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Not water, but polyethyleneglycol serves as the solvent for the cobalt complex 1 (R CH2CH2(OCH2CH2)nOH, n = 9), an efficient catalyst for the hydroformylation of 1-hexene. Because complex 1 is not soluble in unpolar solvents, this highly chemoselective reaction can be conducted in the two-phase system polyethyleneglycol/hexene.
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Ritter et al. (1996) studied this question.
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