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Catalytic synthesis of propionic acid by carboxylation of ethylene with carbon dioxide

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The carboxylation of ethylene with CO2 in the presence of tris (triphenylphosphine) rhodium chloride at 700 atm and 180° gave propionic acid, ethanol, and ethyl propionate in respective yields of 38.4, 24.3, and 11.2%, with an ethylene conversion of 91.4%.

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  1. N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow

    A. L. Lapidus, S. D. Pirozhkov & A. A. Koryakin

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  1. A. L. Lapidus
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2814–2816, December, 1978.

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Lapidus, A.L., Pirozhkov, S.D. & Koryakin, A.A. Catalytic synthesis of propionic acid by carboxylation of ethylene with carbon dioxide. Russ Chem Bull 27, 2513–2515 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00941114

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