Transition Metal Catalyzed 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.

Introduction.- Hydroxy-, Alkoxy- and Aminocarbonylations of C-X bonds.- Reductive carbonylations.- Carbonylative coupling reactions with organometallic reagents.- Carbonylative Sonogashira reactions.- Carbonylative C-H activations.- Carbonylative Heck reactions.- Oxidative carbonylation reactions.- Reaction of C-NO2 with CO.- Applications in total synthesis.- A discussion between carbonylation, noncarbonylation and decarbonylation.- Outlook.