Transition metal substituents, effect

Further work by Anson s group sought to find the effects that would cause the four-electron reaction to occur as the primary process. Studies with ruthenated complexes [[98], and references therein], (23), demonstrated that 7T back-bonding interactions are more important than intramolecular electron transfer in causing cobalt porphyrins to promote the four-electron process over the two-electron reaction. Ruthenated complexes result in the formation of water as the product of the primary catalytic process. Attempts to simulate this behavior without the use of transition-metal substituents (e.g. ruthenated moieties) to enhance the transfer of electron density from the meso position to the porphyrin ring [99] met with limited success. Also, the use of jO-hydroxy substituents produced small positive shifts in the potential at which catalysis occurs. 

For both 104 and 105, values of AG (RI) 17 kcal/mol and AG (BS) 18 kcal/mol have been determined from NMR measurements (180). Analogous processes have been studied extensively in cyclooctatetraenes bearing other substituents (181). By way of comparison, ethoxycyclooctatetraene has AG (RI) = 12.5 kcal/mol and AGf(BS) = 16.0 kcal/mol (182). Values for other monosubstituted derivatives (118) differ by +2 kcal/mol and more heavily substituted compounds have substantially higher barriers for both processes, due to steric buttressing effects in the planar intermediate (181). Thus, while the transition metal substituent in 104 or 105 does increase the barriers for RI and BS relative to smaller substituents, this effect is not large enough to prevent observation of both these processes on the NMR time scale (180). Prior to our work, the effect of polyfluorination on the energetics of these isodynamic processes had not been evaluated. 

Among transition-metal-substituted silicon compounds, the class of metallosilanols is of particular interest, since electron-rich transition metal substituents have a strong stabilizing effect on the Si-OH group. Unlike most organosilanols, the metallosilanols show no tendency towards self-condensation and even compounds with two or three Si-OH groups have been isolated. In the past two pathways for the synthesis of ferriosilanols have been established (Scheme 1). 

Pyrazole and its C-methyl derivatives acting as 2-monohaptopyrazoles in a neutral or slightly acidic medium give M(HPz) X, complexes where M is a transition metal, X is the counterion and m is the valence of the transition metal, usually 2. The number of pyrazole molecules, n, for a given metal depends on the nature of X and on the steric effects of the pyrazole substituents, especially those at position 3. Complexes of 3(5)-methylpyrazole with salts of a number of divalent metals involve the less hindered tautomer, the 5-methylpyrazole (209). With pyrazole and 4- or 5-monosubstituted pyrazoles M(HPz)6X2... 

The scope of the present paper is limited to those cyclopentadienyl ligands that contain more than two bulky substituents and transition metal complexes derived thereof in order to be able to focus on the specific effects of these ligand systems. A selection of some mono-substituted cyclopentadienyl ligands will be treated also. Among the numerous reviews highlighting special aspects of cyclopentadienyl... 

Similar correlations of orbital interactions with substituent effects were also found in additions of alkenes to substituted carbenes and of N2 to transition metal complexes (see Zollinger, 1983 b, 1990). 

The Taft relation Ej 2 = P 2a + x, which was found to hold for organic compounds and some transition metal complexes can also be of use here (37). Phenyl compounds do not fit the relation. This is probably due to a mesomeric effect that depends on the dihedral angle between the phenyl and the NCS2 planes. For bulky substituents deviations are also found which could be caused by widening of the CNC angle, changing the hybridisation of the N. The low values of p indicate that the M.O. s involved in the electron transfer have little ligand contribution. 

Some of the vinyl monomers polymerized by transition metal benzyl compounds are listed in Table IX. In this table R represents the rate of polymerization in moles per liter per second M sec-1), [M]0 the initial monomer concentration in moles per liter (M) and [C]0 the initial concentration of catalyst in the same units. The ratio i2/[M]0[C]0 gives a measure of the reactivity of the system which is approximately independent of the concentration of catalyst and monomer. It will be observed that the substitution in the benzyl group is able to affect the polymerization rate significantly, but the groups that increase the polymerization rate toward ethylene have the opposite effect where styrene is concerned. It would also appear that titanium complexes are more active than zirconium. The results with styrene and p-bromostyrene suggests that substituents in the monomer, which increase the electronegative character of the double bond, reduces the polymerization rate. The order of reactivity of various olefinically unsaturated compounds is approximately as follows ... 

In scrutinizing the various proposed reaction sequences in Eq. (26), one may classify the behavior of carbene complexes toward olefins according to four intimately related considerations (a) relative reactivities of various types of olefins (b) the polar nature of the metal-carbene bond (c) the option of prior coordination of olefin to the transition metal, or direct interaction with the carbene carbon and (d) steric factors, including effects arising from ligands on the transition metal as well as substituents on the olefinic and carbene carbons. Information related to these various influences is by no means exhaustive at this point. Consequently, some apparent contradictions exist which seem to cast doubt on the relevance of various model compound studies to conventional catalysis of the metathesis reaction, a process which unfortunately involves species which elude direct structural determination. 

Brunner et al. [26] synthesized and applied so-called dendrizymes in enan-tioselective catalysis. These catalysts are based on dendrimers which have a functionalized periphery that carries chiral subunits, (e.g. dendrons functionalized with chiral menthol or borneol ligands). The core phosphine donor atoms can be complexed to (transition) metal salts. The resultant dendron-enlarged 1,2-diphosphino-ethane (e.g. 16, see Scheme 17) Rh1 complexes were used as catalysts in the hydrogenation of acetamidocinnamic acid to yield iV-acetyl-phenylalanine (Scheme 17) [26]. A small retardation of the hydrogenation of the substrate was encountered, pointing to an effect of the meta-positioned dendron substituents. No significantly enantiomerically enriched products were isolated. However, a somewhat improved enantioselectivity (up to 10-11% e.e.) was... 

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