Catalytic hydrocyanation of olefins by nickel(0) phosphite complexes - effects of Lewis acids
Catalytic hydrocyanation of olefins by nickel(0) phosphite complexes - effects of Lewis acids
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DOI:
10.1021/om00079a008
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发表时间:
1984
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影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
C. A. Tolman;W. Seidel;J. D. Druliner;P. Domaille
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作者:
C. A. Tolman;W. Seidel;J. D. Druliner;P. Domaille
Mechanistic studies on the addition of HCN to olefins using Ni [P (0-o-tolyl) 3] 3 catalyst show that the reactions proceed under mild conditions via (V-organo)-or (? j3-organo) nickel cyanide intermediates formed by the insertion of monoenes or dienes into the nickel-hydrogen bond of HNiL3CN. The RNiLmCN intermediates can be identified spectroscopically by NMR and IR in some cases. In the case of very electronegative R groups (formed for example from reactions of HNiL3CNwith C2F4 or acrylonitrile), reductive elimination does not occur, and the catalyst is poisoned for olefin hydrocyanation. Improved rates, catalystlifetimes, and product linearity can be obtained by the addition of Lewis acid (A) cocatalysts. Spectroscopic studies show that Lewis acids can coordinate strongly to the nitrogen lone-electron pairof hydride cyanide intermediates to form HNiL3CN-A complexes. An explanation of the effects of Lewis acids on hydrocyanation is proposed, which involves increasing the concentration of nickel in catalytic loop species [in the P (0-p-tolyl) 3 system], accelerating the rate of carbon-carbon coupling to form alkanenitriles from alkylnickel cyanidecomplexes and destabilizingrelatively bulky branched alkyl intermediates relative to less crowded linear ones.The addition of HCN to olefins by homogeneous nickel catalysts is one of the important success stories in the industrial application of homogeneous catalysis. In spite of the fact that adiponitrile has been produced on a large scale from butadiene for more than 10 years, 1 very little has been published in the scientific literature2 concerning the mechanism of the reactions, particularly the intriguing roles of the Lewis acid cocatalysts. We have described some related chemistry, including the dissociation of NiL4 complexes to NiL3, 3 the oxidative addition of HCN to NiL „complexes to give HNiLmCN4 (L= a phosphorus ligand,= 3 or 4, m= 2 or 3), and studies of reactions of olefins and nitriles to give (olefin) NiL25 and (RCN) NiL3 com-plexes. 50, 6 Studies on olefin hydrocyanation by homoge-neous nickel catalysts have recently been reported from