Rhodium polymer-based

The hydrophilic polymer-based rhodium complex depicted below was examined in four consecutive runs in the hydroformylation of 1-octene using an aqueous two-phase system (50 bar syngas, 100 C, 2 h) [56]. The n-regioselectivity was influenced by the polymeric backbone, leading to an lib ratio of 72 28 after the first run. After the fourth run, the catalytic system reached a TOF of 2360 h which is comparable to that found with a corresponding monomeric rhodium complex (2400 h , lib = 40 60). 

The polyamide obtained by polycondensation of 2,6-diaminopyridine and 2,6-pyridine dicarboxylic acid was the first polymer to assemble itself into a double helix (DNA-type) in solution. The synthesis and physicochemical characterization of some polymer-supported rhodium catalysts based on polyamides containing 2,6- and 2,5-pyridine units were reported by Michalska and Strzelec (2000) these catalysts were used for the hydrosilylation of vinyl compounds such as phenylacetylene. Chevallier et al. (2002) prepared polyamide-esters from 2,6-pyridine dicarboxylic acid and thanolamine derivatives and investigated their polymer sorption behavior towards heavy metal ions. Finally, Scorlanu et al. (2006) also prepared a polymer with improved performance based on polyureas containing 2,6-pyridine moiety and polyparabanic acids, and polymethane-ureas containing 2,6-pyridine rings. 

Michalska, Z. M., Strzelec, K. (2000), Synthesis and physicochemical characterization of polymeric supports and polymer-supported rhodium catalysts based on polyamides having a pyridine moiety. Reactive Functional Polymers, 44,189-99. 

Ionic liquids have already been demonstrated to be effective membrane materials for gas separation when supported within a porous polymer support. However, supported ionic liquid membranes offer another versatile approach by which to perform two-phase catalysis. This technology combines some of the advantages of the ionic liquid as a catalyst solvent with the ruggedness of the ionic liquid-polymer gels. Transition metal complexes based on palladium or rhodium have been incorporated into gas-permeable polymer gels composed of [BMIM][PFg] and poly(vinyli-dene fluoride)-hexafluoropropylene copolymer and have been used to investigate the hydrogenation of propene [21]. 

Most of the more recent studies have concentrated on rhodium. An effective system for a gas-phase reaction was reported by Arai et al. (107). The catalyst support was silica gel, which was desirable for its high surface area properties (293 m3/g). This was covered with a polymer formed from styrene and divinylbenzene, either by emulsion (A) or by solution (B) polymerization. Each of these base materials was then functionalized by the reactions shown in Eq. (49). 

Adsorption is commonly used for catalyst removal/recovery. The process involves treating the polymer solution with suitable materials which adsorb the catalyst residue and are then removed by filtration. Panster et al. [105] proposed a method involving adsorbers made from organosiloxane copolycondensates to recover rhodium and ruthenium catalysts from solutions of HNBR. These authors claimed that the residual rhodium could be reduced to less than 5 ppm, based on the HNBR content which had a hydrogenation conversion of over... 

A mechanistic study by Haynes et al. demonstrated that the same basic reaction cycle operates for rhodium-catalysed methanol carbonylation in both homogeneous and supported systems [59]. The catalytically active complex [Rh(CO)2l2] was supported on an ion exchange resin based on poly(4-vinylpyridine-co-styrene-co-divinylbenzene) in which the pendant pyridyl groups had been quaternised by reaction with Mel. Heterogenisation of the Rh(I) complex was achieved by reaction of the quaternised polymer with the dimer, [Rh(CO)2l]2 (Scheme 11). Infrared spectroscopy revealed i (CO) bands for the supported [Rh(CO)2l2] anions at frequencies very similar to those observed in solution spectra. The structure of the supported complex was confirmed by EXAFS measurements, which revealed a square planar geometry comparable to that found in solution and the solid state. The first X-ray crystal structures of salts of [Rh(CO)2l2]" were also reported in this study. 

This approach can be illustrated by describing the preparation of the polymer rhodium catalyst II (Sec. 9-lg). The synthesis is based on a nucleophilic substitution reaction of chlor-omethylated polystyrene [Grubbs and Kroll, 1971] ... 

The nature of the support can have a very profound influence on the catalyst activity. Thus, phosphinated polyvinyl chloride supports are fairly inactive (75), and phosphinated polystyrene catalysts are considerably more active (57), but rather less active particularly when cyclic olefins are the substrates than phosphinated silica supports (76). Silica-supported catalysts may be more active because the rhodium(I) complexes are bound to the outside of the silica surface and are, therefore, more readily available to the reactants than in the polystyrene-based catalysts where the rhodium(I) complex may be deep inside the polymer beads. If this is so, the polystyrene-based catalysts should be more valuable when it is desired to hydrogenate selectively one olefin in a mixture of olefins, whereas the silica-based catalysts should be more valuable when a rapid hydrogenation of a pure substrate is required. 

Carbon-based sorbents are relatively new materials for the analysis of noble metal samples of different origin [78-84]. The separation and enrichment of palladium from water, fly ash, and road dust samples on oxidized carbon nanotubes (preconcentration factor of 165) [83] palladium from road dust samples on dithiocarbamate-coated fullerene Cso (sorption efficiency of 99.2 %) [78], and rhodium on multiwalled carbon nanotubes modified with polyacrylonitrile (preconcentration factor of 120) [80] are examples of the application of various carbon-based sorbents for extraction of noble metals from environmental samples. Sorption of Au(III) and Pd(ll) on hybrid material of multiwalled carbon nanotubes grafted with polypropylene amine dendrimers prior to their determination in food and environmental samples has recently been described [84]. Recent application of ion-imprinted polymers using various chelate complexes for SPE of noble metals such as Pt [85] and Pd [86] from environmental samples can be mentioned. Hydrophobic noble metal complexes undergo separation by extraction under cloud point extraction systems, for example, extraction of Pt, Pd, and Au with N, A-dihexyl-A -benzylthiourea-Triton X-114 from sea water and dust samples [87]. 

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