Issue 6, 2017
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Organic Chemistry Frontiers

A facile approach to ketones via Pd-catalyzed sequential carbonylation of olefins with formic acid†

Wenju Chang,a   Jie Dai,a   Jingfu Li,a   Yuan Shi,a   Wenlong Rena  and  Yian Shi*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Center for Multimolecular Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

b Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
E-mail: Yian.Shi@colostate.edu

Abstract

An effective palladium-catalyzed sequential carbonylation of olefins with formic acid is described. Ketones and the corresponding α,β-enones can be obtained with up to 90% yield. The reaction process is operationally simple and requires no toxic CO.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7QO00111H
Article type
Research Article
Submitted
09 Feb 2017
Accepted
22 Feb 2017
First published
22 Feb 2017

Org. Chem. Front., 2017,4, 1074-1078

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A facile approach to ketones via Pd-catalyzed sequential carbonylation of olefins with formic acid

W. Chang, J. Dai, J. Li, Y. Shi, W. Ren and Y. Shi, Org. Chem. Front., 2017, 4, 1074 DOI: 10.1039/C7QO00111H

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