Palladium-Catalyzed Double and Single Carbonylation of Aryl Halides and Allylic Compounds

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/bcsj.68.433

After a brief introduction summarizing the author's previous work concerning the double carbonylation of aryl halides catalyzed by palladium complexes, newly found catalytic processes (1) for converting allylic formates and chlorides into β,γ-unsaturated acids and (2) the double carbonylation of allylic chlorides to β,γ-unsaturated α-keto amides are described.Mechanisms which reasonably account for the catalytic processes are proposed on the basis of studies concerning the properties of the organopalladium complexes.