Abstract
A new palladium catalyst was found to exhibit high catalytic activity for carbonylation of olefins and alcohols. cyclo-Bis(μ-carbonyl)dipalladium(I) cation (1) with bridging CO ligands is formed by reductive carbonylation of palladium sulfate, PdSO4, in concentrated H2SO4. When an olefin or alcohol is added, complex 1 changes to a new complex (2) with terminal CO ligands, and tertiary carboxylic acids are obtained in high yields at room temperature and atmospheric pressure of CO. IR and 13C NMR studies suggest that complex 2 may be tentatively formulated to be [Pd2(CO)2]2+, in which the terminal CO ligands are chemically equivalent. Complex 1 is a catalyst precursor, and complex 2 functions as an active species for the carbonylation of olefins and alcohols. The catalytic behavior of the palladium carbonyl catalyst supports the recently proposed reaction mechanism involving an olefin−metal−CO complex as an intermediate for the catalytic carbonylation of olefins and alcohols in strongly acidic solution.
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