Issue 12, 2020

Continuous hydroformylation of 1-decene in an aqueous biphasic system enabled by methylated cyclodextrins

Abstract

For the first time, randomly methylated β-cyclodextrin was applied as the mass transfer agent in a continuous process. Considering the example of the Rh-catalyzed hydroformylation of 1-decene, process development was shown, where cyclodextrin was used together with a catalyst system that was continuously recovered and recycled using an aqueous biphasic system. In initial experiments, water-soluble and commercially available Rh/TPPTS and Rh/sulfoxantphos catalyst systems were scaled up from 50 ml into 1000 ml high-pressure autoclave systems to demonstrate their scalability. Both these systems were compared, and they afforded excellent chemoselectivity (>99%) toward the desired linear aldehyde product. In particular, higher regioselectivity (up to 31) was achieved for the Rh/sulfoxantphos system. Investigations regarding the long-term stability of the mass transfer agent and both catalyst systems were carried out in a continuously operated miniplant process. It was shown that the process could be successfully operated under the steady state for over 200 h with chemoselectivity of >97% toward the desired aldehyde product. Simultaneously, extremely low Rh leaching (total: 0.59%) was observed over the entire period of 200 h.

Graphical abstract: Continuous hydroformylation of 1-decene in an aqueous biphasic system enabled by methylated cyclodextrins

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Mar 2020
Accepted
09 Apr 2020
First published
14 Apr 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Green Chem., 2020,22, 3809-3819

Continuous hydroformylation of 1-decene in an aqueous biphasic system enabled by methylated cyclodextrins

K. U. Künnemann, L. Schurm, D. Lange, T. Seidensticker, S. Tilloy, E. Monflier, D. Vogt and J. M. Dreimann, Green Chem., 2020, 22, 3809 DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00820F

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