This work is addressed to the phenomenon of catalyst deactivation taking place during the repeated uses in the reaction of Suzuki-Miyaura (S-M) cross-coupling, which is widely applied in industry for C-C bond formation. Ligandless catalysts based on Pd(0) NPs supported on hyper-cross-linked polystyrene (HPS) of two types (non-functionalized and bearing tertiary amino groups) were studied in a model S-M reaction between 4-bromoanisole and phenylboronic acid. Synthesized catalysts were shown to be highly active under mild reaction conditions. HPS allows stabilization of Pd(0) NPs and prevents their agglomeration and detectable Pd leaching. However, the loss of catalytic activity was observed during recycling. The deactivation issue was assigned to the hydrophobic nature of non-functionalized HPS, which allowed a strong adsorption of cross-coupling product during the catalyst separation procedure. A thorough washing of Pd/HPS catalyst by hydrophobic solvent was found to improve to the big extent the observed catalytic activity, while the replacement of non-functionalized HPS by a one containing amino groups increased the catalyst stability at the expense of their activity.

This work is addressing the arenes’ hydrogenation—the processes of high importance for petrochemical, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Noble metal (Pd, Pt, Ru) nanoparticles (NPs) stabilized in hyper-cross-linked polystyrene (HPS) were shown to be active and selective catalysts in hydrogenation of a wide range of arenes (monocyclic, condensed, substituted, etc.) in a batch mode. HPS effectively stabilized metal NPs during hydrogenation in different medium (water, organic solvents) and allowed multiple catalyst reuses.

During the last decades, palladium nanoparticles (Pd(0) NPs) and Pd(II) compounds were shown to be attractive catalysts for fine organic synthesis. Nanostructured Pd(0) or Pd(II) catalysts have a relatively low environmental impact, but, at the same time, they are indispensable for such processes as Suzuki cross-coupling. This paper describes the preparation of Pd(0) or Pd(II) supported/embedded in hyper-cross-linked polystyrene (HPS) and compares their activity in Suzuki cross-coupling between phenylboronic acid and 4-bromoanisole. Obviously, the palladium charge (Pd(0) ↔ Pd(II)) changes continuously during the reaction catalytic cycle. It would seem that the use of the starting palladium in the form of Pd(0) or Pd(II) should not affect the reaction’s kinetic laws for both catalysts, but their special individuality is manifested between them. Nanoparticulate Pd(0) catalysts are stable during the reaction. In contrast, catalysts based on Pd(II) are extremely active in the initial period of the reaction, but then the “hot form” of the catalyst is rapidly converted into the form of Pd(0), whose activity is identical to that of the preliminarily reduced catalyst. This work discusses the possible nature of this phenomenon. A mathematical model for Suzuki cross-coupling reaction was suggested that was able to adequately describe experimental data. The level of reliability (R2) of the correlation between the experimental and calculated data was R2 = 0.97–0.99.

Данная работа посвящена исследованию влияния типа полимерной матрицы сверхсшитого полистирола на активность и стабильность палладиевых катализаторов кросс-сочетания Сузуки. Показано, что применение сверхсшитого полистирола, функционализированного третичными аминогруппами, может быть перспективным с точки зрения обеспечения стабильности катализатора при рециклах, однако для достижения 100 % конверсии арилгалогенида (4 - броманизола) требуется применение сильного избытка фенилбороновой кислоты и основания. Катализатор на основе нефункционализированного сверхсшитого полистирола обладает более высокой активностью и позволяет, используя полуторакратный избыток фенилбороновой кислоты, достичь полной конверсии 4 - броманизола за 60 мин реакции в мягких условиях (70 °С, растворитель - смесь этанола и воды в соотношении 5:1). Недостатком такой системы является сильная адсорбция продукта кросс-сочетания в гидрофобной полимерной матрице. This work is devoted to the study of the influence of the type of polymeric matrix of hyper-crosslinked polystyrene on activity and stability of palladium catalysts of Suzuki cross-coupling. The use of the hyper-crosslinked polystyrene functionalized with tertiary amino groups was shown to be promising in terms of ensuring of the catalyst stability during recycles, but in order to achieve 100 % conversion of aryl halide (4 - bromanisole) the use of strong excess of phenylboronic acid and of a base is required. The catalyst based on non-functionalized hyper-crosslinked polystyrene had higher activity and allowed achieving complete conversion of 4 - bromanisole during the reaction under mild conditions (70 °C, ethanol and water mixture is in the ratio of 5 : 1 as a solvent) while using 1,5 - fold excess of phenylboronic acid. However, strong adsorption of the cross-coupling product in a hydrophobic polymeric matrix was found to be a disadvantage of such a system.

In this work, for the first time, naphthalene (NA)-based polymers were synthesized by one-stage Friedel–Crafts crosslinking. The influence of NA functionalization by -OH, -SO3H, and -NO2 groups on the polymers’ porosity and distribution of the catalytically active phase (Pd) was studied. Synthesized catalytic systems containing 1 wt.% of Pd either in the form of Pd(II) species or Pd(0) nanoparticles supported on NA-based polymers were tested in a model reaction of Suzuki cross-coupling between 4-bromoanisole and phenylboronic acid under mild reaction conditions (60 °C, ethanol-water mixture as a solvent). These novel catalysts demonstrated high efficiency with more than 95% of 4-bromoanisole conversion and high selectivity (>97%) for the target 4-methoxybiphenyl.