Carbonylation of unsaturated hydrocarbons refers to the insertion of carbon monoxide(CO) into olefins(or alkynes) and different nucleophiles in the form of carbonyl group, which higher value-added chemicals are synthesized in the presence of transition metal catalysts. In this paper, the importance of carbonylation reaction in the synthesis of high value-added chemicals was briefly introduced:(1) the synthetic route was simple and the target products could be synthesized in one step with high yield;(2) the starting materials of carbonylation reaction were cheap and various, such as natural fossil oils, petrochemical and coal chemical products etc.(3) Because the raw materials were cheap and the products were more useful, the economic benefit was considerable. Then the application of several different types of carbonylation reactions(hydroformylation, hydroesterification, aminocarbonylation, hydrocarboxylation) in the development of new catalyst systems and efficient synthesis of target products were introduced. A variety of high value-added products like aldehyde, ester, amide or carboxylic acid were synthesized with high regio/chemoselectivity. Finally, the existing problems of carbonylation reaction and the future development direction and trend were prospected: (1) the application of cheap metal catalysts in carbonylation reaction; (2) developing more carbonylative substitutes on the basis of existing carbon monoxide surrogates; (3) carbonylation of some special olefins(1,3-dienes) to synthesize target compounds with high efficiency and regio/chemoselectivity; (4) explore the mechanism of carbonylation reaction process etc. It is expected to achieve the goal of green, cheap and recyclable carbonylation to produce high value-added carbonylative chemicals with high efficiency and selectivity.
? Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21901250) and the General Programs of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2019M651625).