Abstract Despite significant research efforts in the past, one of the remaining problems to be solved in industrially important hydroformylation is the chemoselective low-pressure hydroformylation of internal alkenes. We report here on a new class of phosphabarrelene/ rhodium catalysts 2 that display very high activity towards hydroformylation of internal alkenes with an unusually low tendency towards alkene isomerization. Preparation of new ...
[Blakemore, Paul R.; Kocienski, Philip J.; Morley, Andrew; Muir, Kenneth Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkin Transactions 1, 1999 , # 8 p. 955 - 968]