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Soluble and polymer-anchored rhodium catalyst for carbonylation reaction: Kinetics and mechanism of diphenylurea formation
Mukherjee,Saha
, p. 255 - 262 (2002)
The catalytic conversion of PhNO2 to PhNHCONHPh by soluble and polymer-supported Rh catalysts in mild coordinating solvents containing methanol was studied. The carbonylation of nitrobenzene at low temperature and atmospheric or elevated pressure using soluble and polymer supported Rh species was presented. N,N′-diphenylurea (DPU) was the main product under moderate CO pressure while methyl-N-phenyl carbamate was formed predominantly as PCO and methanol concentration was increased. The highest conversion of PhNO2 (100%) to DPU was achieved at PCO = 60 atm and 80°C and methanol concentration of 6 M. A higher methanol concentration increased the yield of aniline at the cost of DPU. The in situ spectroscopic studies of the high-pressure catalysis established that the principal species observed in solution was [Rh(A)(PPh3)(COOCH3)(μ-OCH3 ]2 and that several intermediate steps were involved in the conversion of nitroarene to useful diarylurea in the presence of alcohol.