Primary alcohols are widely used in industry as solvents and precursors of detergents.The classic methods for hydration of terminal alkenes always produce the Markovnikov products.Herein,we reported a reliable approac...Primary alcohols are widely used in industry as solvents and precursors of detergents.The classic methods for hydration of terminal alkenes always produce the Markovnikov products.Herein,we reported a reliable approach to produce primary alcohols from terminal alkenes combining with biomass-derived allyl alcohol by tandem cross-metathesis/hydrogenation.A series of primary alcohol with different chain lengths was successfully produced in high yields(ca.90%).Computational studies revealed that self-metathesis and hydrogenation of substrates are accessible but much slower than crossmetathesis.This new methodology represents a unique alternative to primary alcohols from terminal alkenes.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21322608 and 21276174)the Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province(No.201801D121055)Program for the Shanxi Young Sanjin Scholar。
文摘Primary alcohols are widely used in industry as solvents and precursors of detergents.The classic methods for hydration of terminal alkenes always produce the Markovnikov products.Herein,we reported a reliable approach to produce primary alcohols from terminal alkenes combining with biomass-derived allyl alcohol by tandem cross-metathesis/hydrogenation.A series of primary alcohol with different chain lengths was successfully produced in high yields(ca.90%).Computational studies revealed that self-metathesis and hydrogenation of substrates are accessible but much slower than crossmetathesis.This new methodology represents a unique alternative to primary alcohols from terminal alkenes.
