3. Carbon monoxide reactions

They fall into two main groups:

• reactions of carbon monoxide with itself or with non-carbon co-reactants (hydrogen, water);

• reactions of carbon monoxide with various carbon substrates (alkenes, dialkenes, oxygenated compounds, nitrogen compounds).

The second group uses a wide variety of coordination complexes as catalysts, and we have adopted a classification based on the nature of the substrate involved.

The first group will be dealt with at the end of this paragraph, because of its lesser importance in coordination catalysis: so-called hydrocondensation reactions are more generally the province of heterogeneous catalysis, due in particular to the high temperatures required for their implementation, which are more often than not incompatible with...