Kinetics of the ring-opening carbonylation of ethyloxirane with hydrido tetracarbonyl cobalt

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0022-328X(91)80163-E

The rate of CO uptake in the reaction of HCo(CO)4 with ethyloxirane, which gives (3-hydroxypentanoyl)cobalt tetracarbonyl as the major product in an n-octane/methyl isobutyl ketone solvent mixture at 15 deg C, is first order with respect to HCo(CO)4 and e