Ga. Korneeva et al., SYNTHESIS OF PD CATALYSTS BASED ON A NORBORNENE - CO COPOLYMER AND THEIR PROPERTIES IN THE CARBOMETHOXYLATION OF PROPYLENE, Russian chemical bulletin, 47(2), 1998, pp. 360-362
It was found that carboxylation of norbornene (nbn) in the presence of
the PdCl2-PPh3-HCl catalytic system is accompanied by alternating cop
olymerization of nbn with carbon monoxide to form norbornanecarboxylic
acid (yield similar to 20%) and a nbn-CO copolymer (yield similar to
80%, M-w = 1600, M-w/M-n = 1.6). The Pd-II salt of poly(norbornane ket
one)carboxylic acid is a highly active catalyst for the carbomethoxyla
tion of propylene.