Abstract: Carbonylation, the direct incorporation of carbonyl functionality into organic molecules, is one of the frontiers of green chemistry and one of the important transformation pathways of utilization of C₁ resources. The recent research progress of oxidation carbonylation of amines/β-amino alcohols, alkoxycarbonylation of epoxides, carbonylative Suzuki coupling, carbonylative Sonogashira, and double carbonylation of aryl iodides has been presented, focusing on the carbonylation reactions studied by us in the past few years, with 81 references. The development and application prospects for carbonylation have been also discussed.

Key words: amine, &beta, -amino alcohol, oxidation carbonylation, epoxide, alkoxycarbonylation, aryl iodide, carbonylative coupling, double carbonylation