Applied Homogeneous Catalysis with Organometallic Compounds A Comprehensive Handbook in Four Volumes

The completely revised third edition of this three-volume classic is fully updated and now includes such topics as self-organization and organocatalysis. It describes the most important reaction types, new methods and recent developments. The internationally renowned editors and a plethora of international authors (including Nobel laureate R. Noyori) guarantee high quality content throughout the book. A "must read" for everyone in academia and industry working in this field.

Boy Cornils has worked at the Ruhrchemie AG in Oberhausen, Germany, where homogeneous catalysis started with the hydroformylation reaction found by Otto Roelen, and with the former Hoechst AG in Frankfurt, Germany. In both locations he was director of the research. He is editor of several bestselling titles.

Wolfgang A. Herrmann is president of the Technical University of Munich and has received several awards for his work in organometallic chemistry, like the Otto-Bayer Medal, the DFG Leibniz Award, the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry, Max Planck Research Award, the GDCh Wilhelm Klemm Award and many more. He has authored a plethora of publications and is the editor of numerous bestselling books.

Matthias Beller is director of the Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis and Professor for Catalysis at the University of Rostock. He has received several awards such as the Otto-Roelen Medal, the DFG Leibniz Award, the first European Prize for Sustainable Chemistry, the Emil Fischer Medal and the Wohler Prize of the German Chemical Society and the Gay-Lussac-Alexander-von-Humboldt Prize.

Rocco Paciello is a research manager at BASF SE in Ludwigshafen, Germany. After experience as a research chemist and assistant plant manager, he became responsible for the homogeneous catalysis group at BASF and has led it for the last fifteen years. The group is focused on finding new technical applications of transition metal catalyzed homogeneous catalysis, such as hydroformylations, carbonylations
and hydrogenations.

INTRODUCTION
APPLIED HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS
Hydroformylation
-General Aspects
-Conventional Processes
-Aqueous Phase Processes
Carbonylations
-Carbonylation: Introduction and General Aspects
-Carbonylation of Methanol and its Derivatives to Acetic Acid and Acetic Anhydride
-Alkyne-Carbonlylation
-Aryl-X and related Carbonylation
-Transition Metal-Catalyzed Oxidative Carbonlyation
-Alternating Copolymerization with Carbon Monoxide
Polymerization & Copolymerization
- General Aspects
-Metallocene-Catalyzed Polyolefins
-Post- and Non-metallocenes for Polymerizations
-Polymerization of 1,3-butadiene with organometallic complexes-based catalysts
-Polycarbonates
Oligomerization & Cyclooligomerization, Dimerisation
-Selective Production of 1-Hexene and 1-Octene
-Dimerization and selective oligomerization
-Telomerization of 1,3-butadiene
-Cyclotrimerization Reactions of Alkynes
Cross coupling reactions (Suzuki, Heck, Buchwald-Hartwig, Sonogashira)
-Coupling Reactions: Introduction and General Aspects
-Industrial applications of Palladium-Catalysed Coupling Reactions
-Ligand-Enabled Palladium-Catalyzed C-N and C-O Bond Formations from Aryl Halides, Tosylates and Mesylates
Oxidation
-General Aspects
-Aromatic Carboxylic Acids
-Oxidation of Olefins to Carbonyl-Compounds (Wacker-Process)
-Radical Chain Oxidations
-Manganese and iron bleaching catalysts
-Catalytic Decarbonylative and Decarboxylative Processes
-Oxidation of Phenol
Hydrosilylation and Related Reactions of Silicon Compounds
Hydrogenation
-Industrial Application of Asymmetric Hydrogenation
-Supercritical Fluids as Advanced Media for Reaction and Separation in Homogeneous Catalysis
-Hydrogenation of Esters
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
New Trends in Organometallic Catalysts
-Iron Catalysis
-Copper-Catalyzed Arylation of Nucleophiles: History, Renaissance and Scalable Reactions
-Rare Earth Metal Catalysts
-Chiral Bronsted Acids/Chiral Frustated Lewis Pairs
New Ligands
-N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
-Phosphorus Ligands in Homogeneous Catalysis
-Host-Guest Relations and Selforganization in Homogeneous Catalysis
-Micellar Catalysis
-Switchable Catalysts
-Catalysis with Transition Metal Pincer Complexes
-Biocatalysis
Recent computational investigations into the Heck type reaction mechanisms
Chemical Reaction Engineering Aspects of Homogeneously Catalyzed Processes
Supported Liquid Phase Catalysis
Recent advances in Surface Organometallic Chemistry
High Throughput Screening of Homogeneous Catalysts: Selected Trends and Applications in Process Development
Homogeneous Photocatalysis with Organometallic Compounds
Electrochemical Water Oxidation and Reduction Catalyzed by Organometallic Compounds
Metal-Catalyzed Multicomponent Reactions
Carbonylation of nitroarenes and aromatic amines
Pauson-Khand Reaction
C-H Activation Coupling Reactions
Metathesis
Isomerization
Catalysis and Scope of the Hydroamination of Non-Activated CC Multiple Bonds
Catalytic Amide Bond Forming Methods
Synthesis of Heterocycles by Pd-catalyzed and Pd-catalysis Initiated Multi-Component Reactions
Metal-Catalyzed Baeyer-Villiger Oxidations
Dihydroxylations of Olefins and Related Reactions
Selective Alkane Oxidation
Catalytic Click Reactions
Sulfur in Catalysis
Oleochemistry
Carbon Dioxide
Electrochemical Water Oxidation and Reduction Catalyzed by Organometallic Compounds
Water Gas Shift Reactions
EPILOGUE