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Double bond migration, cyclohexadiene disproportionation and alkyne hydration by Dowex® 1-RhCl3 ion pair catalysts

✍ Scribed by Merav Setty-Fichman; Yoel Sasson; Jochanan Blum


Book ID
104423479
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
984 KB
Volume
126
Category
Article
ISSN
1381-1169

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✦ Synopsis


Polystyrene-supported ion pairs, generated from RhCl, and Dowex@ 1 anion exchangers were shown to be efficient, leach-proof and recyclable catalysts for double bond migration in allyhc compounds, disproportionation of 1,3-cyclohexadiene and hydration of aromatic acetylenes. At 50-70°C the isomerization of allylbenzene in aqueous EtOH was found to be first order in the substrate, and for catalyst:substrate ratio > 1:40, pseudo-zero order in the catalyst. The reaction rate proved to be effected by the electronic nature of the allylic compound and by the structural properties of the polymeric support. The disproportionation of the diene in aqueous THF was found to follow the Michaelis-Menten rate equation. Addition of water was shown to be specific for aromatic alkynes. Aliphatic acetylenes proved to undergo. under the same conditions, catalytic oligomerization.

While the rate of allylbenzene isomerization is mainly chemically controlled the disproportionation of I ,3-cyclohexadiene is governed chiefly by mass transfer processes. 0 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.