Shen, ChaorenFink, CornelLaurenczy, GaborDyson, Paul J.Wu, Xiao-Feng2017-11-112017-11-112017-11-11201710.1039/C7CC07412Chttps://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/142121WOS:000415661300009A versatile palladium-catalyzed double carbonylation of aryl bromides has been developed. Using Pd(OAc)2/BuPAd2 as the catalyst system and DBU as the base, under relatively low CO pressure, various a-ketoamides were produced in good yields. In order to get insight into the reaction pathway, real time NMR studies were performed as well and a correlated reaction mechanism is been given.text::journal::journal article::research article