Fast and unprecedented chemoselective hydroformylation of acrylates with a fluoropolymer ligand in supercritical CO2
Yulai Hu,Weiping Chen,Anna M. Banet Osuna,Jon A. Iggo,Jianliang Xiao
Chemical Communications Pub Date : 03/13/2002 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/B201166B
Abstract
A fluorous polymeric phosphine, when combined with supercritical CO2 (scCO2) and rhodium, effects fast and highly chemoselective hydroformylation of acrylates, one of the least reactive olefins in hydroformylation reactions.