Cover Picture: Multisite Catalysis: A Mechanistic Study of β-Lactone Synthesis from Epoxides and CO—Insights into a Difficult Case of Homogeneous Catalysis (Chem. Eur. J. 6/2003)

Multisite Catalysis: A Mechanistic Study

Multisite Catalysis: A Mechanistic Study of β-Lactone Synthesis from Epoxides and CO—Insights into a Difficult Case of Homogeneous Catalysis

✍ Ferenc Molnar; Gerrit A. Luinstra; Markus Allmendinger; Bernhard Rieger 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 215 KB

## Abstract Carbonylation of epoxides with a combination of Lewis acids and cobalt carbonyls was studied by both theoretical and experimental methods. Only multisite catalysis opens a low‐energy pathway for __trans__ opening of oxirane rings. This ring‐opening reaction is not easily achieved with a