Highly enantioselective hydroxycarbonylation and alkoxycarbonylation of alkenes using dipalladium complexes as precatalysts

TM Konrad, JA Fuentes, AMZ Slawin…

Index: Konrad, Tina M.; Fuentes, Jose A.; Slawin, Alexandra M. Z.; Clarke, Matthew L. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2010 , vol. 49, # 48 p. 9197 - 9200

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Abstract

Carboxylic acids make up a significant proportion of the commercially available chiral building blocks. An optimized process that produces enantioenriched carboxylic acids from readily available, cheap chemicals without the need for resolution is highly desired. One of the more important developments in catalysis in recent years has been the development of palladium catalyzed carbonylation of ethylene into a large scale highly productive ...