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