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Interplay of bite angle and cone angle effects. A comparison between o-C6H4(CH2PR2)(PR′ 2) and o-C6H4(CH2PR 2)(CH2PR′2) as ligands for Pd-catalysed ethene hydromethoxycarbonylation
Fanjul, Tamara,Eastham, Graham,Floure, Joelle,Forrest, Sebastian J. K.,Haddow, Mairi F.,Hamilton, Alex,Pringle, Paul G.,Orpen, A. Guy,Waugh, Mark
, p. 100 - 115 (2013/02/22)
The following unsymmetrical diphosphines have been prepared: o-C 6H4(CH2PtBu2)(PR 2) where R = PtBu2 (L3a); PCg (L3b); PPh2 (L3c); P(o-C6H 4CH3)2 (L3d); P(o-C 6H4OCH3)2 (L3e) and o-C6H4(CH2PCg)(PCg) (L3f) where PCg is 6-phospha-2,4,8-trioxa-1,3,5,7-tetramethyladamant-6-yl. Hydromethoxycarbonylation of ethene under commercially relevant conditions has been investigated in the presence of Pd complexes of each of the ligands L 3a-f and the results compared with those obtained with the commercially used o-C6H4(CH2P tBu2)2 (L1a). The Pd complexes of the bulkiest ligands L3a, L3b and L3f are highly active catalysts but the Pd complexes of L3c, L3d and L3e are completely inactive. The crystal structures of the complexes [PtCl2(L1a)] (1a) and [PtCl2(L 3a)] (2a) have been determined and show that the crystallographic bite angles and cone angles are greater for L1a than L3a. Solution NMR studies show that the seven-membered chelate in 1a is more rigid than the six-membered chelate in 2a. Treatment of [PtCl(CH3)(cod)] with L3a-f gave [PtCl(CH3)(L3a-f)] as mixtures of 2 isomers 3a-f and 4a-f. The ratio of the products 4:3 ranges from 100:1 to 1:20, the precise proportion is apparently governed by a balance of two competing factors, steric bulk and the antisymbiotic effect. The palladium complexes [PdCl(CH3)(L3b)] (5b/6b) and [PdCl(CH 3)(L3c)] (5c/6c) react with labelled 13CO to give the corresponding acyl species [PdCl(13COCH3)(L 3b)] (7b/8b) and [PdCl(13COCH3)(L 3c)] (7c/8c). Treatment of [PdCl(13COCH3)(L)] with MeOH gave CH313COOMe rapidly when L = L3b but very slowly when L = L3c paralleling the contrasting catalytic activity of the Pd complexes of these two ligands. The Royal Society of Chemistry 2013.
