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Upstream product

• 141-82-2 malonic acid 
• 129649-05-4 7-benzyloxyheptan-1-ol 

Downstream Products

• 104876-10-0 9-(phenylmethoxy)nonan-1-ol 
• 157730-78-4 9-benzyloxy-1-nonanal 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Combined transition-metal- and organocatalysis: An atom economic C3 homologation of alkenes to carbonyl and carboxylic compounds

A combination of regioselective room-temperature/ambient-pressure hydroformylation (transitionmetal catalysis) and decarboxylative Knoevenagel reactions (organocatalysis) allowed for the development of an efficient, one-pot C3 homologation of terminal alkenes to (E)-α,β-unsaturated acids and esters, (E)-β,γ-unsaturated acids, (E)-α-cyano acrylic acids, and α,β-unsaturated nitriles. All reactions proceed under mild conditions, tolerate a variety of functional groups, and furnish unsaturated carbonyl compounds in good yields and with excellent regioand stereocontrol. Further, an iterative C2 homologation of (E)-α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acids is possible through a combination of decarboxylative hydroformylation employing a supramolecular catalyst followed by decarboxylative Knoevenagel condensation with an organocatalyst.

Practical synthesis of (E)-α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acids using a one-pot hydroformylation/decarboxylative Knoevenagel reaction sequence

Combining the regioselective room temperature/ambient pressure hydroformylation and a modification of the Doebner-Knoevenagel reaction allowed for the development of an efficient, one-pot procedure for the synthesis of (E)-α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acids. The reaction proceeds under mild conditions, tolerates a variety of functional groups and gives (E)-α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acids in good yields and with excellent regio-and stereocontrol. The practicability of this process has been demonstrated by a short protecting group-free synthesis of the queen honeybee pheromones 9-ODA[( E)-9-oxodec-2-enoic acid] and 9-HDA[( E)-9-hydroxydec-2-enoic acid].