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Cover Picture: The Retro‐Hydroformylation Reaction (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 29/2015)
Author(s) -
Kusumoto Shuhei,
Tatsuki Toshiumi,
Nozaki Kyoko
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201505499
Subject(s) - hydroformylation , aldehyde , alkene , chemistry , stereochemistry , combinatorial chemistry , photochemistry , catalysis , organic chemistry , rhodium
In hydroformylation an alkene captures synthesis gas (CO+H 2 ) to form an aldehyde. Since its discovery in 1938, knowledge on the hydroformylation reaction has continuously grown, and it is finally possible to push the reaction in the reverse direction. The first example of retro‐hydroformylation, that is, the conversion of an aldehyde into the corresponding alkene and synthesis gas, is thus described by K. Nozaki et al. in their Communication on page 8458 ff.