Author(s)

Andrea Vavasori, Lucio Ronchin, Giuseppe Quartarone, Claudio Tortato

Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy.

The CO-ethene copolymerization has been efficiently carried out in the water/CH₂Cl₂ emulsion by using water insolvable Pd(II) complexes. By using the surfactant SDS very high molecular weight copolymers have been obtained with high productivity (ca. 13,000 g/(gPd.h)).

Palladium Catalyst; Carbonylation; Copolymerization; Polyketone

A. Vavasori, L. Ronchin, G. Quartarone and C. Tortato, "The Catalytic Copolymerization of Ethene with Carbon Monoxide Efficiently Carried out in Water-Dichloromethane-Sodium Dodecylsulfate Emulsion," Modern Research in Catalysis, Vol. 2 No. 3, 2013, pp. 93-99. doi: 10.4236/mrc.2013.23014.