SHORTPAPER	Synthesis 2006: 594-596   DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-926288
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Palladium-Catalyzed Hydroxycarbonylation of Aryl and Vinyl Triflates by in situ Generated Carbon Monoxide under Microwave Irradiation
Giordano Lesma, Alessandro Sacchetti, Alessandra Silvani*
Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Industriale e Centro Interdisciplinare Studi biomolecolari e applicazioni Industriali (CISI), Università degli Studi di Milano, via G. Venezian 21, 20133 Milan, Italy Fax: +39(02)50314078; e-Mail: alessandra.silvani@unimi.it;
Received 27 June 2005

Abstract

An operationally simple hydroxycarbonylation of aryl and vinyl triflates to the corresponding carboxylic acids with a palladium-mediated microwave system was carried out in water.

Key words

carbonylations - carboxylic acids - microwaves - molybdenum hexacarbonyl - triflates