Ordered mesoporous materials as solid supports for rhodium–diphosphine catalysts with remarkable hydroformylation activity

Fabrizio Marras, Jia Wang, Marc‐Olivier Coppens, Joost N. H. Reek

Chemical Communications · 2010 · 39 citations · 23 references

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Abstract

A rhodium-diphosphine complex based on Xantphos-type ligands was anchored on mesoporous silica SBA-15, and the material showed remarkably high catalytic activity in the hydroformylation of 1-octene, even exceeding its homogeneous analogue under certain conditions.

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