Are heterogeneous catalysts precursors to homogeneous catalysts?
Are heterogeneous catalysts precursors to homogeneous catalysts?
复制标题
DOI:
10.1021/ja016877v
复制
发表时间:
2001-10-17
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
Reider, PJ
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Davies, IW;Matty, L;Reider, PJ
Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts offer their own distinct advantages. 1 Heterogeneous catalysts have an advantage that at the end of reaction the catalyst can be removed by simple filtration. In principle the product is un-contaminated with a transition metal or ligand and allows the catalyst to be recycled into the next reaction. 2 While the distinction between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis seems well-defined, in many cases there may be leaching of the transition metal into solution. In these instances the question that always remains is whether the catalytic activity resides with the leached metal. In other situations, it is unclear whether a “release and capture” of the transition metal catalyst has occurred. We report a simple unambiguous test to determine the presence of a homogeneous catalyst and demonstrate its application in three prototypical reactions. Not only does this method clarify the phase of the catalytically active species it also allows additional mechanistic information to be obtained regarding the system. Our initial studies were prompted by the carbonylation of 1 to give the carbomethoxycyclopentenone 2 (eq 1). Although this transformation worked quite well with the conventional homogeneous catalyst Pd (PPh3) 2Cl2, 3 a heterogeneous catalyst was sought for this reaction to simplify product isolation. In many of our programs, the fate of the catalyst is especially important during processing since the acceptable level of transition metal residuals is highly regulated in pharmaceutical products. Pd/C has been used for a number of palladium-catalyzed reactions. 4, 5 After parallel catalyst screening, the optimal conditions were identified at small scale. 6 Using these conditions at 1 mol scale (1 mol% Pd/C, 60 C, 80 psig CO, 1 M DMA, 2 equiv Bu3N, 5 equiv MeOH, 10 h) led to the formation of 2 in 98-99% yield. 7 There was no trace of reduction, dimerization, or amide formation8 and mass balance was accounted for by two low-level impurities (see