Transfer hydrodehalogenation

B nyei., A.C., Lehel, S. and Jo6, F.J., Transfer hydrodehalogenation of organic halides catalyzed by water-soluble ruthenium(II) phosphine complexes, Mol Catal. A Chem., 1997, 116, 349. 

Atom Transfer Atom Transfer (AT) takes place typically in the case of d7 complexes, which abstract the halogen atom from RX. The radical formed combines then with a second metal [193, 194]. A classical example of this mechanism is the hydrodehalogenation with cyanocobaltates(II) (see Section 18.2.1) [8, 9], but an analogous pathway was suggested recently for the Co(II) corrin-catalyzed dechlorination of CC14 in the presence of S2 /cysteine as reductant (Eqs. (11)—(12))... 

Rhodium(III) complexes [e.g. (i-Pr,P)2Rh(H)Cl2] in the presence of quaternary ammonium salts are excellent catalysts for the hydrogenolysis of chloroarenes under mild conditions [5] other labile substituents are unaffected. Hydrodehalogenation of haloaryl ketones over a palladium catalyst to give acylbenzenes is also aided by the addition of Aliquat [6]. In the absence of the phase-transfer catalyst, or when the hydrogenation is conducted in ethanol, the major product is the corresponding alkyl-benzene, which is also produced by hydrodehalogenation of the halobenzyl alcohols. 

The hydrodehalogenation of o-bromonitrobenzene with Pd and Hj to give nitrobenzene is usually unsatisfactory, but under transfer hydrogenation conditions with triethy-lammonium formate a 91% yield of nitrobenzene was obtained. ... 

Patzold, E. Ohme, G. (1993) Water-soluble palladium(ll) phosphine complexes as catalysts in the hydrodehalogenation of allyl and benzyl halogenides under biphasic and phase-transfer conditions, J. Prakt. Chem. - Chem. Ztg., 335,181-4. 

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