Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
5 years ago

Efficient Palladium-Catalyzed Alkoxycarbonylation of Bulk Industrial Olefins Using Ferrocenyl Phosphine Ligands

Efficient Palladium-Catalyzed Alkoxycarbonylation of Bulk Industrial Olefins Using Ferrocenyl Phosphine Ligands
Xianjie Fang, Kaiwu Dong, Helfried Neumann, Anke Spannenberg, Rui Sang, Ralf Jackstell, Matthias Beller, Robert Franke
The development of ligands plays a key role and provides important innovations in homogeneous catalysis. In this context, we report a novel class of ferrocenyl phosphines for the alkoxycarbonylation of industrially important alkenes. A basic feature of our ligands is the combination of sterically hindered and amphoteric moieties on the P atoms, which leads to improved activity and productivity for alkoxycarbonylation reactions compared to the current industrial state-of-the-art ligand 1,2-bis((di-tert-butylphosphino)methyl)benzene). Advantageously, palladium catalysts with these novel ligands also enable such transformations without additional acid under milder reaction conditions. The practicability of the optimized ligand was demonstrated by preparation on >10 g scale and its use in palladium-catalyzed carbonylations on kilogram scale. Very active: A novel class of ferrocenyl phosphine ligands for the palladium-catalyzed alkoxycarbonylation of industrially important alkenes is reported. Compared to currently applied catalysts, the resulting palladium complexes showed much higher activity under milder conditions.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201700317

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