“…Considerable efforts have been focused on the development of CO surrogates for carbonylation reactions. [4] The typical known CO surrogate compounds include methanol, [5] 1,3-dioxolane, [6] formaldehyde, [7] paraformaldehyde, [8] silacarboxylic acids, [9] formic acid and its derivatives, [10] acyl chloride derivatives, [11] carbon dioxide, [12] metal carbonyls, [13] and N-formylsaccharin (NFS). [14] These reagents offer CO in situ upon heating or metal catalysis or treatment with acid or base to avoid handling the gas; some of them even can be recycled after release of CO. For instance, NFS, working as an easily accessible and highly reactive crystalline CO surrogate, can be easily synthesized from saccharin and also can be reused.…”