Hydroformylation of epoxides catalyzed by cobalt and hemilabile P–O ligands

R Weber, U Englert, B Ganter, W Keim…

Index: Weber; Englert; Ganter; Keim; Moethrath Chemical Communications, 2000 , # 15 p. 1419 - 1420

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Abstract

Previously, chelating diphosphine ligands have been reported for the cobalt catalyzed hydroformylation of epoxides. 3 For the rhodium catalyzed hydroformylation of olefins and for carbonylation reactions P–O ligands have been found to be superior to their phosphine analogues. 4 This fact prompted us to apply P–O ligands to the hydroformylation of epoxides. To the best of our knowledge, P–O ligands have not been reported for the hydroformylation of epoxides, whereas ...