Dieter Vogt and co-workers have shown that using water as co-solvent in rhodium-catalysed aldehyde hydrogenation under hydroformylation conditions enhances both rate and selectivity towards primary alcohols. Find out more about this cheap and cheerful advance in their recent Hot Article:
“On-water” rhodium-catalysed hydroformylation for the production of linear alcohols
Olivier Diebolt, Christian Müller and Dieter Vogt
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C2CY00450J
Also of interest – further recent research from the Vogt group:
Recent advances in the recycling of homogeneous catalysts using membrane separation
Michèle Janssen, Christian Müller and Dieter Vogt
Green Chem., 2011, 13, 2247-2257
DOI: 10.1039/C1GC15264E, Critical Review
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C–H activation of 2,4,6-triphenylphosphinine: unprecedented formation of cyclometalated [(PC)Ir(III)] and [(PC)Rh(III)] complexes
Leen E. E. Broeckx, Martin Lutz, Dieter Vogt and Christian Müller
Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 2003-2005
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC04660D, Communication
Molecular weight enlargement—a molecular approach to continuous homogeneous catalysis
Michèle Janssen, Christian Müller and Dieter Vogt
Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 8403-8411
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00175A, Perspective
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