text: In practical sense, the most important reaction of metal acyls is their detachment by reductive elimination of aldehydes from acyl metal hydrides:
  :LMC(O)R(H) → LM + RCHO
  This reaction is the final step of hydroformylation.
  Another important reaction is decarbonylation. This reaction requires that the acyl complex be coordinatively unsaturated:
  :LMC(O)R → LM(CO)R + L
  :LMC(O)R → LM(CO)R
  The oxygen center of acyl ligands is basic. This aspect is manifested in O-alkylations, which converts acyl complexes to alkoxycarbene complexes: