RSC Publishing


Publishing

 

Cover image for Dalton Transactions, select for current issue

Dalton Transactions

The international journal for inorganic, organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry



Subscribers

Non-subscribers

Free access



Perspective

Dalton Trans., 2009, 6251 - 6266, DOI: 10.1039/b902425p

Away from phosgene: reductive carbonylation of nitroarenes and oxidative carbonylation of amines, understanding the mechanism to improve performance

Fabio Ragaini

Recent progress, with some emphasis on the author's own work, on the understanding of the mechanism of the reductive carbonylation of nitroarenes and of the oxidative carbonylation of amines is discussed, highlighting the close connection between the two reactions and trying to unify scattered data in the literature. Isocyanates, carbamates and ureas can be obtained by either procedure, without the need for the use of the toxic and corrosive phosgene.

Graphical abstract image for this article (ID: b902425p)