• Title/Summary/Keyword: Acrylonitrile

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Homogeneous Catalysis (VI). Hydride Route with Chloro Ligand Dissociation for the Hydrogenation of Acrylonitrile with trans-Chlorocarbonylbis(triphenylphosphine)iridium(I)

  • Moon, Chi-Jang;Chin, Chong-Shik
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.180-183
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    • 1983
  • The reaction of $IrClH_2(CO)(Ph_3P)_2$ ($Ph_3P$=triphenylphosphine) with acrylonitrile (AN) produces a stoichiometric amount of propionitrile (PN) at $100^{\circ}C$ under nitrogen, which suggests that the catalytic hydrogenation of AN to PN with $IrCl(CO)(Ph_3P)_2$ proceeds through the hydride route where the formation of the dihydrido complex, $IrClH_2(CO)(Ph_3P)_2$ is the initial step. The rate of the hydrogenation of AN to PN with $IrCl(CO)(Ph_3P)_2$ is decreased by the presence of excess $Cl^-$ in the reaction system, which suggests that $Cl^-$ is the dissociating ligand in the catalytic cycle. It has been also found that the rate of the hydrogenation increases with inercase both in hydrogen pressure and in concentration of free $Ph_3P$, and with decrease in AN concentration in the reaction system.

Homogeneous Catalysis (IV). Hydrogenation of Acrylonitrile with trans-Chlorocarbonylbis(triphenylphosphine)rhodium(I)

  • Woo, Jin-Chun;Chin, Chong-Shik
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.169-171
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    • 1983
  • It has been found that the acrylonitrile solution of trans-$RhCl(CO)(Ph_3P)_2$ produces propionitrile catalytically at $90^{\circ}C$ under $P_{H_2}$=3 atm. This catalytic hydrogenation proceeds only for a certain period of time producing ca. 50 moles of propionitrile per mole of the rhodium complex. The hydrogenation with trans-$RhCl(CO)(Ph_3P)_2$ in the presence of formaldehyde is much faster than in the absence of formaldehyde, and continues without a decrease in the rate for a prolonged period of time. It is suggested that the hydrogenation with trans-$RhCl(CO)(Ph_3P)_2$ proceeds through the unsaturated route initiated by the dissociation of CO from trans- $RhCl(CO)(Ph_3P)_2$ to give coordinatively unsaturated $RhCl(Ph_3P)_2$.