Issue 5, 2018
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Green Chemistry

A sustainable procedure toward alkyl arylacetates: palladium-catalysed direct carbonylation of benzyl alcohols in organic carbonates†

Yahui Li,a   Zechao Wanga  and  Xiao-Feng Wu ORCID logo *ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e.V. an der Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 29a, 18059 Rostock, Germany

b Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Xiasha Campus, Hangzhou 310018, People's Republic of China
E-mail: Xiao-Feng.Wu@catalysis.de

Abstract

A sustainable procedure for the synthesis of various alkyl arylacetates from benzyl alcohols has been developed. With palladium as the catalyst and organic carbonates as the green solvent and in situ activator, benzyl alcohols were carbonylated in an efficient manner without any halogen additives.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7GC03619A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
01 Dec 2017
Accepted
24 Jan 2018
First published
25 Jan 2018

Green Chem., 2018,20, 969-972

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A sustainable procedure toward alkyl arylacetates: palladium-catalysed direct carbonylation of benzyl alcohols in organic carbonates

Y. Li, Z. Wang and X. Wu, Green Chem., 2018, 20, 969 DOI: 10.1039/C7GC03619A

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