Schoeps D, Buhr K, Dijkstra M, Ebert K, Plenio H. Batchwise and continuous organophilic nanofiltration of Grubbs-type olefin metathesis catalysts.
Chemistry 2009;
15:2960-5. [PMID:
19197933 DOI:
10.1002/chem.200802153]
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Abstract
A mass-tagged N-mesityl imidazolinium salt with four additional -CH(2)NCy(2) substituents was synthesized, leading to a molecular mass of nearly 1100 g mol(-1) in the corresponding carbene ligand. This mass-tagged ligand was used to generate the respective Grubbs II and Grubbs-Hoveyda type complexes. The catalytic activity of the latter complex was tested in several olefin metathesis reactions and found to be slightly superior to that of the related N-mesityl based complex. In batchwise solvent resistant nanofiltration experiments the ruthenium complex dissolved in toluene and following a metathesis reactions was efficiently retained (>99.8 %) by a single nanofiltration; the permeate contained less than 4 ppm of Ru. Equally efficient catalyst retention was observed in a membrane reactor utilized for the continuous synthesis of a RCM product.
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