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Alkene hydration

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Improved Synthesis, Separation, Transition Metal Coordination And Reaction Chemistry Of A New Binucleating Tetraphosphine Ligand, Ekaterina Kalachnikova Jan 2014

Improved Synthesis, Separation, Transition Metal Coordination And Reaction Chemistry Of A New Binucleating Tetraphosphine Ligand, Ekaterina Kalachnikova

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The first chapter of this dissertation involves discussion of alkene hydration and oxidative cleavage reactions catalyzed by late transition metal complexes. Previously reported results are summarized here. Mechanistic aspects of alkene hydration catalyzed by late transition metal complexes are also explained. The second part of Chapter 1 focuses on motivation for using bimetallic nickel phosphine complexes as possible catalytic precursors for alkene hydration. Chapter 2 describes studies into alkene hydration in the presence of catalytic amounts of dinickel phosphine complexes based on linear tetraphosphine ligand, PEt2CH2CH2(Ph)PCH2P(Ph)CH2CH2PEt2, et,ph-P4. Under conditions tested no alcohol products were detected. However we have observed formation …


Investigations Into Alkene Hydration And Alkene Oxidation Catalysis, William Schreiter Jan 2013

Investigations Into Alkene Hydration And Alkene Oxidation Catalysis, William Schreiter

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Bimetallic Ni complexes Ni21M and Ni21R and monometallic transition metal complexes were investigated as possible alkene hydration catalysts under a multitude of different reaction conditions. All attempts at performing this catalytic reaction failed to give any alcohol products. Catalytic screening experiments were conducted using a mixture of racemic-et,ph-P4 and meso-et,ph-P4, 1M and 1R, and various transition metals. These experiments gave several different products including 1-phenylethanol from styrene. During the course of the hydration experiments, an aldehyde product was identified from experiments conducted with the bimetallic complexes in air. Experiments have shown that the aldehyde is produced from the oxidative cleavage …