Recently, carbonylation reactions have gained considerable interest as they are becoming a versatile tool in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and their intermediates. Nowadays, a plethora of transition metal catalysts are available for the synthesis of various functional groups like ureas, carbamates, oxamates, oxamides, α-keto amides, ketones, esters, etc. using carbonylation methodology. Several carbonylation reactions such as aminocarbonylation, alkoxycarbonylation, double carbonylation and oxidative carbonylation, provide efficient and attractive alternatives to the conventional synthetic routes on a laboratory or industrial scale. Oxidative carbonylation is an important reaction as it allows direct carbonylative C–H bond activation. A double carbonylation reaction provides a one step alternative route for the synthesis of α-keto amides, oxamides, and oxamates. It also eliminates the use of conventional thermally unstable and toxic reagents like oxalyl chloride. Several recent studies have focused on the various aspects of these reactions, including catalyst–product separation, and catalyst recoverability and reusability. In view of this, developments in anchoring homogeneous catalysts using various techniques like biphasic catalysis and supported liquid phase catalysis are gaining importance. Carbonylation routes using these techniques are simple, efficient, economical, avoid the use of ligands, and give the desired products in excellent yields. The use of phosphine ligands is disadvantageous as it leads to air/moisture sensitivity, tedious work-up procedures and high work-up costs. Several phosphine-free carbonylation routes eliminate the use of phosphine ligands, and provide economical and simple methods for these transformations. In this review we have summarized the recent trends in carbonylative transformations, which have undergone a rapid development.

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Recent developments in palladium catalysed carbonylation reactions

Evolution of chiral stationary phase design in the Pirkle laboratories

Structure and reactivity of alkali metal enolates

Catalytic phosphorus(V)-mediated chlorination and bromination reactions of alcohols have been developed. The new reactions constitute a catalytic version of the classical Appel halogenation reaction. In these new reactions oxalyl chloride is used as a consumable stoichiometric reagent to generate the halophosphonium salts responsible for halogenation from catalytic phosphine oxides. Thus, phosphine oxides have been transformed from stoichiometric waste products into catalysts and a new concept for catalytic phosphorus-based activation and nucleophilic substitution of alcohols has been validated. The present study has focused on a full exploration of the scope and limitations of phosphine oxide catalyzed chlorination reactions as well as the development of the analogous bromination reactions. Further mechanistic studies, including density functional theory calculations on proposed intermediates of the catalytic cycle, are consistent with a catalytic cycle involving halo- and alkoxyphosphonium salts as inte...

Catalytic Phosphorus(V)-Mediated Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: Development of a Catalytic Appel Reaction

Sara Jane Rhoads

Papers

Thermal Rearrangement of 2,5-Dimethyl-2-vinyl-2,3-dihydrofuran to 4-Methyl-4-cycloheptenone

Decomposition Reactions of Alkyl Chloroglyoxalates

2- and 3-Vinylpyridines as Dienophiles in the Diels—Alder Reaction1

Further Studies of Anomalous Alkylations with β-Dialkylaminoethyl Chlorides

The Alkylation of β-Ketoesters with β-Dimethylaminoethyl Chloride1