Hydroformylation
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In organic chemistry, hydroformylation, also known as oxo synthesis or oxo process, is an industrial process for the production of aldehydes (R−CH=O) from alkenes (R2C=CR2). This chemical reaction entails the net addition of a formyl group (−CHO) and a hydrogen atom to a carbon-carbon double bond.
The process entails treatment of an alkene typically with high pressures (between 10 and 100 atmospheres) of carbon monoxide and hydrogen (synthesis gas) at temperatures between 40 and 200 °C, in the presence of transition metal-based catalysts. Formaldehyde can also be used instead of syngas in some cases.
