Issue 23, 2020

Recycling of two molecular catalysts in the hydroformylation/aldol condensation tandem reaction using one multiphase system

Abstract

Tandem reactions are of great importance to efficiently execute multiple conversions in one synthesis step. Herein we present a multiphase system for the hydroformylation/aldol condensation, which is able to recycle both optimized catalysts multiple times. The system consists of an organometallic rhodium/sulfoXantphos hydroformylation catalyst and basic NaOH as aldol condensation initiator, which are both immobilized in a polyethylene glycol phase. Under reaction conditions, NaOH is converted to sodium formate, which is still able to catalyse the aldol condensation. The reaction and recycling are demonstrated by the conversion of 1-pentene to the corresponding aldol product in a recycling experiment. During nine consecutive runs, no significant loss of activity is found with an overall TON of 8700 in regard to the rhodium catalyst and an average rhodium leaching of only of 0.07% per run is observed.

Graphical abstract: Recycling of two molecular catalysts in the hydroformylation/aldol condensation tandem reaction using one multiphase system

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Oct 2020
Accepted
05 Nov 2020
First published
06 Nov 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Green Chem., 2020,22, 8444-8451

Recycling of two molecular catalysts in the hydroformylation/aldol condensation tandem reaction using one multiphase system

M. Strohmann, J. T. Vossen, A. J. Vorholt and W. Leitner, Green Chem., 2020, 22, 8444 DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03392H

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