Preface
1: Organometallic C-H Bond Activation: An Introduction
Alan S. Goldman and Karen I. Goldberg:
Oxidative Addition Reactions
2: Steven R. Klei, Kian L. Tan, Jeffrey T. Golden, Cathleen M. Yung, Reema K. Thalji, Kateri A. Ahrendt, Jonathan A. Ellman, T. Don Tilley, and Robert G. Bergman: C-H Bond Activation by Iridium and Rhodium Complexes: Catalytic Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange and C-C Bond-Forming Reactions
3: William D. Jones, Andrew J. Vetter, Douglas D. Wick, and Todd O. Northcutt: Alkane Complexes as Intermediates in C-H Bond Activation Reactions
4: C-C versus C-H Bond Oxidative Addition in PCX (X=P,N,O) Ligand Systems: Facility, Mechanism, and Control
5: Kevin E. Janak, David G. Churchill, and Gerard Parkin: Kinetic and Equilibrium Deuterium Isotope Effects for C-H Bond Reductive Elimination and Oxidative Addition Reactions Involving the Ansa-Tungstenocene Methyl-Hydride Complex [Me2Si(C2Me4)2]W(Me)H
6: Alkane C-H Bond Activation by O-Doner Ir Complexes
Guarav Bhalla, Xiang Yang Liu, Antek Wong-Foy, C.J. Jones, and Roy A. Periana:
7: Lionel Perrin, Laurent Maron, and Odile Eisenstein: Lanthanide Complexes: Electronic Structure and H-H, C-H, and Si-H Bond Activation from a DFT Perspective
C-H Bond Activations in Organic Synthesis, Alkane Dehydrogenation, and Related Chemistry
8: John F. Hartwig: Catalytic, Thermal, Regioselective Functionalization of Alkanes and Arenes with Borane Reagents
9: Dalibor Sames: C-H Bond Functionalization in Complex Organic Synthesis
10: Anthony R. Chianese and Robert H. Crabtree: Pincer and Chelate NR-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Rh, Ir, and Pd: Synthetic Routes, Dynamics, Catalysis, Abnormal Binding, and Counterion Effects
11: Peter Legzdins and Craig B. Pamplin: Sequential Hydrocarbon C-H Bond Actvations by 16-Electron Organometallic Complexes of Molybdenum and Tungsten
12: Alan S. Goldman, Kenton B. Renkema, Margaret Czerw, and Karsten Krogh-Jespersen: Alkane Transfer-Dehydrogenation Catalyzed by a Pincer-Ligated Iridium Complex
13: Karsten Krogh-Jespersen, Margaret Czerw, and Alan S. Golman: DFT Calculations on the Mechanism of (PCP)Ir-Catalyzed Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Alkanes: Realistic Computational Models and Free Energy Considerations
14: Double Cyclometalation: Implications for C-H Oxidative Addition with PCP Pincer Compounds of Iridium
Hani A.Y. Mohammad, Jost C. Grimm, Klaus Eichele, Hans-Georg Mack, Bernd Speiser, Filip Novak, William C. Kaska, and Herman A. Mayer:
Activation of C-H Bonds by Pt(II) (Shilov) Chemistry
15: Alan F. Heyduk, H. Annita Zhong, Jay A. Labinger, and John E. Bercaw: C-H Bond Activation at Pt(II): A Route to Selective Alkane Oxidation?
16: Mats Tilset, Lars Johansson, Martin Lersch, and Bror J. Wik: Competitive Trapping of Equilibrating Pt(IV) Hydridoalkyl and Pt(II) Alkane Complexes: A Valuable Tool for the Mechanistic Investigation of C-H Activation Reactions
17: Jennifer L. Look, Ulrich Fekl, and Karen I. Goldberg: Mechanisms of Reactions Related to Selective Alkane Oxidation by Pt Complexes
18: Cynthia M. Norris and Joseph L. Templeton: Hydrocarbon C-H Bond Activation with Tp'Pt Complexes
19: Carl N. Iverson, Charles A.G. Carter, John D. Scollard, Melanie A. Pribisko, Kevin D. John, Brian L. Scott, R. Tom Baker, John E. Bercaw, and Jay A. Labinger: C-H Bond Activation with Neutral Platinum Methyl Complexes
20: Jonal C. Peters, J. Christopher Thomas, Christine M. Thomas, and Theodore A. Betley: Issues Relevant to C-H Activation at Platinum(II): Comparative Studies between Cationic, Zwitterionic, and Neutral Platinum(II) Compounds in Benzene Solution
Oxidations
21: James M. Mayer, Anna S. Larsen, Jasmine R. Bryant, Kun Wang, Mark Lockwood, Gordon Rice, and Tae-Jin Won: Non-Organometallic Mechanisms for C-H Bond Oxidation: Hydrogen Atom versus Electron versus Hydride Transfer
22: Patricia A. Shapley: Oxidation of Organic Molecules with Molecular Oxygen Catalyzed by Herometallic Complexes
23: Joseph E. Remias and Ayusman Sen: Catalytic Hydrocarbon Oxidations Involving Coreductants
24: Vladimir V. Grushin, David L. Thorn, William J. Marshall, and Viacheslav A. Petrov: New Applications of Electrophilic Aromatic C-H Activation with Metal Trifluoroacetates
25: Sergiu M. Gorun: Reengineering of Organic-Based Metal Active Sites for Oxidations and Oxygenations
Author Index
Subject Index