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Published on: November 9, 2019
Coupling CO2 Electroreduction to CO with alkyne Alkoxycarbonylation
Haonan Shi1, Shuaiqiang Jia2, Mengke Dong2
1State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Molecular & Process Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
Abstract:
The alkyne alkoxycarbonylation to α- or β-substituted acrylates was coupled with the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to CO. The CO-enriched gaseous mixture produced from the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 was collected and directly used in the alkyne alkoxycarbonylation. The CO content was found to be critical to the process of carbonylation, and satisfying results were attained by using the gas mixture containing >15 vol % CO. This method offered an efficient but simple CO source from CO2 electroreduction to the alkoxycarbonylation reaction in two-compartment manner.
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