Carbon dioxide is ubiquitous and a vital molecule for maintaining life on our planet.
However, the ever-increasing emission of anthropogenic CO2 into our atmosphere has …

Conspectus Low molecular weight gases (eg, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and ethylene)
represent vital building blocks for the construction of a wide array of organic molecules …

Transition metal catalyzed carbonylation reactions using carbon monoxide as the C-1
source have occupied an all important position in catalysis which is subsequently related to …

Recently, carbonylation reactions have gained considerable interest as they are becoming a
versatile tool in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and their intermediates …

Various olefins can be smoothly transformed in the presence of a Pd‐based catalyst system
and (hetero) aromatic amines or nitroarenes to synthetically interesting amides in good …

An efficient method has been developed for direct amide bond synthesis between carboxylic
acids and amines via (2-(thiophen-2-ylmethyl) phenyl) boronic acid as a highly active bench …

Carbonylation reactions represent useful tools for organic synthesis. However, the necessity
to use gaseous carbon monoxide is a disadvantage for most organic chemists. To solve this …

A palladacyclic precatalyst is employed to cleanly generate a highly active XantPhos-ligated
Pd-catalyst. Its use in low temperature aminocarbonylations of (hetero) aryl bromides …

A novel palladium‐catalyzed C H double carbonylation introduces two adjacent carbonyl
groups for the synthesis of isatins from readily available anilines. The reaction proceeds …

α-Ketoamides and their derivatives are key constituents of natural products, biologically
relevant molecules, drug and drug candidates, and functional materials. Further, they are …