Catalytic ionic hydrogenations

Catalytic ionic hydrogenation of ketones occurs by proton transfer to a ketone from a cationic metal dihydride, followed by hydride transfer from a neutral metal hydride. This contrasts with traditional catalysts for ketone hydrogenation that require binding of the ketone to the metal and subsequent insertion of the ketone into a M-H bond. Ionic hydrogenation catalysts based on the inexpensive metals molybdenum and tungsten have been developed based on mechanistic understanding of the individual steps required in the catalytic reaction.     

Mitsunobu Reactions Catalytic in Phosphine and a Fully Catalytic System

The Mitsunobu reaction is renowned for its mild reaction conditions and broad substrate tolerance, but has limited utility in process chemistry and industrial applications due to poor atom economy and the generation of stoichiometric phosphine oxide and hydrazine by‐products that complicate purification. A catalytic Mitsunobu reaction using innocuous reagents to recycle these by‐products would overcome both of these shortcomings. Herein we report a protocol that is catalytic in phosphine (1‐phenylphospholane) employing phenylsilane to recycle the catalyst. Integration of this phosphine catalytic cycle with Taniguchi’s azocarboxylate catalytic system provided the first fully catalytic Mitsunobu reaction.     

铁酸盐催化剂上乙醇的催化燃烧

用共沉淀法制备了N i,Co,Cu等的铁酸盐复合氧化物催化剂,并采用XRD、IR等手段对催化剂进行了表征,结果表明具有尖晶石结构的CuFe2O4复合氧化物催化剂对乙醇催化燃烧反应具有较高活性和选择性,Co部分掺杂的CuFe2O4其活性和选择性有所提高,乙醇可在约229℃达到完全转化,燃烧产物中没有发现乙醛副产物.     

Catalytic Selective Synthesis

Complete control of the product of a catalytic reaction can be achieved on the basis of catalyst structure, even when the reaction conditions are nearly identical. Catalyst‐controlled selectivity is well established for enantioselective catalysis but less formulated for catalytic regio‐, chemo‐, or product‐selective reactions. This Review describes selective transformations of the same starting materials into two or more different products simply by the choice of catalyst. By collecting and highlighting examples of selective catalysis, we hope that the field will be encouraged by the progress that has been made while bringing attention to unmet needs in the design and mechanistic understanding of selective catalysts.     

Catalytic reactions-II Activation

The activation of the homogeneous catalytic reactions used in analysis is discussed. The use of activators in catalytic methods permits increase in their sensitivity by 2-4 orders of magnitude and improvement in their selectivity as well. Many different mechanisms of activation are discussed and used as illustrations of the principles for choice of an appropriate activator.     

Catalytic chameleon dendrimers

Dendrimers with boronic ester end-groups and an iron porphyrin core were synthesized and characterized. The dendrimer termini were reversibly exchanged by the addition of appropriate diol molecules. According to molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, the exchange of termini may lead to changes in the conformational behavior of the dendrimer, specifically regarding the average position of the end groups relative to the core. The spatial steric disposition attained with different termini was shown to significantly affect epoxidation reaction activity and selectivity with various alkenes, thus allowing for an original way to control and adjust catalytic behavior under alternating environments.     

催化抗体的催化效率优化和展望

综述了改进催化抗体催化效率的可能方法 ,包括较好的半抗原、广泛的筛选、工程化及选择优化等     

填料型固体酸的制备及其催化性能

用阳极氧化法制备了填料式Al₂O₃-Al载体,经浸渍H₂SO₄后再焙烧制得SO₄^2-/Al₂O₃-Al固体酸催化剂.用SEM,BET,XRD和NH3-TPD等手段对其进行了表征,结果显示,载体Al₂O₃膜为无定形结构,SO₄^2-/Al₂O₃-Al为中等酸强度的固体酸.用乙酸-乙醇酯化催化反应评估了该固体酸的催化性能,显示出催化剂具有较高的催化活性,且稳定性较好.     

Catalytic chain-breaking pyridinol antioxidants

When assayed for their capacity to inhibit azo-initiated peroxidation of linoleic acid in a water/chlorobenzene two-phase system, tellurium-containing 3-pyridinols were readily regenerable by N-acetylcysteine contained in the aqueous phase. The best inhibitors quenched peroxyl radicals more efficiently than alpha-tocopherol, and the duration of inhibition was limited only by the availability of the thiol reducing agent. The compounds were also found to catalyze reduction of hydrogen peroxide in the presence of thiol reducing agent.     

Catalytic hydroxylation of polypropylenes

The regioselective functionalization of both model and commercial polypropylenes of varying tacticity has been conducted by a rhodium-catalyzed functionalization of the methyl C-H bonds of the polymer with diboron reagents. Rhodium-catalyzed borylation of the polypropylenes, followed by oxidation of the boron-containing material, produced polymers containing 0.2-1.5% hydroxymethyl side chains. Both the number-average molecular weights and molecular weight distributions of the polypropylenes were essentially unchanged after the catalytic and oxidative functionalization process. The efficiency of the borylation process was affected by the molecular weight of the polymer, the steric hindrance around the methyl groups, and the ratio of the diboron reagent to the monomer repeat unit. The hydroxylated derivative of the commercial isotactic polypropylene was used as macroinitiator for the aluminum-mediated ring-opening polymerization of epsilon-caprolactone to prepare polypropylene-graft-polycaprolactone. This graft copolymer was an effective compatibilizer for melt blends of polypropylene and polycaprolactone.     

Catalytic Enantioselective Aza-pinacol Rearrangement

The first catalytic enantioselective asymmetric aza-pinacol rearrangement is reported. The reactions are catalyzed by a chiral phosphoric acid and proceed via a highly organized transition state involving a cyclic aza-ortho-xylylene intermediate to afford the indoline structures with good to excellent enantioselectivity. The synthetic utility of this method is demonstrated by the asymmetric synthesis of a key intermediate to the natural product minfiensine and the identification of a chiral lead compound to repress antibiotic resistance.     

Catalytic fire retardant nanocomposites

In this paper the chemical activity of carbon nanotubes and polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane during thermal degradation and combustion of polymer nanocomposites is addressed. Indeed, polymer-nanofiller systems may exhibit chemical effects capable of thermal stabilisation of polymers as well as reduction of combustion rate and heat released, owing to catalytic effects induced by the nanofillers at high temperature.Carbon nanotubes in the presence of oxygen are shown to promote oxidative dehydrogenation in polyethylene with production of a stable surface layer of carbon char that provides an effective oxygen barrier effect. A similar action is performed by metal-containing polysilsesquioxanes dispersed in polypropylene.With either carbon nanotubes or metal POSS, partial carbonisation of the polymer matrix occurs during combustion, subtracting part of the organic polymer from combustion, targeting one of the major fire retardancy aim.     

Catalytic phosphorylation of polyfluoroalkanols

Phosphorylation of α-polyfluoroalkylbenzyl alcohols by an excess of phenylphosphonic dichloride in the presence of Mg or CaCl₂ as the catalyst givesO-(α-polyfluoroalkylbenzyl) phenylphosphonochloridates (63–79% yield). The reaction proceeds stereoselectivity, and the phosphonochloridates obtained are mixtures of two diastereomers with predominance (approximately by 10%) of one of them. For Part 15, see Ref. 1. Deceased. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 1776–1779, September, 1998.     

大分子正十六烷的催化裂化

以具有新型多级孔中空薄壳结构的ZSM-5分子筛（Gel-ZSM-5）作为催化剂,正十六烷作为探针分子,研究了催化剂的孔道结构及酸性对大分子催化裂化反应的影响.实验结果表明,该催化剂中的介孔、大孔多级结构非常有利于大分子反应物、中间产物以及结焦物在其表面及内部的快速传输,从而大幅提高催化转化率并延长了催化剂寿命;另外,催化剂多级孔表面的大量酸性位点可以显著提高针对大分子的催化反应性能,并且明显改善了产物的选择性.在较短的反应时间下,这种构效关系体现得更加显著.因此,合理的酸性分布和多级中空薄壳孔道结构将赋予催化剂在大分子催化裂化中具有更好的催化活性、选择性及更长的催化寿命,为设计新型高效催化剂提供了依据.     

Catalytic alkylation of benzofurans

The alkylation of benzofuran by isobutylene and tert-butyl alcohol in an autoclave in a flow system on ZnCl₂ applied to Al₂O₃ was studied. The major reaction products are 2- and 3-tert-tert-butylbenzofurans, the ratio of which depends on the conditions used to carry out the reaction. The product yield depends on the acidity of the catalyst used. The predominant formation of 2-tert-butylbenzofuran in the flow system is explained by the isomerization of 3-tert-butylbenzofuran via an intermolecular mechanism.See [1,2] for communications I and II.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 8, pp. 1020–1022, August, 1971.     

不对称催化环氧化反应

本文综述了不对称催化环氧化体系的研究进展。重点评述了Sharpless-Kat-suki不对称环氧化反应的特点、机理、新进展与应用,综合分析了由手性(salen)Mn(Ⅲ)催化剂对非功能化烯烃所创建的突出成果与应用前景。     

Catalytic diastereoselective petasis reactions

Multicomponent Petasis reactions: The first diastereoselective Petasis reaction catalyzed by chiral biphenols that enables the synthesis of syn and anti?β-amino alcohols in pure form has been developed. The reaction exploits a multicomponent approach that involves boronates, α-hydroxy aldehydes, and amines.     

Catalytic Antibodies

The vast binding repertoire of the immune system has been exploited for the generation of tailor-made biological catalysts. A number of strategies have been developed to generate catalytic antibodies that carry out a wide range of reactions with exquisite specificities. The generation and characterization of these novel catalysts is not only providing new insights into the nature of biological recognition and catalysis, but may also lead to novel catalysts for applications in chemistry, biology, and medicine.     

Catalytic enantioselective decarboxylative protonation

We report a highly enantioselective, general catalytic system for the facile synthesis of tertiary stereocenters by protonation adjacent to cyclic ketones. The method relies on catalytic decarboxylative protonation of readily accessible racemic quaternary beta-ketoesters. A range of substituted cycloalkanone compounds can be accessed through this process with high levels of enantioselectivity.     

Catalytic Hydroaminoalkylation

Excellent couplings : Recent developments in the metal‐catalyzed C? H activation of sp³ centers in an α position relative to an amine nitrogen atom are presented. Their reaction with alkenes to give alkylamines (hydroaminoalkylation) is also summarized (see general scheme).