title: Telomerisation of buta-1,3-diene and methanol: superiority of chromanyl-type phosphines in the Dow process for the industrial production of 1-MOD.
abstract: Butadiene and methanol were telomerised in the presence of palladium catalysts with ligands containing 8-diphenylphosphinochromane-like substituents at phosphorus. MonoXantphos and monoSPANphos afforded the most active, stable and selective catalysts known to date under commercially relevant production conditions for 1-methoxyocta-2,7-diene, the precursor to oct-1-ene.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain.
authors.forename: Mathieu J-L
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Tschan
authors.forename: Hélène
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Launay
authors.forename: Henk
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hagen
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Benet-Buchholz
authors.forename: Piet W N M
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: van Leeuwen