Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Roser Pleixats.
This Account presents the fast-growing field of catalysis by transition metal nanoparticles, its present situation concerning scope and limitations, as well as future prospects. The Account is limited to reactions involving carbon-carbon bond formation.
Palladium nanoparticles can be prepared by reduction of palladium(II) chloride in the presence of different compounds featuring long perfluorinated carbon chains.
Several intermediates of the oxidative coupling of areneboronic acids to afford biaryls have been identified by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Knowledge has been gained about the steps occurring after the biaryl formation and leading to the recovery of the catalytic species.
Acidic anilines such as diphenylamine, phenothiazine, and nitroanilines are efficiently allylated under palladium catalysis using allyl carbonates as allylating reagents. A stereochemical study of the reactions of ethyl cis-5-methyl-2-cyclohexenylcarbonate with 4-nitro- and 2,4-dinitroaniline was performed. Bidentate phosphines as stabilizing ligands gave clean retention of configuration whereas triphenylphosphine permitted cis-trans isomerization of the allylic carbonate, the allylation reactions occurring under Curtin-Hammet preequilibrium conditions.
13C NMR differences of chemical shifts (delta(X) - delta(H)) of allyl carbon atoms in a series of trans-(1-(diphenylphosphino)-2-(dimethylamino)ethane)(eta(3)-1-arylallyl)palladium tetrafluoroborates, X ranging from NO(2) to OMe, correlate very well with sigma Hammett constants for C-1 and with sigma(+) for C-3, this carbon atom being in a trans relationship with the positively charged nitrogen atom.