Marcel Schreuder Goedheijt, Joost N. H. Reek, Paul C. J. Kamer and Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen
The application of a water-soluble diphosphine with a xanthene-type backbone in the biphasic palladium-catalysed hydroxycarbonylation reaction of alkenes leads to the selective formation of carboxylic acids.