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Easy, Green and Safe Carbonylation Reactions through Zeolite‐Catalyzed Carbon Monoxide Production from Formic Acid
Author(s) -
Losch Pit,
Felten AnneSophie,
Pale Patrick
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
advanced synthesis and catalysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.541
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1615-4169
pISSN - 1615-4150
DOI - 10.1002/adsc.201500384
Subject(s) - carbonylation , chemistry , formic acid , carbon monoxide , catalysis , xantphos , palladium , methanol , inorganic chemistry , organic chemistry
Zeolites with the right shape and acid site density and strength, such as certain ZSM‐5 forms, were able to cleanly decompose formic acid to carbon monoxide (CO), and the latter could be directly used in palladium‐catalyzed carbonylation reactions. A simple two‐reactor system was designed to produce CO conveniently and then further react this gas in a safe way. The two‐reactor system is particularly cheap, easy to set up and use. In addition, the carbonylation conditions without pressure allowed for very efficient CO incorporation, with only 1% of palladium(II) chloride (PdCl 2 ) and Xantphos.