1 Department of Applied Chemistry & Frontier Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.
Lone pair of heteroatom located at the beta-cis position in alpha,beta-unsaturated acyl and aroyl group 10 metal complexes dramatically facilitated the stoichiometric and catalytic decarbonylation reactions.