Front Cover -- Advances in Organometallic Chemistry -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter One: The Selection of Catalysts for Metal Carbene Transformations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Acceptor/Acceptor-Substituted Metal Carbenes -- 3. Acceptor-Substituted Metal Carbenes -- 4. Donor/Acceptor-Substituted Metal Carbenes -- 4.1. Alkyl/Acceptor-Substituted Metal Carbenes -- 4.2. Aryl/Acceptor-Substituted Metal Carbenes -- 4.3. Vinyl/Acceptor-Substituted Metal Carbenes -- 5. Donor- and Donor/Donor-Substituted Metal Carbenes -- 6. Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter Two: Recent Advances in Asymmetric Metal-Catalyzed Carbene Transfer from Diazo Compounds Toward Molecular Complexity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Insertion Reaction -- 2.1. C-H Functionalization -- 2.2. N-H Insertion -- 2.3. O-H Insertion -- 2.4. S-H Insertion -- 2.5. Si-H Insertion -- 2.6. B-H Insertion -- 3. Cycloadditions -- 3.1. [2C+n] Cycloaddition -- 3.2. [3C+n] Cycloaddition -- 3.3. [4C+n] Cycloaddition -- 3.4. [5C+n] Cycloaddition -- 3.5. [6C+n] Cycloaddition -- 3.6. Miscellaneous -- 4. Ylide Formation -- 4.1. Trapping Tactic -- 4.2. Cascade Reaction -- 5. Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter Three: Copper(I)-Acetylides: Access, Structure, and Relevance in Catalysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Oxidative Coupling Reactions -- 2.1. Glaser and Hay Coupling Reactions -- 2.2. Oxidative Cross-Coupling Reactions -- 3. Cross-Coupling Reactions -- 3.1. Group 10-Mediated Reactions: Sonogashira Cross-Coupling -- 3.2. Copper-Mediated Cross-Couplings: Catalytic Castro-Stephens Reactions -- 3.3. Copper-Mediated Cross-Coupling of Diazo Compounds -- 4. Other Coupling Reactions -- 4.1. Carboxylation and Carboxylative Coupling Reactions -- 4.2. A3-Coupling Reactions -- 5. 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions -- 5.1. Azide-Alkyne Cycloadditions and Click Chemistry.

3.4. NMR Studies: Protonation of Metal Alkyls at Very Low Temperatures -- 3.5. Characterization of Alkane Complexes Using Preorganized Vacant Sites -- 3.6. Hydrogenation of Alkenes in the Solid State -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes Added in Proof -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.