pH Effects on reaction rates in rhodium catalysed hydrogenation in water

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Torsten Malmström, Ola F. Wendt and Carlaxel Andersson


Abstract

The compound [Rh(DPPBTS)(NBD)][O3SCF3] 1 (DPPBTS = tetrasulfonated 1,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane, NBD = norbornadiene) has been prepared. On reaction of 1 with H2 different complexes [Rh(DPPBTS)(H2O)3(H)]2+, [Rh(DPPBTS)(H2O)2]+ or [Rh(DPPBTS)(OH)]2 are formed depending on the pH of the aqueous solution. Addition of α-acetamidoacrylic acid (AAA) to an aqueous solution of [Rh(DPPBTS)(H2O)2]+ affords a substrate complex in which the co-ordination mode of AAA is pH dependent, i.e. it co-ordinates via the double bond and the amide carbonyl at a pH below the pKa of AAA, or via the double bond and the carboxylate group at a pH higher than the pKa. The co-ordination mode has a dramatic effect on the rate of hydrogenation of AAA catalysed by 1, being extremely fast at a pH below the pKa of the substrate (270 000 mol h–1), but approximately 2000 times slower at a pH higher than the pKa. The hydrogenation rate is zero order in olefin concentration at pH 4.7 and a kH/kD isotope effect of 1.25 has been observed at pH 4.5. These observations indicate that the oxidative addition of H2 is the rate determining step in the hydrogenation using 1 as a catalyst, and that the mechanism is the same in water as in organic solvents.


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