β-Alkyl Elimination: Fundamental Principles and Some Applications

Autor: Matthew E. O'Reilly, Saikat Dutta, Adam S. Veige
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Chemical Reviews. 116:8105-8145
ISSN: 1520-6890
0009-2665
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00054
Popis: This review describes organometallic compounds and materials that are capable of mediating a rarely encountered but fundamentally important reaction: β-alkyl elimination at the metal-Cα-Cβ-R moiety, in which an alkyl group attached to the Cβ atom is transferred to the metal or to a coordinated substrate. The objectives of this review are to provide a cohesive fundamental understanding of β-alkyl-elimination reactions and to highlight its applications in olefin polymerization, alkane hydrogenolysis, depolymerization of branched polymers, ring-opening polymerization of cycloalkanes, and other useful organic reactions. To provide a coherent understanding of the β-alkyl elimination reaction, special attention is given to conditions and strategies used to facilitate β-alkyl-elimination/transfer events in metal-catalyzed olefin polymerization, which provide the well-studied examples.
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