Manganese-, Iron-Catalyzed Carbonylation Reactions: A Personal Account

Transition-metal-catalyzed carbonylative transformations have been widely employed to convert CO gas into valuable carbonyl-containing molecules, which are mainly achieved by noble metals (Pd, Rh, Ir, Ru) and recently also been explored with nickel and other catalysts. Although noble metal catalysts have advantage in reaction efficiency, their high-cost lead scientist to explored alternative procedures. Also under these backgrounds, we carried out some studies on non-expensive metal-catalyzed carbonylative transformations. In this account, we summarize the carbonylation reactions developed in our research group by using manganese and iron catalysis. These carbonylation reactions proceeded either via SET (single electron transfer) or TET (two electron transfer) mechanism.