Rosenmund-Tishchenko reactions

In this section, we will first present sequential catalytic reactions, in which the compound formed during the first step is used as the substrate for the second reaction, both catalytic reactions being catalyzed by ruthenium species arising from a unique precursor. The ruthenium-catalyzed Rosenmund-Tishchenko reactions represent one of the first examples of such chemical transformations (Scheme 21) [44]. 

Sequential ruthenium-catalyzed Rosenmund-Tishchenko reaction Scheme 21... 

Scheme 3. Catalytic cycles for the complex-catalyzed sequential Rosenmund-Tishchenko reactions.

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