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It is of fundamental importance to transform carbon monoxide (CO) to petrochemical feedstocks and fine chemicals. Many strategies built on the activation of C=O bond by π-back bonding from the transition metal center were developed during the past decades. Herein, a new CO activation method, in which the CO was converted to the active acyl-like metalloradical, [(por)Rh(CO)]* (por = porphyrin), was reported. The reactivity of [(por)Rh(CO)]* and other rhodium porphyrin compounds, such as (por)- RhCHO and (por)RhC(O)NHnPr, and corresponding mechanism studies were conducted experimentally and computationally and inspired the design of a new conversion system featuring 100% atom economy that promotes carbonylation of amines to formamides using porphyrin rhodium(II) metalloradical. Following this radical based pathway, the carbonylations of a series of primary and secondary aliphatic amines were examined, and turnover numbers up to 224 were obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under the conditions of oxidative gold catalysis, exposure of ethylene to aryl silanes and alcohols generates products of 1,2-oxyarylation. This provides a rare example of a process that allows catalytic differential 1,2-difunctionalization of this feedstock chemical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]