It is an encapsulated catalyst (EnCat®), wherein palladium acetate and tri-o-tolylphosphine (TOTP) are microencapsulated within a polyurea matrix, which prevents palladium leaching.
[reaction: see text] Pd nanoparticles (approximately 2 nm in size) microencapsulated in polyurea is an efficient and recyclable catalyst for reductive ring-opening hydrogenolysis of epoxides, using either HCOOH/Et(3)N or H(2) as a hydrogen donor.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), (10), 1134-1135 (2002-07-19)
Palladium(II) acetate microencapsulated in polyurea (MC-[Pd]) is an economical and versatile heterogeneous catalyst for a range of phosphine-free cross-coupling reactions in both conventional solvents and supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2); the catalyst can be recovered by a simple filtration and recycled
We offer EnCat and a variety of transition metal-based encapsulated catalysts for applications in areas such as Suzuki, Stille, and Heck couplings, carbonylations, hydrogenation, hydrogenolysis, and dihydroxylation.