Direct hydroesterification of ethylene with methyl formate with the new system RuCl3–NR4I–NR3: an example of catalytic activation of the CH bond of methyl formate?
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 10,p. 1173-1174
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39940001173
Abstract
Upon using the simple RuCl3–NR4I–NR3 catalytic combination and dimethylformamide as solvent, an exceptionally reactive system is obtained for direct hydroesterification of ethylene with methyl formate (turnover frequency up to 2000 h–1) in the absence of carbon monoxide.Keywords
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