Ruthenium carbon complex

FIGURE 10.5 It is possible to hydrogenate less-substituted double bonds in the presence of more-hindered, more-substituted double bonds.The catalyst in this example is a ruthenium-carbon complex. 

In 1998, Wakatsuki et al. reported the first anti-Markonikov hydration of 1-alkynes to aldehydes by an Ru(II)/phosphine catalyst. Heating 1-alkynes in the presence of a catalytic amount of [RuCljlCgHs) (phosphine)] phosphine = PPh2(QF5) or P(3-C6H4S03Na)3 in 2-propanol at 60-100°C leads to predominantly anti-Markovnikov addition of water and yields aldehydes with only a small amount of methyl ketones (Eq. 6.47) [95]. They proposed the attack of water on an intermediate ruthenium vinylidene complex. The C-C bond cleavage or decarbonylation is expected to occur as a side reaction together with the main reaction leading to aldehyde formation. Indeed, olefins with one carbon atom less were always detected in the reaction mixtures (Scheme 6-21). 

The sensor for the measurement of high levels of CO2 in gas phase was developed, as well90. It was based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer between 0 long-lifetime ruthenium polypyridyl complex and the pH-active disazo dye Sudan III. The donor luminophore and the acceptor dye were both immobilized in a hydrophobic silica sol-gel/ethyl cellulose hybrid matrix. The sensor exhibited a fast and reversible response to carbon dioxide over a wide range of concentrations. 

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis could be "tailored by the use of iron, cobalt and ruthenium carbonyl complexes deposited on faujasite Y-type zeolite as starting materials for the preparation of catalysts. Short chain hydrocarbons, i.e. in the C-j-Cq range are obtained. It appears that the formation and the stabilization of small metallic aggregates into the zeolite supercage are the prerequisite to induce a chain length limitation in the hydrocondensation of carbon monoxide. However, the control of this selectivity through either a definite particle size of the metal or a shape selectivity of the zeolite is still a matter of speculation. Further work is needed to solve this dilemna. 

The ruthenium acyloxymethyl complex produced by step 6 of Scheme 1 could, of course, eliminate the methyl ester product, but it also has the possibility of leading to a two-carbon product via alkyl group migration to coordinated CO (eq. 2). 

Kondo and Watanabe developed allylations of various types of aldehydes and oximes by using nucleophilic (7r-allyl)ruthenium(ll) complexes of type 154 bearing carbon monoxide ligands (Equation (29)).345 These 73-allyl-ruthenium complexes 154 are ambiphilic reagents and the presence of the carbon monoxide ligands proved to be essential to achieve catalytic allylation reactions. Interestingly, these transformations occur with complete regioselectivity only the more substituted allylic terminus adds to the aldehyde. 

A most significant advance in the alkyne hydration area during the past decade has been the development of Ru(n) catalyst systems that have enabled the anti-Markovnikov hydration of terminal alkynes (entries 6 and 7). These reactions involve the addition of water to the a-carbon of a ruthenium vinylidene complex, followed by reductive elimination of the resulting hydridoruthenium acyl intermediate (path C).392-395 While the use of GpRuGl(dppm) in aqueous dioxane (entry 6)393-396 and an indenylruthenium catalyst in an aqueous medium including surfactants has proved to be effective (entry 7),397 an Ru(n)/P,N-ligand system (entry 8) has recently been reported that displays enzyme-like rate acceleration (>2.4 x 1011) (dppm = bis(diphenylphosphino)methane).398... 

G. Orellana, M. C. Moreno-Bondi, E. Segovia, M. D. Marazuela, Fiber-optic sensing of carbon dioxide based on excited-state proton transfer to a luminescent ruthenium(II) complex, Anal. Chem. 64, 2210-2215(1992). 

Among all the carbon nanomaterials, fullerenes are by far the most studied systems in terms of chemical modification. It is safe to say that this field of research has been one of the most active for more than 20 years [113,114]. Therefore, it is not surprising to find several examples of well-known dyes that have been functionalized with fullerene derivatives and have been tested in DSSCs. The first report in this regard was given in 2007 by Kim et al. [115]. They described a route to attach C60 to N3 dye (cis-bis(4,4 -dicarboxy-2,2 -bipyridinejdithiocyanato ruthenium(II)) via diaminohydorcar-bon linkers with different alkyl chains (Fig. 18.7). While the photocurrents were almost equal for all devices, Vocs increased up to 0.70 V with the functionalized ruthenium(II) complex from 0.68 V with pristine N3. In terms of efficiency, the values were 4.0 and... 

Ruthenium/carbon catalysts have also been promoted by the addition of Fe. Bron et al. reported the addition of Fe to a preformed Ru/C catalyst via adsorption of Fe complexes, followed by heat treatment. They found an increase in oxygen reduction activity of three to five times over unmodified Ru/C. It was suggested that the surfaces of Ru particles were covered with FeN,Cy sites. As discussed previously, the Pd alloys have shown significant MeOH tolerance toward oxygen reduction and appear to have activities closest to that of Ft. 

The 16-electron ruthenium(Il) complexes [(tj -C5Me5)Ru(NHC)Cl] with steri-cally demanding NHCs catalyze the carbon-carbon coupling of terminal alkynes HC R (R = Ph, SiMes, rBu, p-Tol) under mild conditions. The product selectivity strongly depends on the substituent R." ... 

The central Co,=Cp double bond of an allenylidene backbone can also react with a variety of dipolar organic substrates to yield cyclic adducts. Most of the cychza-tion processes reported occur in a stepwise manner via an initial nucleophilic attack at the Coi atom and further rearrangement of the molecule involving a coupling with the Cp carbon. Representative examples are the reactions of the electron-poor ruthenium-allenylidene complex 46 with ethyl diazoacetate and 1,1-diethylpropar-gylamine to yield the five- and six-membered heterocyclic compounds 82 and 83, respectively (Scheme 29) [260, 284]. 

In traditional synthetic organic chemistry, the Wittig reaction plays an important role in carbon-carbon bond extension from the carbonyl group. CM is an attractive alternative for carbon-carbon extension from a terminal alkene. In fact, a pyrroh-dine ring of anthramycin derivative 55 has been constructed by RCM of 52, and the sidechain has been extended by CM of terminal alkene of 54 with ethyl acrylate. " In the CM, ruthenium carbene complex Ij, reported by Blechert, gives a good result since the ligand of the catalyst easily dissociated from the ruthenium metal at room temperature ... 

Cross-metathesis of terminal alkyne 142 and cyclopentene gives cyclic compound 143 having a diene moiety [Eq. (6.114)]. ° Terminal ruthenium carbene generated from an alkyne and methylidene ruthenium carbene complex reacts with cyclopentene to afford two-carbon elongated cycloheptadiene 143 ... 

Highly reactive organic vinylidene and allenylidene species can be stabilized upon coordination to a metal center [1]. In 1979, Bruce et al. [2] reported the first ruthenium vinylidene complex from phenylacetylene and [RuCpCl(PPh3)2] in the presence of NH4PF6. Following this report, various mthenium vinylidene complexes have been isolated and their physical and chemical properties have been extensively elucidated [3]. As the a-carbon of ruthenium vinylidenes and the a and y-carbon of ruthenium allenylidenes are electrophilic in nature [4], the direct formation of ruthenium vinylidene and ruthenium allenylidene species, respectively, from terminal alkynes and propargylic alcohols provides easy access to numerous catalytic reactions since nucleophilic addition at these carbons is a viable route for new catalysis (Scheme 6.1). 

A proposed reaction pathway is shown in Scheme 7.29, where either the aromatic carbon or oxygen atom of naphthol may work as a nucleophile. Thus, the first step is the nucleophilic attack of the carbon atom of 1 -position of 2-naphthol on the C. atom of an allenylidene complex A to give a vinylidene complex B, which is then transformed into an alkenyl complex C by nucleophilic attack of the oxygen atom of a hydroxy group upon the Co, atom of B. Another possibility is the nucleophilic attack ofthe oxygen of 2-naphthol upon the Co, atom of the complex A. In this case, the initial attack of the naphthol oxygen results in the formation of a ruthenium-carbene complex, which subsequently leads to the complex B via the Claisen rearrangement of the carbene complex. 

Another application of ruthenium indenylidene complexes was the atom transfer radical addition of carbon tetrachloride to vinyl monomers reported by Verpoort [61]. This Kharasch reaction afforded good yields for all substrates tested, especially with the catalyst VIII (Equation 8.11, Table 8.8). 

Table 8.8 ATRA of carbon tetrachloride to various olefins catalyzed by ruthenium indenylidene complexes.

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