Transition metal complexes palladium

Although the main emphasis with imino functionalised carbene hgands is on their silver complexes, as carbene transfer agents, and on late transition metal complexes - palladium. 

The Cope- and Claisen rearrangements are also catalyzed by square-planar transition metal complexes. Palladium complexes have been responsible for spectacular increases in the rates of Cope rearrangements by factors of up to 10 . Certain other sigmatropic rearrangements are also catalyzed by transition metal complexes. 

Catalysis by Transition Metal Complexes Palladium Organometallic Chemistry Polynuclear Organometallic Cluster Complexes Self-assembled Inorganic Architectures Supported Organotransition Metal Compounds. 

Among the many transition metal complexes, palladium complexes have been known as the classic but still the most effective catalysts for ene-type cycliza-tions leading to five-membered rings [59,60]. However, the precedent examples for the enantioselective catalysis thereof are few [61-63], and hence there is a challenge to establish high levels of asymmetric induction as well as chemical yields [64]. 

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]. 

As well as phosphorus ligands, heterocyclic carbenes ligands 10 have proven to be interesting donor ligands for stabilization of transition metal complexes (especially palladium) in ionic liquids. The imidazolium cation is usually presumed to be a simple inert component of the solvent system. However, the proton on the carbon atom at position 2 in the imidazolium is acidic and this carbon atom can be depro-tonated by, for example, basic ligands of the metal complex, to form carbenes (Scheme 5.3-2). 

Various other transition metal complexes are also useful, including rhodium,195 palladium,196 and molybdenum197 compounds. The catalytic cycle can generally be represented as shown below.198... 

The mechanism for the reaction catalyzed by cationic palladium complexes (Scheme 24) differs from that proposed for early transition metal complexes, as well as from that suggested for the reaction shown in Eq. 17. For this catalyst system, the alkene substrate inserts into a Pd - Si bond a rather than a Pd-H bond [63]. Hydrosilylation of methylpalladium complex 100 then provides methane and palladium silyl species 112 (Scheme 24). Complex 112 coordinates to and inserts into the least substituted olefin regioselectively and irreversibly to provide 113 after coordination of the second alkene. Insertion into the second alkene through a boat-like transition state leads to trans cyclopentane 114, and o-bond metathesis (or oxidative addition/reductive elimination) leads to the observed trans stereochemistry of product 101a with regeneration of 112 [69]. 

Octaethylbilindione (H3OEB) is a convenient model for the bile pigment biliverdin IXa. Key redox states of this ligand as observed in its complexes are shown in Figure 14. The redox behavior of the palladium complex of octaethylbilindione was examined in order to determine the generality of the redox behavior of this group of transition metal complexes.202 A preliminary report on the novel tetrameric Pd4(OEB)2, which contains palladium) ) ions 7r-bonded to C=C bonds of the tetrapyrrole ligand, and of Pdn(OEB ) has appeared.203... 

Potentially coordinatively unsaturated dithiolene-metal complexes are rare,298-306 and 1 1 dithiolene-transition-metal complexes with no other ligands are, to our knowledge, unprecedented.307 The neutral complex [PdS2C2(COOMe)2]6,308 is homoleptic containing one dithiolene unit for each palladium atom and no other ligands. Electrochemical reduction of the compound depicted in Figue 21 proceeds in four reversible steps. 

Hydrolysis of oximes catalyzed by transition-metal complexes has not been studied prior to a report by Kostic et al. They have reported kinetics of hydrolysis of acetoxime to acetone catalyzed by two palladium(II) complexes, identified active species in the hydrolysis reaction, proposed a reaction mechanism, and fully characterized a bis(acetoxime) complex that is relatively stable toward hydrolysis.458... 

In preliminary studies various metal salts such as PdCl2 were attached to the ligands and the complexes characterized by NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. Typical examples are the palladium complexes (32)—(44) (Scheme 9).66 The catalytic profiles of these and other transition metal complexes prepared by this method still need to be defined. Moreover, solid-phase synthetic versions would be advantageous, and this may well be possible via the (protected) phenol function. 

After that, studies on the palladium-catalyzed reactions of conjugated dienes attracted little attention. They have only been reexamined since the late 1960 s. The scope of the reaction of butadiene catalyzed by palladium complexes has gradually been established. The catalysis by palladium is different from those of other transition metals. Although palladium is located below nickel in the periodic table, the catalytic... 

Some synthetically useful isomerization reactions of alkenes, other than nitrogen- or oxygen-substituted allylic compounds, were reported by the use of a catalytic amount of transition metal complexes. The palladium complex, /ra r-Pd(C6HsCN)2Gl2, effectively catalyzed the stereoselective isomerization of /3,7-unsaturated esters to a,/3-unsaturated esters (Equation (26)). 

The reductive cyclization of non-conjugated diynes is readily accomplished by treatment of the acetylenic substrate with stoichiometric amounts of low-valent titanium52 523 and zirconium complexes.53 533 Hence, it is interesting to note that while early transition metal complexes figure prominently as mediators of diyne reductive cyclization, to date, all catalyzed variants of this transformation employ late transition metal complexes based on nickel, palladium, platinum, and rhodium. Nevertheless, catalytic diyne reductive cyclization has received considerable attention and is a topic featured in several review articles. ... 

Negishi reported the hydrogen transfer hydroalumination of alkenes with (/-Bu AKTIBA) and catalytic amounts of palladium and other late transition metal complexes.125 Although uncatalyzed hydroaluminations of alkenes with di-and trialkylalanes at elevated temperatures have long been known, their scope and limitations as well as their synthetic utility have not been extensively explored. 

It is well known that the comparatively inert Si-H bonds of triorganosilane R3SiH (R = alkyl, aryl) can be activated by transition metal complexes. Chatgililaloglu et al. have used Et3SiH in palladium-catalyzed dehalogenation reactions, which occur with the involvement of free radicals.245... 

Alkynes react with the bulky germanium hydride (MejSdjGeH to selectively yield (Z)-alkenes (Equation (105)).67 The hydrogermylation of alkynols or alkynes can be catalyzed by a rhodium complex (Equation (106), Table 18) and some of the intermediates were identified (Scheme 16).132 Similar rhodium species react with alkynes to yield alkenyl complexes,133 and other transition metal complexes have been employed as hydrogermylation catalysts including those containing palladium.134,135... 

The principal developments in hydrostannation during the past decade are in the use of hydrides R2SnXH, where X is an electronegative group such as halide, carboxylate, or sulfonate, and in the use of the hydrides complexed to a transition metal, particularly palladium. 

A number of transition metal complexes will catalyze the dehydrogenative coupling of organotin tin hydrides, R SnI I, to give the distannanes, RjSnSnRj.443 These metals include palladium,449 gold,450, hafnium,451 yttrium, and ruthenium.452 The catalyst that is most commonly used is palladium, often as Pd(PPh3>4, and the most active catalysts appear to be the heterobimetallic Fe/Pd complexes, in which both metals are believed to be involved in the catalysis.443... 

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