The effect of the conditions of the photocatalytic carbonylation of pentane catalyzed by the Rh2Cl2(CO)4-PMe3 system on the yield of C6-aldehyde

The yield of C₆-aldehyde in the photocatalytic system Rh₂Cl₂(CO)₄-PMe₃ passes through a maximum as the CO pressure and PMe₃ concentration increase. The increase in the yield of aldehydes with increasing CO pressure is related to the increase in the carbonylation rate and to the retardation of the photodecomposition of the aldehydes. The rate of the photocatalytic carbonylation of pentane in this system is 20 times higher than in the presence of RhCl(PMe₃)₂(CO).Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1013–1015, June, 1994.