title: Microwaves make hydroformylation a rapid and easy process.
abstract: [reaction: see text] Hydroformylation of alkenes can be carried out in a few minutes under microwave activation at a relatively low pressure (40 psi) using commercially available catalysts and ligands. The 80 mL vial of a Discover microwave oven was connected to a cylinder of CO and H2, and after filling the reactor at 40 psi, a mixture of an alkene, the Wilkinson catalyst, and XANTPHOS was submitted to microwave irradiation giving, after 4 min, high conversion into the corresponding aldehyde without formation of the isomerized alkene.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento Farmaco Chimico Tecnologico, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via A. Moro, 53100 Siena, Italy.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Petricci
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mann
authors.forename: Angèle
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schoenfelder
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rota
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taddei