Chemical communications

Rh (i)-catalyzed CO gas-free cyclohydrocarbonylation of alkynes with formaldehyde to α, β-butenolides

K Fuji, T Morimoto, K Tsutsumi, K Kakiuchi

Index: Fuji, Koji; Morimoto, Tsumoru; Tsutsumi, Ken; Kakiuchi, Kiyomi Chemical Communications, 2005 , # 26 p. 3295 - 3297

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Abstract

Methods for incorporating carbon monoxide into simple organic substrates for the construction of value-added chemicals can take advantage of the availability of a wide variety of transition metal catalysts. 1 However, the methods suffer from one major disadvantage, namely the difficulty of handling toxic, gaseous carbon monoxide. Considerable attention has been paid to developing catalytic CO gas-free carbonylation reactions, because of their experimental simplicity ...