Microwaves make hydroformylation a rapid and easy process

E Petricci, A Mann, A Schoenfelder, A Rota…

Index: Petricci, Elena; Mann, Andre; Schoenfelder, Angele; Rota, Andrea; Taddei, Maurizio Organic Letters, 2006 , vol. 8, # 17 p. 3725 - 3727

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Abstract

Hydroformylation of alkenes can be carried out in a few minutes under microwave activation at a relatively low pressure (40 psi) using commercially available catalysts and ligands. The 80 mL vial of a Discover microwave oven was connected to a cylinder of CO and H2, and after filling the reactor at 40 psi, a mixture of an alkene, the Wilkinson catalyst, and XANTPHOS was submitted to microwave irradiation giving, after 4 min, high conversion ...