Issue 31, 2015
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

An atom-economic approach to carboxylic acids via Pd-catalyzed direct addition of formic acid to olefins with acetic anhydride as a co-catalyst†

Yang Wang,a   Wenlong Rena  and  Yian Shi*abc  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Center for Multi-molecular Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
E-mail: Yian.Shi@colostate.edu

b Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

c Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA

Abstract

An effective Pd-catalyzed hydrocarboxylation of olefins using formic acid with acetic anhydride as a co-catalyst is described. A variety of carboxylic acids are obtained in good yields with high regioselectivities under mild reaction conditions without the use of toxic CO gas.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5OB01180A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
11 Jun 2015
Accepted
06 Jul 2015
First published
06 Jul 2015

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 8416-8419

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An atom-economic approach to carboxylic acids via Pd-catalyzed direct addition of formic acid to olefins with acetic anhydride as a co-catalyst

Y. Wang, W. Ren and Y. Shi, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015, 13, 8416 DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01180A

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