Photochemical Carbonylation of Ethane under Supercritical Conditions

✍ Scribed by Thomas E. Bitterwolf; Dinara Lukmanova Kline; John C. Linehan; Clement R. Yonker; R. Shane Addleman

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 72 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/1521-3773(20010716)40:14<2692::aid-anie2692>3.0.co;2-p

✦ Synopsis

Feasible photocatalysis: The rhodium catalyst [Rh(CO)(PMe ) Cl] photochemically transforms ethane to propionaldehyde in single-phase mixtures of ethane and in carbon dioxide/ethane single phases [Eq. (1)]. A side reaction of carbon dioxide with the catalyst to give OPMe and [Rh(CO) (PMe )Cl] or [Rh (CO) (PMe ) (μ-Cl) ] has also been observed.