Catalytic conversion of methyl formate to long chain esters via hydroesterification
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Over the last several years, the field of CO-based hydroesterification has become robust and is still growing. There is great deal of interest into the sector for developing a sustainable method of hydroesterification using CO surrogates as new ligands, catalysts, and systems are published regularly which help us further understand the intricacies of the reaction and how we might improve it for future use. This work analyses the Pd-based catalyst employed by Beller for formate based hydroesterification of 1-octene to methyl nonanoate, in presence of directing alcohols that were used in Ru-catalyzed systems. A zero valent palladium complex L2Pd(dba) [where L2 = 1,2-bis(di-tert-butylphosphinomethyl) benzene and dba = trans, trans-dibenzylideneacetone which was previously used in CO-based alkoxycarbonylation of ethene to methyl propanoate, was also synthesized and its catalytic activity towards formate-based hydroesterification was investigated.
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