Phosphabenzene–rhodium catalysts for the efficient hydroformylation of terminal and internal olefins

Abstract

The use of rhodium-catalysts modified with bulky phosphabenzenes as π-acceptor ligands as highly efficient hydroformylation catalysts for terminal and internal olefins is reported, and a catalytically active phosphabenzene complex has been structurally characterized by X-ray crystallography.

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