22104-69-4Relevant articles and documents
Modulation of N^N′-bidentate chelating pyridyl-pyridylidene amide ligands offers mechanistic insights into Pd-catalysed ethylene/methyl acrylate copolymerisation
ó Máille, Gearóid M.,Albrecht, Martin,Dall'Anese, Anna,Grossenbacher, Philipp,Milani, Barbara,Montini, Tiziano
, p. 6133 - 6145 (2021/05/19)
The efficient copolymerisation of functionalised olefins with alkenes continues to offer considerable challenges to catalyst design. Based on recent work using palladium complexes containing a dissymmetric N^N′-bidentate pyridyl-PYA ligand (PYA = pyridylidene amide), which showed a high propensity to insert methyl acrylate, we have here modified this catalyst structure by inserting shielding groups either into the pyridyl fragment, or the PYA unit, or both to avoid fast β-hydrogen elimination. While a phenyl substituent at the pyridyl side impedes catalytic activity completely and leads to an off-cycle cyclometallation, the introduction of an ortho-methyl group on the PYA side of the N^N′-ligand was more prolific and doubled the catalytic productivity. Mechanistic investigations with this ligand system indicated the stabilisation of a 4-membered metallacycle intermediate at room temperature, which has previously been postulated and detected only at 173 K, but never observed at ambient temperature so far. This intermediate was characterised by solution NMR spectroscopy and rationalises, in part, the formation of α,β-unsaturated esters under catalytic conditions, thus providing useful principles for optimised catalyst design.
Ruthenium Complex-Catalyzed Carbonylation of Allylic Compounds
Mitsudo, Take-aki,Suzuki, Nobuyoshi,Kondo, Teruyuki,Watanabe, Yoshihisa
, p. 7759 - 7765 (2007/10/02)
Allylic alkyl carbonates are carbonylated under 40 atm of carbon monoxide at 100-120 deg C in the presence of a catalytic amount of Ru3(CO)12/1,10-phenanthroline to give α,β- or β,γ-unsaturated esters in good to high yields.For example, cinnamyl methyl carbonate afforded the corresponding β,γ-unsaturated esters, methyl trans-4-phenyl-3-butenoate (1) in 93percent yield.The regioselectivity in the carbonylation of crotyl methyl carbonate is unusual and it depends on the carbon monoxide pressure.The more sterically hindered carbon (γ-carbon) is predominantly carbonylated at 20-50 atm.When the reaction of cinnamyl methyl carbonate was performed at elevated temperature (150 deg C) without 1,10-phenanthroline, the dimer of 1, dimethyl 3-benzyl-2-(trans-2-phenylvinyl)glutarate, was obtained in 56percent yield.In the presence of secondary amines, allylic alkyl carbonates were carbonylated mainly at α-carbon to give α,β- or β,γ-unsaturated amides in high yields.
