Abstract: The reaction of carbon monoxide with a variety of cyclic and acyclic olefins at 2-3 atm in methanol in the presence of palladium (I1) chloride and copper (I1) chloride as reoxidant was investigated. Linear a-olefins afforded predominantly (3-methoxy esters under neutral conditions and diesters in the presence of base. Nearly quantitative yields (based on olefin) of these products were realized when greater than stoichiometric amounts of ...
[Toda, Shiho; Miyamoto, Masanori; Kinoshita, Hideki; Inomata, Katsuhiko Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1991 , vol. 64, # 12 p. 3600 - 3606]
