Chemistry Letters, Vol.33, No.1, 70-71, 2004
Rhodium-catalyzed carbonylation of norbornene under water-gas-shift reaction conditions. Selective formation of co-dimeres with lactone terminus
Carbonylation of norbornene in the presence of a rhodium carbonyl catalyst under water-gas-shift reaction conditions gave a norbornene-carbon monoxide co-dimer having an enol-lactone structure in a high yield.