalyst. In addition, aryl alkyl ketones are reduced to alkylbenzenes by hydrogenation over a platinum catalyst. 

William Knowles at the Monsanto Company discovered some years ago that u-amino acids can be prepared enantioselectively by hydrogenation of a Z enam-ido acid with a chiral hydrogenation catalyst. (S)-Phenylalanine, for instance, is prepared in 98.7% purity contaminated by only 1.3% of the (H) enantiomer when a chiral rhodium catalyst is used. For this discovery, Knowles shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in chemistry. 

Hydroformylation is an important industrial process carried out using rhodium phosphine or cobalt carbonyl catalysts. The major industrial process using the rhodium catalyst is hydroformylation of propene with synthesis gas (potentially obtainable from a renewable resource, see Chapter 6). The product, butyraldehyde, is formed as a mixture of n- and iso- isomers the n-isomer is the most desired product, being used for conversion to butanol via hydrogenation) and 2-ethylhexanol via aldol condensation and hydrogenation). Butanol is a valuable solvent in many surface coating formulations whilst 2-ethylhexanol is widely used in the production of phthalate plasticizers. 

Palladium is used as a catalyst for hydrogenation reactions in the food industry, and a rhodium catalyst is used in... 

The role of the support on hydrogen chemisorption on supported rhodium catalysts was studied using static and frequency response techniques. In all Instances, several klnetlcally distinct H2 cheml-sorptlve sites were observed. On the basis of the kinetics, at least one site appears to sorb H2 molecularly at temperatures below 150°C, regardless of the support. At higher temperatures, a dissociative mechanism may become dominant. Inducement of the SMSI state In Rh/T102 does not significantly alter Its equilibrium H2 chemisorption. 

Figure 2. Hydrogen adsorption and desorption Isotherms for rhodium catalysts. Solid lines denote total adsorption and dashed lines denote reversible adsorption. The meaning of symbols Is as follows ...

These results are consistent with recently reported results by Haller, et al. (10) on the reactions of CO/H2 and NHj over Rh catalysts In which no significant differences were observed between catalysts reduced at low and high temperatures (presumably "normal and SMSI) but In which Rh/S102 was found to behave differently. Thus, there appears to be some correlation between the FRC chemisorption results and the reactivity patterns of supported rhodium catalysts which we would like to believe supports the assertion that the sites at which hydrogen sorbs reversibly are those at which catalytlcally Important reactions occur, and that FRC can monitor the density and relative kinetics of these sites. 

GP 8[ [R 7] Rhodium catalysts generally show no pronoimced activation phase as given for other catalysts in other reactions [3]. In the first 4 h of operation, methane conversion and hydrogen selectivity increases by only a few percent. After this short and non-pronounced formation phase, no significant changes in activity were determined in the experimental runs for more than 200 h. 

Table 6. Initial hydrogenation rates in Et0H/H20 (1/1, v/v) of simple and functionalized alkenes (0.05 M) over platinum or rhodium catalysts (30 °C, 105 kPa, M/alkene = 2 x 10, mol/mol).

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