Ethene hydroformylation with CO/H2O: nucleophilic attack by water on to a terminal CO of a Ru(II) acylcarbonyl complex

Giuseppe Fachinetti; Tiziana Funaioli; Fabio Marchetti

doi:10.1039/b502998h

Ethene hydroformylation with CO/H2O: nucleophilic attack by water on to a terminal CO of a Ru(II) acylcarbonyl complex

Chem Commun (Camb). 2005 Jun 21:(23):2912-4. doi: 10.1039/b502998h. Epub 2005 Jun 21.

Authors

Giuseppe Fachinetti¹, Tiziana Funaioli, Fabio Marchetti

Affiliation

¹ Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale dell'Universita di Pisa, Via Risorgimento, 35, I-56126, Pisa, Italy.

PMID: 15957023
DOI: 10.1039/b502998h

Abstract

The reaction with water of acyldicarbonyl-Ru(II) complexes relevant to ruthenium catalysed ethene hydrocarbonylation with CO/H2O is shown to consist of a nucleophilic attack and to proceed via coordination of propionate and CO to the Ru(II) species.