Branched‐Regioselective Hydroformylation with Catalytic Amounts of a Reversibly Bound Directing Group

Abstract

Phosphinites do the trick and work as reversibly bound catalyst-directing groups in catalytic amounts to allow for the highly regioselective hydroformylation of homoallylic alcohols with terminal and internal alkene functions in favor of the branched product. Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://www.wiley-vch.de/contents/jc_2002/2008/z802296_s.pdf or from the author. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.