Carbonylation of Alcohols with Nickel Carbonyl Catalyst1

H Adkins, RW Rosenthal

Index: Adkins; Rosenthal Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1950 , vol. 72, p. 4550

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Abstract

Ever since Fischer4 proposed the direct combination of carbon monoxide and methanol to form acetic acid in the formulation of Synthol from carbon monoxide and hydrogen, workers in the field have tried to prepare acids by similar reactions. Car~ enter,~ Singh and Krase, 6 Hardy,'LoderI8 Larson, 9 and Simons and synthesized acids using alccrhols or olefins with carbon monoxide and acid type catalysts. In Germany Reppel 'developed a synthesis of ...