Rhodium-Catalyzed Carbonylations

In this chapter, processes of great industrial interest such as rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation and carbonylation are discussed. Much has been written on these reactions, and it would not have been possible, for editorial reasons, to give an overview of the results obtained since the origins of these processes up to now. Therefore, we have decided to limit our field of action to the data appeared in the literature starting from 2015 until today. However, the plethora of published papers forced us to pick, certainly arbitrary, those articles that we consider most significant. In particular, we focused on some particular aspects of these processes, namely, the recovery and recycling of the homogeneous catalyst, as it represents a thorn in the side of these industrial homogenous processes, on the aqueous biphasic catalysis, an elegant way to perform a more sustainable reaction;, on the enantioselective hydroformylation to obtain valuable intermediates for fine chemicals on tandem reaction that allows to produce functionalized compounds; and, lastly, on the use of substitutes of the hazardous CO with safer substances.