Hydrosilylation of aromatic nitriles promoted by solvated rhodium atom-derived catalysts

Citation
Am. Caporusso et al., Hydrosilylation of aromatic nitriles promoted by solvated rhodium atom-derived catalysts, J MOL CAT A, 150(1-2), 1999, pp. 275-285
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Physical Chemistry/Chemical Physics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS A-CHEMICAL
ISSN journal
13811169 → ACNP
Volume
150
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
275 - 285
Database
ISI
SICI code
1381-1169(199912)150:1-2<275:HOANPB>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
Rhodium metal particles, isolated as supported or unsupported powder starti ng from mesitylene solvated rhodium atoms, catalyse the hydrosilylation of aromatic nitriles to N,N-disilylamines in high conversion at 100 degrees C. Different hydrosilanes (HSiMe3, HSi(OEt)(3)) can be employed. In the case of cinnamonitrile, the chemoselectivity of the reaction to 2-trimethylsilyl -3-phenylpropionitrile and (E)- and (Z)-1-di(trimethylsilyl)amino-3-phenyl- 1-propene is strongly dependent on the reaction temperature. The commercial rhodium on gamma-Al2O3 catalyst is considerably less active and selective than the analogous catalyst prepared via Metal Vapour Synthesis (MVS) proba bly owing to the different dimension and distribution of the metal particle s in the two samples as shown by HRTEM analysis. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.