5557-31-3Relevant articles and documents
Synthesis of Ether-Diols with Low Polarity from Long-Chained Fatty Alcohols for Use in Block Copolymers
Huber, Veronika Ramona,Riepl, Herbert Mathias
, p. 433 - 442 (2019)
Diol-terminated polyethers are important intermediates for the manufacturing of block copolymers, but only a few polyethers other than polyethylene glycols are available on a technical scale. Most of them are highly polar. Natural fatty alcohols—converted to similar polyethers—should have a grossly reduced polarity because of a large separation of the oxygen atoms in the C18 chain. A synthesis sequence of polyethers with a longer carbon chain compared to the ethylene glycol-derived ethers based on commercially available fatty alcohols was designed for a future examination of the hydrophobic properties. Palladium-catalyzed cleavage of olefinic dialkyl carbonates results in carbon dioxide elimination and subsequent formation of ethers from an allyl-palladium cation. It could be shown that this process with fatty alcohols like undec-10-en-1-ol or oleyl alcohol can be run with appreciable yield. Although carbonates were obtained here using expensive chloroformates as starting materials, transesterification of dimethylcarbonates can be used similarly. Ruthenium-catalyzed acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) at both chain terminations then was applied to polymerize the ethers. Depending on the alkenyl chain, short oligomers with a degree of polymerization (DP) of about 5–8 seem to be formed according to gel permeation chromatography (GPC).
Contra-thermodynamic Olefin Isomerization by Chain-Walking Hydroboration and Dehydroboration
Bloomer, Brandon,Butcher, Trevor W.,Ciccia, Nicodemo R.,Conk, Richard J.,Hanna, Steven,Hartwig, John F.
supporting information, p. 1005 - 1010 (2022/02/10)
We report a dehydroboration process that can be coupled with chain-walking hydroboration to create a one-pot, contra-thermodynamic, short-or long-range isomerization of internal olefins to terminal olefins. This dehydroboration occurs by a sequence comprising activation with a nucleophile, iodination, and base-promoted elimination. The isomerization proceeds at room temperature without the need for a fluoride base, and the substrate scope of this isomerization is expanded over those of previous isomerizations we have reported with silanes.
Oxo 2-Adamantylidene Complexes of Mo(VI) and W(VI)
Boudjelel, Maxime,Zhai, Feng,Schrock, Richard R.,Hoveyda, Amir H.,Tsay, Charlene
supporting information, p. 838 - 842 (2021/04/09)
Molybdenum and tungsten oxo 2-adamantylidene (Adene) complexes that contain two nonafluoro-tert-butoxide (ORF9) ligands have been prepared through addition of 2-methylene-or 2-ethylideneadamantane to neophylidene or neopentylidene complexes. The isolated oxo complexes include W(O)(Adene)(ORF9)2(PPh2Me) (1W), W(O)(Adene)(ORF9)2 (2W), W(O)(Adene)(2,5-dimethylpyrrolide)2 (3W), W(O)(Adene)(2,5-dimethylpyrrolide)(2,6-dimesitylphenoxide) (4W), Mo(O)(Adene)(ORF9)2(PPhMe2) (1Mo), and Mo(O)(Adene)(ORF9)2 (2Mo). Compound 2W is a dimer that contains unsymmetrically bridging oxo ligands; it dissociates readily and reversibly into monomers, especially in the presence of a donor such as THF. In contrast, 2Mo is a monomer. Both 2W and 2Mo are remarkably stable thermally. The pale-blue complexes Mo(Adene)(ORF9)2Cl2 (5Mo) and W(Adene)(ORF9)2Cl2 (5W) are formed upon addition of PCl5 to 2Mo and 2W, respectively. The oxo complexes are reactive olefin metathesis initiators, while 5Mo and 5W are relatively poor initiators. We ascribe the thermal stability of 2Mo and 2W to resistance of the 2-adamantylidene ligands to couple bimolecularly, to the absence of an α-hydrogen in the alkylidene, or both.
Vortex Fluidic Ethenolysis, Integrating a Rapid Quench of Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts
Pye, Scott J.,Chalker, Justin M.,Raston, Colin L.
, p. 1138 - 1143 (2020/08/27)
Ruthenium-catalysed ethenolysis occurs in a vortex fluidic device (VFD)-a scalable, thin-film microfluidic continuous flow process. This process takes advantage of the efficient mass transfer of gaseous reagents into the dynamic thin film of liquid. Also reported is the rapid quenching of the ruthenium-based olefin metathesis catalyst by the addition of a saturated solution of N-acetyl-l-cysteine in MeCN, as a convenient alternative to previously reported quenching methods.