title: Carbon monoxide solubility in ionic liquids: determination, prediction and relevance to hydroformylation.
abstract: The solubility of carbon monoxide in 37 ionic liquids and in some organic solvents has been determined using high-pressure (13)C NMR spectroscopy; a method for predicting the CO solubility is demonstrated, and it was shown that the rate of the hydroformylation of 5-hexen-2-one does not correlate with the CO solubility, as expected from the determined relative solubility of CO compared to H(2).
authors.affiliation: Institut des Sciences et Ingénerie Chimiques (ISIC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-BCH, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: C André
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Ohlin
authors.forename: Paul J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Dyson
authors.forename: Gábor
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Laurenczy