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Butadiene and methanol were telomerised in the presence of palladium catalysts with ligands containing 8-diphenylphosphinochromane-like substituents at phosphorus. MonoXantphos and monoSPANphos afforded the most active, stable and selective catalysts known to date under commercially relevant production conditions for 1-methoxyocta-2,7-diene, the precursor to oct-1-ene.
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