- Efficient Palladium-Catalyzed Carbonylation of 1,3-Dienes: Selective Synthesis of Adipates and Other Aliphatic Diesters
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The dicarbonylation of 1,3-butadiene to adipic acid derivatives offers the potential for a more cost-efficient and environmentally benign industrial process. However, the complex reaction network of regioisomeric carbonylation and isomerization pathways, make a selective and direct transformation particularly difficult. Here, we report surprising solvent effects on this palladium-catalysed process in the presence of 1,2-bis-di-tert-butylphosphin-oxylene (dtbpx) ligands, which allow adipate diester formation from 1,3-butadiene, carbon monoxide, and methanol with 97 % selectivity and 100 % atom-economy under scalable conditions. Under optimal conditions a variety of di- and triesters from 1,2- and 1,3-dienes can be obtained in good to excellent yields.
- Yang, Ji,Liu, Jiawang,Ge, Yao,Huang, Weiheng,Ferretti, Francesco,Neumann, Helfried,Jiao, Haijun,Franke, Robert,Jackstell, Ralf,Beller, Matthias
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p. 9527 - 9533
(2021/03/08)
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- Distant functionalization via incorporation of thiophene moieties in electrophilic reactions promoted by samarium diiodide
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(matrix presented) Methyl thiophene-2-carboxylate, methyl 3-(thien-2-yl)acrylate, and methyl 5,2′-bithiophene-2-carboxylate were utilized as the synthetic equivalents of pentanoate 5-anion, pentanoate 4,5-dianion, heptanoate 7-anion, and nonanoate-8,9-dia
- Yang, Shyh-Ming,Nandy, Sandip Kumar,Selvakumar, Anandakathir Robinson,Fang, Jim-Min
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p. 3719 - 3721
(2007/10/03)
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