The ''Carbonylative Heck Reaction'' is not the same as those that were traditionally called ''Heck carbonylations''. Heck carbonylations normally include alkoxycarbonylation, aminocarbonylation and hydroxycarbonylation, while a carbonylative Heck reaction is more related to a Heck reaction. In the late 1960s, Richard Heck developed several coupling reactions of arylmercury compounds in the presence of either stoichiometric or catalytic amounts of palladium salts [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Based on this work in 1972, he described a protocol for the coupling of iodobenzene with styrene, which today is known as the ''Heck reaction '' [8]. In contrast to this, the catalytic insertion of olefins into acylpalladium complexes is called a ''Carbonylative Heck reaction''. Here the acylpalladium complexes can either by CO insertion or by the oxidative addition of benzoyl precursors [9,10].The first palladium-catalyzed copolymerization of carbon monoxide (CO) with olefins was described in 1982 [11], and as a consequence, carbonylative coupling reactions with alkenes were reported soon after. Notably, it was Negishi and Miller who discovered the first two examples of intramolecular carbonylative Heck reactions of 1-iodopenta-1,4-dienes by applying stoichiometric amounts of palladium [12]. 5-Methylenecyclopent-2-enones as the products were produced in moderate yields (Scheme 7.1).However, using 1a-1e as substrates, no desired carbonylation products were detected, although the complete conversion of starting material occurred. Presumably, the polymerization of 1a-1e (Scheme 7.2) took place [13]. Negishi and Miller's group improved the methodology two years later [14]. In their new methodology, 1a-1e were applied as starting materials and the corresponding products were obtained in moderate to excellent yields using catalytic amounts of palladium salts in the presence of MeOH. A possible reaction mechanism was proposed, and ''CO-free'' carbonylative Heck reactions were realized. 2-Methylene-2,3-dihydro-inden-1-one 1g was produced from the corresponding acid chloride 1f in a 50 % yield under ''CO-free'' conditions. Negishi et al. continued their interest in this topic by synthesizing various quinones using o-iodoaryl cyclohexyl ketones as the starting materials [15]. In the presence of Pd(dba) 2 as a catalyst (5 mol %) and under CO pressure (41 bar), quinones were produced in good yields with 100 % regioselectivity (Scheme 7.3).