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Recycling the Waste: The Development of a Catalytic Wittig Reaction. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48 , 6836 –6839. Wittig reaction. The Wittig Reaction is a chemical reaction of an aldehyde or ketone with a triphenyl phosphonium ylide
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Recycling the Waste: The Development of a Catalytic Wittig Reaction Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 6836 –6839
Wittig reaction The Wittig Reaction is a chemical reaction of an aldehyde or ketone with a triphenyl phosphonium ylide (often called a Wittig reagent) to give an alkene and triphenylphosphine oxide
(Br(Bu)2Te)2O Fig. (8). Catalytic formation of olefins according to experiments performed by Tang et al. [27] with Te based catalysts. Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemistry, 2004, Vol. 1, No. 1
Conclusions • The first Wittig reaction catalytic in phosphine has been developed. • A variety of heteroaryl, aryl, and alkyl aldehydes could be efficiently converted to the corresponding alkenes in moderate to high yield with the utilization of the phosphine oxide precatalyst 1.