A. Elamrani et al., SYNTHESIS OF NEW FUNCTIONALIZED POLYENES BY COOLIGOMERIZATION OF BUTADIENE WITH METHYL ACRYLATE ON NICKEL-CATALYSTS, Journal of molecular catalysis. A, Chemical, 101(3), 1995, pp. 211-215
New polyenes are formed in protic media via nickel catalyzed cooligome
rization of butadiene with methyl acrylate. High activities are achiev
ed with amino-phosphinite ligands in aprotic solvent. Using a deuteriu
m labeled ligand, the presence of the NH group of the ligand is shown
to be the key point for the proton transfer involved in the mechanism.