α-Methylenation of methyl propanoate via catalytic dehydrogenation of methanol

Lorusso, Patrizia; Coetzee, Jacorien; Eastham, Graham; Cole-Hamilton, David John

View/Open

Lorusso_2015_CCC_Methylenation_AM.pdf (1.412Mb)

Lorusso_2015_CCC_Methylenation_AM_Supplement.pdf (971.3Kb)

Date

07/01/2016

Altmetrics Handle Statistics

Altmetrics DOI Statistics

Abstract

A one-pot system for the conversion of methyl propanoate (MeP) to methyl methacrylate (MMA) has been investigated. In particular, this study is focused on the possibility of performing catalytic dehydrogenation of methanol for the in situ production of anhydrous formaldehyde, which is then consumed in a one-pot base-catalysed condensation with MeP to afford methyl 3-hydroxy-2-methylpropanoate, which spontaneously dehydrogenates to MMA, some of which is subsequently hydrogenated to methyl 2-methypropanoate (MiBu).

Citation

Lorusso , P , Coetzee , J , Eastham , G & Cole-Hamilton , D J 2016 , ' α-Methylenation of methyl propanoate via catalytic dehydrogenation of methanol ' , ChemCatChem , vol. 8 , no. 1 , pp. 222–227 . https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201500763

Publication

ChemCatChem

Status

Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201500763

ISSN

1867-3880

Type

Journal article

Rights

© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-820227.html#terms. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201500763

Collections

University of St Andrews Research

URL

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/cctc.201500763/suppinfo

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9802