N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Catalytic Organic Synthesis, Workbench Edition

The reference work "Science of Synthesis: N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Catalytic Organic Synthesis" provide a user's guide to NHC chemistry and catalysis, thus facilitating the introduction of NHCs to novices and also helping to expand the repertoire of synthetic tools available to the more-advanced researcher, enabling the design of new catalysts and reactions.
Volume 1 provides a detailed introduction to NHCs, with discussion of their architectures and steric and electronic properties.
Volume 2 covers the use of NHCs in the various types of metathesis reaction, polymerization, cyclization reactions, oxidation reactions, and carbonylation/carboxylation reactions.