Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1982, 47, 2128-2139
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19822128
The effect of organic solvents on the reaction of higher 1-alkenes with palladium dichloride in aqueous solution
Alexander Kaszonyi, Ján Vojtko and Mikuláš Hrušovský
Department of Organic Technology, Slovak Institute of Chemical Technology, 812 37 Bratislava
Abstract
It was found that hydrophilic organic solvent, added to aqueous PdCl2 solution to increase the solubility of alkene, affects both parallel processes taking place during the reaction of 1-alkenes with PdCl2, i.e. the isomerisation of 1-alkene to internal n-alkenes and the oxidation of alkenes to carbonyl compounds; the solvent can facilitate either both processes (alcohols) or only one of the processes (acetic acid - isomerisation, N,N-dimethylformamide - oxidation), eventually it can retard both or one of processes (acetonitrile - oxidation, dioxane - isomerisation, dimethyl sulphoxide - isomerisation and oxidation). On using 2-methoxyethanol as the solvent, the oxidation of 1-octene can be correlated by the same rate equation as the oxidation of styrene or ethylene.
