Organometallic Organometallic CatalystsCatalysts
Presenter : Saber Askari
Advisor :
Dr.Mirzaaghayan
May 2012
Contents :Contents : The basis for catalysisThe basis for catalysis
Catalytic Cycle
History
Mechanistic Concept
Homogeneous CatalysisHomogeneous Catalysis
Wilkinson’s Catalyst
Asymmetric hydrogenation
Hydroformylation
Monsanto Acetic acid Process
CATIVA Process Wacker Process
Heterogeneous CatalysisHeterogeneous Catalysis
Ziegler-Natta Catalyst
A Catalyst is a substance which speed up the rate of a reaction without itself being consumed.
A catalyst lowers the activation energy for a chemical reactionThe catalyzed reaction goes by a multistep mechanism in which the metal stabilizes intermediates that are stable only when bound to metal .
The basis for catalysis
Importance of catalysis
Many major industrial chemicals are prepared with the aid of catalysts Many fine chemicals are also made with the aid of catalysts– Reduce cost of production– Lead to better selectivity and less waste
Catalytic Cycle
The catalytically active species must have a vacant coordination site to allow the substrate to coordinate
Late transition metals are privileged catalysts (from 16e species easily)
In general , the total electron count alternates between 16 and 18One of the catalytic steps in the cycle is rate-determining
The establishment of a reaction mechanism is always a difficult task. It is even harder to definitively establish a catalytic cycle as all the reactions are going on in parallel!
History
Fundamental Reaction
Mechanistic Concept
Homogeneous CatalysisHomogeneous Catalysis
Wilkinson`s Catalyst : Olefin HydrogenationHydroformylation
Monsanto Acetic acid Process
Wacker Process
Heterogeneous CatalysisHeterogeneous Catalysis
Ziegler-Natta Catalysts
Homogeneous Homogeneous CatalysisCatalysis
Homogenous catalysts are used when selectivity is critical and product-catalyst separation problems can be solved.
Advantages :
Relatively high specificity
Relatively low reaction temperatures
far more easily studied from chemical & mechanistic aspects
far more active
Generally far more selective for a single product
Disadvantages :o far more difficult for achieving product/catalyst
separations
Catalytic steps in homogeneous reactions
Most catalytic process can be built up from a small number of different types of step– Association / dissociation of a ligand» requires labile complexes– Insertion and elimination reactions– Nucleophilic attack on a coordinated ligand– Oxidation and reduction of a metal center– Oxidative addition / reductive elimination
Wilkinson’s Catalyst:
RhCl(PPh3)3 was the first highly active homogeneous hydrogenation catalyst and was discovered by Geoffrey Wilkinson (Nobel prize winner for Ferrocene) in 1964.
Wilkinson’s Catalyst is a Rh(I) complex, Rh(PPh3)3Cl containing three phosphine ligands and one chlorine.
As a result of the olefin insertion (hydrogen migration) we obtain a Rh (III), 16e-, five coordinate species. A solvent occupies the sixth coordination site to take it to a 18e- species.
Reductive elimination occurs to give the hydrogenated product and the catalytically active species.
Bennett , IC , 1977 , 16 , 665
Olefin Hydrogenation using Wilkinson’s Catalyst
The complex RhCl(PPh3)3 (also known as Wilkinson’s catalyst) became the first highly active homogeneous hydrogenation catalyst that compared in rates with heterogeneous counterparts.
Wilkinson, J. Chem. Soc. (A) 1966, 1711
Hydrogenation mechanism
Steps: (1) H2 addition,(2) alkene addition, (3) migratory insertion, (4) reductive elimination of the alkane, regeneration of the catalyst
Halpern, Chem. Com. 1973, 629; J. Mol. Cat. 1976, 2, 65; Inorg. Chim. Acta. 1981, 50, 11
Wilkinson’s catalyst selectivity
The rate of hydrogenation depends on :(a) presence of a functional group in the vicinity of the C=C bond (b) degree of substitution of the C=C fragment
Hydrogenation is stereoselective:
Wilkinson’s catalyst selectivity
Rh preferentially binds to the least sterically hindered face of the olefin:
Cis-disubstituted C=C react faster than trans-disubstituted C=C:
Wilkinson’s catalyst selectivity
Schneider, JOC 1973, 38, 951
Cationic catalystsCationic catalystsCationic catalysts are the most active homogeneous hydrogenation catalysts developed so far:
Halpern’s mechanism of hydrogenation for cationic Rh catalysts with bidentate phosphines
Steps: (1)alkene addition, (2)(2) H2 addition,(3) migratory insertion, (4) reductive elimination of the alkane, regeneration of the catalyst.
Halpern, Science 1982, 217, 401.
Asymmetric hydrogenationAsymmetric hydrogenation
A variety of bidentate chiral diphosphines have been synthesized and used to make amino acids by hydrogenation of enamides:
Burk, Acc. Chem. Res 2000, 33, 363.
• Synthesis of derivative of L-dihydroxyphenylalanine
Catalysts similar to Wilkinson’s but using chiral phosphine ligands have been used for the asymmetric hydrogenation of small molecules .– Important in the fine chemicals /pharmaceutical industry
Noles and Nyori received the 2001 chemistry Nobel prize for the development of asymmetric hydrogenation catalysis
Chiral hydrogenation catalysts
Knowles, JACS 1975, 97, 2567.
Intermediates in Noyori’s transfer hydrogenation
Lanthanide Hydrogenation Catalysts
Tobin Marks reported the extraordinary activity of (Cp*2LuH)2 for the hydrogenation of alkenes and alkynes. The monometallic complex catalyzes the hydrogenation of 1-hexene with a TOF = 120,000 hr-1 at 1 atm H2, 25ºC!! This is one of the most active hydrogenation catalysts known.
Catalytically active speciesWith bidentate ligands, olefin coordination can precede oxidative addition of H2 (S = methanol, ethanol, acetone).
Halpern, JACS 1977, 99, 8055
Hydroformylation
Hydroformylation was discovered by Otto Roelen in 1938.
The reaction of an alkene with carbon monoxide and hydrogen, catalyzed by cobalt or rhodium salts to form an aldehyde is called hydroformylation.
Heck , JACS,1961,83,4023
Cobalt Phosphine modified catalyst
Cobalt Phosphine catalyst Mechanism
Monsanto Acetic acid Process
1960 basf 1966 monsanto
CATIVA CATIVA ProcessProcess
CATIVA CATIVA ProcessProcess
Wacker Wacker ProcessProcessThis is one of the earliest industrial processes developed in Germany for the conversion of ethylene into acetaldehyde.
Wacker process is more complex than the other catalytic processes described above.
Heterogeneous Heterogeneous CatalysisCatalysis
Heterogeneous catalysts dominate chemical and petrochemical industry: ~ 95% of all chemical processes use heterogenous catalysts.
Ziegler-Natta Catalysis for the Polymerization of olefins
Polymers are large molecules with molecular weights in the range of 104 to 106. These consist of small building units known as monomers
For example polyethylene is made up of ethylene monomersIn all of these cases a single monomer is repeated several times in the polymer chain. The number of repeating units determines the molecular weight of the polymer.
Giulio Natta (1903-1979), an Italian chemist, extended the method to other olefins like propylene and developed variations of the Ziegler catalyst based on his findings on the mechanism of the polymerization reaction.
The German chemist Karl Ziegler (1898-1973) discovered in 1953 that when TiCl3(s) and AlEt3 are combined together they produced an extremely active heterogeneous catalyst for the polymerization of ethylene at atmospheric pressure.
The Ziegler-Natta catalyst family includes halides of titanium, chromium, vanadium, and zirconium, typically activated by alkyl aluminum compounds
Ziegler and Natta received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in 1963.
There are typically three parts to most polymerizations:
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