TY - JOUR AU - Kreisz, J AU - Ungvary, F AU - Sisak, Attila AU - Markó, László TI - Kinetics of the Ring-opening Carbonylation of Ethyloxirane with Hydrido Tetracarbonyl Cobalt JF - JOURNAL OF ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY J2 - J ORGANOMET CHEM VL - 417 PY - 1991 IS - 1-2 SP - 89 EP - 97 PG - 9 SN - 0022-328X DO - 10.1016/0022-328X(91)80163-E UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/1092482 ID - 1092482 AB - The rate of CO uptake in the reaction of HCo(CO)4 with ethyloxirane, which gives (3-hydroxypentanoyl)cobalt tetracarbonyl as the major product in an n-octane/methyl isobutyl ketone solvent mixture at 15-degrees-C, is first order with respect to HCo(CO)4 and ethyloxirane, and independent of the concentration of Co(CO)4- or CO. The reaction is faster with DCo(CO)4. A preequilibrium ion pair formation and a subsequent rate-determining internal substitution, followed by fast CO insertion, accounts for these results. LA - English DB - MTMT ER -