This review deals with recent organo-catalyzed/initiated developments of co-polymerization cyclic anhydrides and epoxides to access polyesters.

Group 4 metallocene complexes are effective catalysts in the ring-opening copolymerisation of epoxides and anhydrides to afford bio-derived polymers.

Anhydrous sodium acetate will serve as the catalyst with maleic, chloro-maleic, and methylglutaconic anhydrides, giving yields of 0.54, 0.22, and 1.02 moles CO2 per mole of anhydride. The products of all these reactions are black and brown-black, are soluble in acetone, acetophenone, dioxane, and aqueous alkali and are insoluble in benzene, toluene, ether, chloroform and carbon tetrachloride, a...

A convenient method has been developed, which allows for the direct transformation of aryl iodides into the corresponding carboxylic acid anhydrides via Pd-catalyzed carbonylation under atmospheric CO pressure.

PhSCF2SiMe3 () underwent fluoride-catalyzed nucleophilic addition to the carbonyl group of anhydrides to provide the corresponding γ-difluoro(phenylsulfanyl)methyl γ-lactols, which were employed for the synthesis of γ-difluoromethylated γ-lactams.

Dicarboxylic acids and their derivatives (esters and anhydrides) have been used as acylating agents in lipase-catalyzed reactions in organic solvents. The synthetic outcomes have been dimeric or hybrid derivatives of bioactive natural compounds as well as functionalized polyesters.

We describe the efficient and highly enantioselective kinetic resolution of trans-cycloalkane-1,2-diols utilizing an enantioselective Steglich reaction with a variety of carboxylic acids that form the corresponding anhydrides in situ.

Amino, bromo, nitro, and naphthalene functionalized UiO-66 metal-organic frameworks have been synthesized through reticular chemistry. UiO-66-NH(2) is shown to be suitable for postsynthetic modification with a variety of anhydrides to generate new, functionalized frameworks.

We have demonstrated that a pentaerythritol-derivatized hexavanadate can be easily esterified with acid anhydrides using 4-(N,N-dimethylamino)pyridine (DMAP) as a catalyst, which provides a convenient method for the functionalization of polyoxometalates.

The first ultrasound-promoted multicomponent synthesis of pyridazinones and phthalazinones from arenes, cyclic anhydrides and ArNHNH(2) in the presence of an efficient recyclable catalyst, [bmim]Br/AlCl(3), in high yield and short reaction time is reported.