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TL;DR: In this paper, a homogeneous palladium catalyst system was developed for the production of perfectly alternating copolymers of carbon monoxide with ethylene, where C 3 units randomly replace ethylene units along the chain.

TL;DR: In this paper, copolymerisation of ethene and alkylacrylates is catalysed by palladium modified with di(2-methoxyphenyl)phosphinobenzene-2-sulfonic acid (DOPPBS); a linear polymer is produced in which acrylate units are incorporated into the polyethylene backbone.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the mechanisms proposed for the isomerisation of allylic alcohols is given while some catalyst systems are singled out to discuss mechanistic research, such as the synthesis of enols and enolates, chiral carbonyl compounds and silyl substituted ketones.

TL;DR: In this article, a homogeneous palladium catalysts for the selective production of methyl methacrylate by methoxycarbonylation of propyne was developed. But the performance of these catalysts was limited by the fact that the 2-pyridylphosphine ligand plays an essential role both as a chelating PN ligand and as a monocoordinated ligand in the rate-determining step.