Catalytic Carbonylation Reactions

Matthias Beller obtained his PhD at the University of Göttingen, Germany and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA. Since 1998, he has been head of the Leibniz Institute for Organic Catalysis at University of Rostock. He is a member of the board of Dechema's Catalysis Section, the German Catalysis Competence Network ("ConNeCat") as well as the Innovationsagentur Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He is also a member of the Association for Technical Sciences of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities.

Hydroformylation.- Asymmetric Hydroformylation.- Synthetic Applications of Tandem Reaction Sequences Involving Hydroformylation.- Hydroxy- and Alkoxycarbonylations of Alkenes and Alkynes.- Carbonylation of Ethene in Methanol Catalysed by Cationic Phosphine Complexes of Pd(II): from Polyketones to Monocarbonylated Products.- The Pauson-Khand Reaction.- Acetic Acid Synthesis by Catalytic Carbonylation of Methanol.- Carbonylations of Aldehydes.- Carbonylation of Epoxides.- Oxidative Carbonylations.