With nine million tons of oxoproducts produced worldwide per year, the hydroformylation of olefins is the largest volume application of homogeneous catalysis in industry.[1, 2] Thus, in the presence of a suitable transition-metal catalyst, CO and hydrogen are added across the carbon–carbon double bond of an alkene to give the homologated aldehydes in complete accord with the criteria of atom economy.[3] The aldehydes formed are useful functional ...
