Modernized low pressure carbonylation methods in batch and flow employing common acids as a CO source

Org Lett. 2013 Jun 7;15(11):2794-7. doi: 10.1021/ol401092a. Epub 2013 May 22.

Abstract

Carbonylation reactions, such as Heck, Sonogashira, and radical carbonylations, were successfully carried out in a "two-chamber reactor" where carbon monoxide was produced ex situ by the Morgan reaction (dehydration of formic acid by sulfuric acid). By a subsequent application in a microflow system using a "tube-in-tube" reactor where gas-permeable Teflon AF2400 was used as the inner tube, it is demonstrated that formic acid/sulfuric acid can be employed concomitantly with an amine base such as triethylamine in the Heck aminocarbonylation of aryl iodide.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Carbon Monoxide / chemistry*
  • Ethylamines / chemistry*
  • Formates / chemistry*
  • Polytetrafluoroethylene / chemistry
  • Pressure
  • Sulfuric Acids / chemistry*

Substances

  • Ethylamines
  • Formates
  • Sulfuric Acids
  • formic acid
  • Carbon Monoxide
  • Polytetrafluoroethylene
  • sulfuric acid
  • triethylamine