Carbonylation industrial fine chemicals catalysis

The carbonylation of reactive organic substrates, up to now, has been the most applied and investigated aspect of CO catalysis because of its large industrial applications [1 ]. We shall limit our discussion to the carbonylation of unsaturated hydrocarbons, since the direct carbonylation of organic halides, or similar activated organic derivatives, has implications that are mainly limited to fine chemical production (with the exception of methanol) [2,3. ... 

Based on the increasing knowledge of two phase catalysis new fine chemical processes like butadiene telomerisation, aUylation with carbon nucleophiles, and the carbonylation of benzyl chlorides with water-soluble catalysts have aheady been commercialized or are likely to be industrially realized in the near future . 

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