Remote Control of Regio??and Diastereoselectivity in the Hydroformylation of Bishomoallylic Alcohols with Catalytic Amounts of a Reversibly Bound Directing Group

CU Grünanger, B Breit

Index: Gruenanger, Christian U.; Breit, Bernhard Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2010 , vol. 49, # 5 p. 967 - 970

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Abstract

The hydroformylation of olefins is the largest volume application of homogeneous catalysis in industry with about 9 million tons of oxo products produced worldwide each year.[1, 2] In this transformation alkenes are reacted with synthesis gas in the presence of a metal catalyst to furnish the homologated aldehydes—a conversion in complete accord with the criteria of atom economy.[3] The aldehydes formed are useful functional groups suitable for further ...