Recent advances in the stille reaction, Vittorio Farnia, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Gregory P. Roth, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research-Institute; recent improvements and developments of Heck-Type and their potential in organic synthesis, T. Jeffrey, Ecole Laboratoire de Chimie, France; seven-membered ring synthesis via iron mediated carbonylative ring expansion and -alkyl -allyl com-plexes, Pete Eilbracht, University of Gesamthochsch, Germany; new catalytic asymmetric carbon-carbon bond forming re-actions, Masakatsu Shibasaki, University of Tokyo; Index.
