Titanium isopropoxide complex

Another titanium isopropoxide complex 38, supported by a monoanionic bidentate N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-containing alcoholate ligand, was tested in ROP of rac-LA (Scheme 6.5). Complex 38 exhibited exceptionally fast ROP catalysis at room temperature (1 min, LA Ti = 100, conv. = 60%, PDI = 1.19), but with poor chain control. All analysis suggests that catalyst 38 behaves bifunctionally with the titanium centre acting as a Lewis acid for the... 

Strontium titanate (SrXi03) by reacting titanium isopropoxide and a strontium beta-diketonate complex at 600-850°C and 5 Xorr. 

Strontium titanate (SrTi03) has a large dielectric constant of 12, and a high refractive index with potential opto-electronic applications. It is deposited by MOCVD from titanium isopropoxide and a strontium beta-diketonate complex at 600-850°C and 5 Torr.t" " ... 

Gagliardi, C. D. Dunuwila, D. Van Vlierberge-Torgerson, B. A. Berglund, K. A. 1992. Reaction kinetics for the hydrolysis of titanium isopropoxide carboxylate complexes. In Better Ceramics Through Chemistry V, edited by Hampden-Smith, M. J. Klemperer, W. G. Brinker, C. J. Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 271 257-262. 

A major advantage that nonenzymic chiral catalysts might have over enzymes, then, is their potential ability to accept substrates of different structures by contrast, an enzyme will select only its substrate from a mixture. Striking examples are the chiral phosphine-rhodium catalysts, which catalyze die hydrogenation of double bonds to produce chiral amino acids (10-12), and the titanium isopropoxide-tartrate complex of Sharpless (11,13,14), which catalyzes the epoxidation of numerous allylic alcohols. Since the enantiomeric purities of the products from these reactions are exceedingly high (>90%), we might conclude... 

Crocker and co-workers reported the use of 108 as starting material in the preparation of monomeric titanasilsesquioxane phenoxide derivatives. Heating of the isopropoxide precursor with phenols resulted in elimination of i-PrOH and formation of the corresponding titanium phenoxide complexes (Scheme 36). 

Narasaka et al. demonstrated the utility of titanium-ligand complexes in the resolution of chiral a-aryl esters [52]. Ti(Oi-Pr)4-ligand 56 complex resolves 2-pyridine thioesters with high selectivities (fcrei=26-42, see Scheme 13). Seebach and co-workers have examined titanium-TADDOLate complexes as reagents for the ring opening of meso anhydrides, dioxolanones, and azalactones [53]. Addition of an achiral isopropoxide source renders the desymmetrization of meso... 

Isocyanate formation through multiple bond metathesis of C02 with carbodiimide has been also demonstrated [112]. This transformation can be promoted by titanium isopropoxide, at 383 K, in THF as solvent. It is worth noting that the reverse process, which opens an entry into carbodiimide synthesis, is a well-known process that is catalyzed by several other systems, including trialkylphosphine oxides [113] or vanadium-oxo or -imido complexes [114]. 

The chiral precatalyst is a titanium species. It is generated by the in situ treatment of titanium isopropoxide with diethyl or diisopropyl tartarate. The relative amounts of Ti(OPr )4 and the tartarate ester have a major influence on the rate of epoxidation and enentioselectivity. This is because the reaction between Ti(OPr )4 and the tartarate ester leads to the formation of many complexes with different Ti tartarate ratios. All these complexes have different catalytic activities and enantioselectivities. At the optimum Ti tartarate ratio (1 1.2) complex 9.35 is the predominant species in solution. This gives the catalytic system of highest activity and enantioselectivity. The general phenomenon of rate enhancement due to coordination by a specific ligand, with a specific metal-to-ligand stoichiometry, is called ligand-accelerated catalysis. 

Chiral epoxides are important intermediates in organic synthesis. A benchmark classic in the area of asymmetric catalytic oxidation is the Sharpless epoxidation of allylic alcohols in which a complex of titanium and tartrate salt is the active catalyst [273]. Its success is due to its ease of execution and the ready availability of reagents. A wide variety of primary allylic alcohols are epoxidized in >90% optical yield and 70-90% chemical yield using tert-butyl hydroperoxide as the oxygen donor and titanium-isopropoxide-diethyltartrate (DET) as the catalyst (Fig. 4.97). In order for this reaction to be catalytic, the exclusion of water is absolutely essential. This is achieved by adding 3 A or 4 A molecular sieves. The catalytic cycle is identical to that for titanium epoxidations discussed above (see Fig. 4.20) and the actual catalytic species is believed to be a 2 2 titanium(IV) tartrate dimer (see Fig. 4.98). The key step is the preferential transfer of oxygen from a coordinated alkylperoxo moiety to one enantioface of a coordinated allylic alcohol. For further information the reader is referred to the many reviews that have been written on this reaction [274, 275]. 

The epoxides (11) derived from 2-substituted allylic alcohols (10) are particularly susceptible to nucleophilic attack at C-3, a reaction that is promoted by titanium(IV) species. When stoichiometric amounts of titanium tartrate complex are used in these epoxidations considerable product is lost via opening of the epoxide before it can be isolated from the reaction. The primary nucleophilic culprit is the isopropoxide ligand of the Ti(OPr )4. The use of Ti(OBu )4 in place of Ti(OPr )4 has been prescribed as a means to reduce this problem (the t-butoxide being a poorer nucleophile). Fortunately, a better solution now exists in the form of the catalytic version of the reaction which uses only 5-10 mol % of titanium tartrate complex and greatly reduces the amount of epoxide ring opening. Some comparisons of results from reactions run under the two sets of conditions are possible tom the epoxidations summarized in Table 3. 

The HRE peptide was shown to minerahze a total of seven nanoclusters, ZnS, Au , Ag°, Pt°, Cu , Ti02, and Ag2S. All nanoparticles were formed by mixing appropriate ratios of metal to peptide to form a metal peptide precursor complex. To this solution, sulfide or reductant was added to form the appropriate encapsulated metal nanocluster. Condensation of titanium isopropoxide in the presence of HRE was used for synthesis of Ti02-(HRE) nanoparticles. Once formed, all of the nanoclusters were characterized using UV-vis, IR, powder XRD, transmission electron microscopy, and an antigen capture assay,... 

Titanium(IV) isopropoxide Chemical Abstracts nomenclature 2-propanol, titanium(4-f-) salt) is the titanium species of choice for preparation of the titanium tartrate complex in the asymmetric epoxidation process. The use of titanium(IV) t-butoxide has been recommended for those reactions in which the epoxy alcohol product is particularily sensitive to ring opening by the alkoxide. The 2-substituted epoxy alcohols (Section 3.2.5.2) are one such class of compounds. Ring opening by t-butoxide is much slower than by isopropoxide. With the reduced amount of catalyst that now is needed for all asymmetric epoxidations, the use of Ti(OBu )4 appears to be unnecessary in most cases, but the concept is worth noting. 

With chiral ligands, the transition-metal catalyst-hydroperoxide complex yields optically active oxiranes. " One of the most significant advances in the formation of chiral epoxides from allyl alcohols has recently been reported by the Sharpless group. Using (-l-)-tartaric acid, ferf-butylhydroperoxide, and titanium isopropoxide, they were able to obtain chiral epoxides in very high enantiomeric excess. The enantiomeric epoxide can be obtained by employing (—)-tartaric acid (Eq. 33a). 

It is advantageous to utilize either titanium isopropoxide or trimethylaluminum complexes with aldehydes in general, because pinacol-coupled diols form with the Zn/CH2Br2/riG4 systems as minor side products. No evidence of Simmons-Smith-type side products was observed with any of the methylena-tion reagents. Additional examples of the reaction with aldehydes are presented in Table 11. 

Epoxidation of oleic and linoleic acid was readily achieved by treatment with the acetonitrile complex of hypofluorous acid (55). Phase-transfer-catalyzed biphasic epoxidation of unsaturated triglycerides was accomplished with ethylmethyldioxirane in 2-butanone (56). The enantioselective formation of an a,P-epoxy alcohol by reaction of methyl 13()S)-hydroperoxy-18 2(9Z,llfi) with titanium isopropoxide has been reported (57). An immobilized form of Candida antartica on acrylic resin (Novozyme 435) was used to catalyze the perhydrolysis and the interesterification of esters. Unsaturated alcohols were converted with an ester in the presence of hydrogen peroxide to esters of epoxidized alcohols (e.g., epoxystearylbutyrate) directly (58). Homoallyl ethers were obtained from olefinic fatty esters by the ethylaluminium-in-duced reactions with dimethyl acetals of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, isobutyralde-hyde, and pivaldehyde (59). Reaction of 18 2(9Z, 12Z) with 50% BF3-methanol gave monomethoxy and dimethoxy derivatives (60). A bulky phosphite-modified rhodium catalyst was developed for the hydroformylation of methyl 18 1 (9Z)and 18 1(9 ), which furnished mixtures of formylstearate and diformylstearate (61). 

The modification by-passes the use of molecular sieves, often recommended by other authors, and is claimed to improve the reproducibility of the reaction. In a Schlenk tube, 2 mL of degassed toluene was added to 60 mg (0.2 mmol) of (i )-l,r-binaphthalene-2,2 -diol, then 59 pL (0.20 mmol) of titanium isopropoxide was added. After stirring for 1 hour, the solvent was removed. These complexes are not air stable and were stored in Schlenk tubes under Argon. For the catalytic allylation reactions the complexes were prepared just before use. 

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