STUDY ON POLYMER—Ru-Co—BIMETALLIC COMPLEXES CATALYSTS Ⅰ. SYNTHESIS OF CATALYSTS AND THEIR USE FOR THE HYDROFORMYLATION

Six kinds of polymer ligands, supported on SiO;, containing coordinating atoms P, S and N respectively, have been synthesized. The Ru（Ⅲ）-Co（Ⅱ） bimetallic complexes of these polymer ligands have been obtained and examined as catalysts for the hydroformylation of cyclohexene. The effects of reaction temperature, pressure and Co/Ru ratio etc. on the activities of catalysts were investigated in detail. The catalysts are all polymer-noncarbonyl-metal complexes, easily to be prepared, active and stable. From the experimental results it can be suggested that under reaction conditions such polymer-noncarbonyl-metal complexes convert "in situ" to polymer-carbonyl-metal complexes, thus become active catalysts. The course of this conversion is supposed as a preliminary approach.