Rhodium chloride isomerization

The isomerization of allyl ethers to 1-propenyl ethers, which is usually performed with potassium tert-butoxide in dimethyl sulfoxide, can also be carried out under milder conditions using tris(triphen-ylphosphine)rhodium chloride,208 and by an ene reaction with diethyl azodicarboxylate,209,210 which affords a vinyl ether adduct. Removal of an O-allyl group may be achieved by oxidation with selenium dioxide in acetic acid,211 and by treatment with N-bromosuccinimide, followed by an aqueous base.201,212... 

Recently, it has been discovered that catalysis by rhodium compounds is more effective than by the older cobalt catalyst when tris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium chloride is treated with carbon monoxide, the catalyst bis(triphenylphosphine)rhodium carbonyl chloride is formed. This catalyst is very effective under very mild conditions (49-51). It is believed that the tr-ir rearrangement is also important with this catalyst and operates in a manner analogous to that in the cobalt-catalyzed process, since stablization of the cr complex has been shown to lead to olefin isomerization and lower linear selectivity (52). 

Olefin isomerization has been widely studied, mainly because it is a convenient tool for unravelling basic mechanisms involved in the interaction of olefins with metal atoms (10). The reaction is catalyzed by cobalt hydrocarbonyl, iron pentacarbonyl, rhodium chloride, palladium chloride, the platinum-tin complex, and by several phosphine complexes a review of this field has recently been published (12). Two types of mechanism have been visualized for this reaction. The first involves the preformation of a metal-hydrogen bond into which the olefin (probably already coordinated) inserts itself with the formation of a (j-bonded alkyl radical. On abstraction of a hydrogen atom from a diflFerent carbon atom, an isomerized olefin results. 

Because the possibility of olefinic isomerization still loomed important in considering product distributions, we decided to add the powerful olefin isomerization catalyst (17), rhodium trichloride, to the system. No change in product distribution from that of palladium chloride alone was found with either hexene or 2-hexene when a 1 1 molar ratio of rhodium trichloride/palladium chloride was used (Table VII). This is further evidence that the relative rate of vinylation is greater than that of isomerization. When rhodium chloride was used with hexene without any added palladium chloride at 115°C., only slight reaction occurred, and the product contained 85.7% 2-acetate, 10.2% 1-acetate, and 4.1% 3-acetate. Apparently, vinylation had occurred with rhodium trichloride in a manner analogous to oxymercuration and the low-temperature palladium vinylation reaction. 

When reacting alkenes with triethylsilane it is necessary to keep in mind that the PdCl2/Et3SiH combination also promotes the double bond isomerization of monosubstituted aliphatic olefins and a-alkylidene cyclic carbonyl compounds are isomerized to a,/3-unsaturated cyclic carbonyls with tris(triphenylphosphine) rhodium chloride. ... 

Rhodium chloride supported on silica gel is found to be more active than the homogeneous catalyst for ethylene dimerization [242,243]. As for the homogeneous catalyst, hydrogen chloride remarkably enhanced the catalytic activity. 1-Butene formed in the initial stage is isomerized to 2-butene. The dimerization activity per unit weight of catalysts increases in the order silica gel supported > silica alumina supported > alumina supported. 

Labeling studies have shown that migration of the double bonds does not result from successive migration of hydrogen. Evidence for the following type of mechanism, which is probably applicable to other catalysts as well, has been proposed for a rhodium chloride-catalyzed isomerization (Fig. 7-4). 

The direct combination of selenium and acetylene provides the most convenient source of selenophene (76JHC1319). Lesser amounts of many other compounds are formed concurrently and include 2- and 3-alkylselenophenes, benzo[6]selenophene and isomeric selenoloselenophenes (76CS(10)159). The commercial availability of thiophene makes comparable reactions of little interest for the obtention of the parent heterocycle in the laboratory. However, the reaction of substituted acetylenes with morpholinyl disulfide is of some synthetic value. The process, which appears to entail the initial formation of thionitroxyl radicals, converts phenylacetylene into a 3 1 mixture of 2,4- and 2,5-diphenylthiophene, methyl propiolate into dimethyl thiophene-2,5-dicarboxylate, and ethyl phenylpropiolate into diethyl 3,4-diphenylthiophene-2,5-dicarboxylate (Scheme 83a) (77TL3413). Dimethyl thiophene-2,4-dicarboxylate is obtained from methyl propiolate by treatment with dimethyl sulfoxide and thionyl chloride (Scheme 83b) (66CB1558). The rhodium carbonyl catalyzed carbonylation of alkynes in alcohols provides 5-alkoxy-2(5//)-furanones (Scheme 83c) (81CL993). The inclusion of ethylene provides 5-ethyl-2(5//)-furanones instead (82NKK242). The nickel acetate catalyzed addition of r-butyl isocyanide to alkynes provides access to 2-aminopyrroles (Scheme 83d) (70S593). 

The reaction of crotyl bromide with ethyl diazoacetate once again reveals distinct differences between rhodium and copper catalysis. Whereas with copper catalysts, the products 125 and 126, expected from a [2,3] and a [1,2] rearrangement of an intermediary halonium ylide, are obtained by analogy with the crotyl chloride reaction 152a), the latter product is absent in the rhodium-catalyzed reaction at or below room temperature. Only when the temperature is raised to ca. 40 °C, 126 is found as well, together with a substantial amount of bromoacetate 128. It was assured that only a minor part of 126 arose from [2,3] rearrangement of an ylide derived from 3-bromo-l-butene which is in equilibrium with the isomeric crotyl bromide at 40 °C. 

The diester 226 undergoes ring-closure to the methylenecyclopentane derivative 227 in the presence of a catalytic amount of chlorotris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium in boiling chloroform saturated with hydrogen chloride. In contrast, if the reaction is catalysed by palladium(II) acetate, the isomeric cyclopentene 228 is produced (equation 115)118. 

Subsequently to rhodium coordination with the enyne to form X, oxidative addition with the allyl chloride affords a rhodium-7r-allyl complex. Then isomerization... 

For determination of its configuration via a conformationally restricted cyclic derivative, A -allylamino alcohol derivative 475 was treated with tris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium(l) chloride to afford a 19 1 mixture of the C-2-epimeric tetrahydro-l,3-oxazines 476 and 477 by intramolecular trapping of the intermediate iminium species, in equilibrium with the enamine generated in the isomerization of the allyl double bond (Equation 52) <1997CC565>. 

III,C, isomerization often accompanies hydroformylation. It has, however, been found that [(PhCN)2PdCl2] absorbed onto silica gel is 100 times more active for the isomerization of a-olefins, such as 1-heptene, than is the same complex alone (116). This implies some specific role for the silica gel. Attempts to use rhodium(III) chloride absorbed onto silica gel, alumina, activated charcoal, and diatomaceous earth as a-olefin isomerization catalysts showed that all these catalysts were unstable even at room temperature (100). 

When either an alcohol or an amine function is present in the alkene, the possibility for lactone or lactam formation exists. Cobalt or rhodium catalysts convert 2,2-dimethyl-3-buten-l-ol to 2,3,3-trimethyl- y-butyrolactone, with minor amounts of the 8-lactone being formed (equation 51).2 In this case, isomerization of the double bond is not possible. The reaction of allyl alcohols catalyzed by cobalt or rhodium is carried out under reaction conditions that are severe, so isomerization to propanal occurs rapidly. Running the reaction in acetonitrile provides a 60% yield of lactone, while a rhodium carbonyl catalyst in the presence of an amine gives butane-1,4-diol in 60-70% (equation 52).8 A mild method of converting allyl and homoallyl alcohols to lactones utilizes the palladium chloride/copper chloride catalyst system (Table 6).79,82 83... 

The products of oxidative addition of acyl chlorides and alkyl halides to various tertiary phosphine complexes of rhodium(I) and iridium(I) are discussed. Features of interest include (1) an equilibrium between a five-coordinate acetylrhodium(III) cation and its six-coordinate methyl(carbonyl) isomer which is established at an intermediate rate on the NMR time scale at room temperature, and (2) a solvent-dependent secondary- to normal-alkyl-group isomerization in octahedral al-kyliridium(III) complexes. The chemistry of monomeric, tertiary phosphine-stabilized hydroxoplatinum(II) complexes is reviewed, with emphasis on their conversion into hydrido -alkyl or -aryl complexes. Evidence for an electronic cis-PtP bond-weakening influence is presented. 

Catalyst for DIels-Alder reaction of ynamlnes. A zero-valent iron species prepared by reduction of iron(III) chloride with isopropylmagnesium chloride serves as a unique catalyst for cycloaddition of butadiene and ynamines (1) to form 1,4-cyclohexadienamines (2). These products are hydrolyzed by mild acid treatment to (3,y-cyclohexenones (3), which are isomerized to either 4 or 5 by catalytic amounts of rhodium catalysts. 

The preparation of bis(bipyridyl) (702) and bis(phenanthroline) cobalt(III) complexes (576) has been the subject of a number of papers. Interest centers on the possibility of cis-trans isomerism in these complexes, since it would seem that the close approach of the 6,6 -(bipyridyl) and 2,9-(phenanthroline) protons in the trans complex would make this stereochemistry unattractive for central ions such as co-balt(III), rhodium(III), or iridium(III). Cis complexes are well established, but a violet compound claimed to be anionic cobalt(II) species (21, 573, 591). 

On heating at 160°C in the presence of catalytic amounts of copper bronze or copper(l) chloride, ethyl 2-methoxy-2-vinylcyclopropanecarboxylates (220) undergo ring expansion into the isomeric 3-methoxy-2-cyclopentene (221) and 3-methoxy-3-cyclo-pentenecarboxylates (222) equation 146) on the other hand platinum and rhodium complexes catalyse the ring-opening into ethyl-4-methoxy-3,5-hexadienoate. ... 

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