Phosphine

The carbonylation of methanol to acetic acid is one of the most important applications in homogeneous catalysis. The first chapter comprises a review on the mechanistic studies into the catalytic cycle of the ‘Monsanto process’ and includes some of the most prominent studies int…

Different diphosphine ligands having the structure shown below have been studied for carbonylation and hydroformylation reactions. Depending on the substituent on the phosphorus atoms the electronic and steric properties can be tuned to direct the reaction towards the desired pr…

This dissertation features several projects involving catalyst design and reaction development in the areas of organocatalysis and dealkenylative C(sp3)–C(sp2) bond functionalizations. The underlying theme throughout all of this work is the introduction of robust and modular tra…