Metal-Catalyzed Carbonylation Reactions with CO2: An Update

Abstract

The utilization of CO2 as an efficient and environmentally friendly chemical analogue of CO is becoming a solid reality in the chemical scenario. CO2-based carbonylations have started paralleling the more consolidated carboxylation procedures, opening new horizons and perspectives in the utilization of carbon dioxide as an organic C1-containing building block. The advent of efficient and site-selective metal-catalyzed protocols for the fixation of CO2 into organic scaffolds, under controlled reductive conditions, contributed substantially to the development of robust, efficient, and convenient protocols. In the present Review article, a collection of the most recent examples of metal-catalyzed CO2-based carbonylations is documented with a particular emphasis on mechanistic aspects.