CO- and HCl-free synthesis of acid chlorides from unsaturated hydrocarbons via shuttle catalysis

Previous methods to transform unsaturated substrates into carbonyl-containing products have generally relied on the use of hazardous carbon monoxide and tailor-made catalysts for each nucleophile employed. Now, shuttle catalysis can be used to perform a CO- and HCl-free transfer hydrochlorocarbonylation to access acid chlorides that can be transformed in situ into virtually any carbonyl-containing...