Reaction of olefin-palladium chloride complex with carbon monoxide.

✍ Scribed by J. Tsuji; M. Morikawa; J. Kiji

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1963
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 157 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)90774-9

✦ Synopsis

Reaction of olefin-palladium chloride complex with water to form a carbonyl compound is well known and acetaldehyde is produced industrially from ethylene by the catalytic action of palladium chloride. By the elaborate work of Smidt on the mechanism of this reaction, 1 it was firmly established that the first step of the reaction is a nucleophilic attack of hydroxide ion to the olefin-palladium chloride complex. Consideration of this reaction mechanism leads us to the expectation that other nucleophilic reagents can also attack the olefin-palladium chloride complex. Until present, however, few studies have been carried out from this point of view. For example, nucleophilic attacks of amines' and acetate anion3 have been reported.

We have carried out the reaction of carbon monoxide with various olefin-palladium chloride complexes, since nucleophilic nature of carbon 1