Rhodium and Palladium Catalysis for Olefin Hydroformylation and Carbonylation
This community develops catalysts to convert olefins into aldehydes and acids, primarily through hydroformylation and carbonylation reactions.
The work focuses on designing heterogeneous catalysts, particularly single-atom sites and nanoparticles of rhodium and palladium, supported on zeolites, oxides, or porous organic frameworks. Key objectives include achieving high regioselectivity for linear products, enhancing stability against metal leaching, and enabling recycling in liquid-phase or aqueous biphasic systems. Recurring methods involve tuning the coordination environment of metal centers using phosphine ligands or zeolite confinement to control reaction pathways. Applications include the synthesis of acetic acid, formic acid, and specific aldehyde intermediates from ethylene and other olefins.
The largest share of the community's output is found in rhodium research, accounting for 6.7% of all rhodium research, and 2,281 papers here.
The community comprises 7,194 papers, publishing most frequently in the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Organometallics.
Recent work continues to refine single-atom rhodium sites on zeolites and oxides for ethylene hydroformylation, while also exploring palladium-catalyzed asymmetric carbonylation of alkynes and cobalt-catalyzed hydroaminocarbonylation of alkenes.