Organic Synthesis Using Transition Metals is demonstrated by the large number of publications coming from the process development laboratories of pharmaceutical companies.

Organic Synthesis Using Transition Metals considers the ways in which transition metals, as catalysts and reagents, can be used in organic synthesis.

Contents

1. Coupling Reactions

• Lithium and Magnesium
• Zinc: the Negishi Reaction
• Aluminium and Zirconium
• Tin: the Stille Reaction
• Boron: the Suzuki Reaction
• Copper
• Choosing the Right Coupling Reaction
• Coupling of Enolates
• Coupling with Aromatic Hydrocarbons
• Homocoupling
• Heteroatom Coupling Reactions

2. Carbonylation

• Carbonylative Coupling Reactions
• Carbonylation of Alkenes
• Carbonylation Using Iron and Cobalt Acyl Complexes
• η³-Allyl Carbonyl Complexes
• Decarbonylation Reactions

3. Alkene and alkyne insertion reactions

• The Heck Reaction
• Insertion Reactions Involving Zirconium and Titanium

4. Electrophilic alkene complexes

• Electrophilic Palladium Alkene Complexes
• Electrophilic Iron Complexes

5. Reactions of alkyne complexes

• Alkyne Cobalt Complexes

6. Carbene complex chemistry

• Chromium Carbenes
• Vinylidene and Carbyne Complexes
• Tebbe's Reagent
• Alkene Metathesis
• Rhodium Catalysed Carbene Reactions

7. π-Allyl complexes

• η³-Allyl Palladium Complexes
• Electrphilic π-Allyl Complexes

8. Diene, dienyl and arene complexes

• η⁴-Diene Compkexes
• η⁵-Dienyl Complexes
• η⁶-Arene Complexes of Chromium and Other Metals
• η²-Arene Complexes

9. Cycloisomerization and formal cycloaddition reactions

• Formal Six Electron, Six Atom Cycloadditions
• Cycloadditions Involving Fewer Than Six Atoms
• Cycloadditions Involving More Than Six Atoms
• Cycloisomerization and Related Reactions

Index

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