Continuous Production of Bifunctional Platform Chemicals From Plant Oils in Water by Cyclodextrin-Mediated Hydroformylation
today’s cyclodextrin:
CDs supporting the synthesis of renewable chemicals
Cyclodextrin-mediated aqueous biphasic systems are a potent way to recycle homogeneous catalysts, also applicable to producing highly demanded renewable chemical intermediates.
Thomas Seidensticker and his team from TU Dortmund University present the Rh-catalyzed, cyclodextrin-mediated, aqueous biphasic hydroformylation of methyl 10-undecenoate (from castor oil) and methyl 9-decenoate (from rapeseed oil) to produce methyl 12-oxododecanoate and methyl 11-oxoundecanoate, respectively, with high yields and productivity.
