Atmospheric pressure aminocarbonylation of aryl iodides using palladium nanoparticles supported on MOF-5Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: XRD, XPS, ICP, SEM, TEM images of MOFs and supported catalysts, NMR data of the amide products. See DOI: 10.1039/c2cc16808a

An efficient amide synthesis by atmospheric pressure aminocarbonylation using palladium nanoparticles supported on MOF-5 is reported. Interestingly, only 0.5 wt% palladium loading was required to achieve high yields. The catalyst is recyclable and offers negligible palladium leaching. 0.5 wt% Pd-NP/MOF-5 as an efficient and recyclable catalyst for the atmospheric pressure aminocarbonylation.