1 General.

1.1 Basic Aspects of Organic Synthesis with Transition Metals (Barry M. Trost).

1.2 Concepts for the Use of Transition Metals in Industrial Fine Chemical Synthesis (Wilhelm Keim).

2 Transition Metal-Catalyzed Reactions.

2.1 Hydroformylation: Applications in the Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals (Matthias Beller and Kamal Kumar).

2.2 New Synthetic Applications of Tandem Reactions under Hydroformylation Conditions (Peter Eilbracht and Axel M. Schmidt).

2.3 Multiple Carbon-Carbon Bond Formations under Hydroformylation Conditions (Peter Eilbracht and Axel M. Schmidt).

2.4 Hydrocarboxylation and Hydroesterification Reactions Catalyzed by Transition Metal Complexes (Bassam El Ali and Howard Alper).

2.5 The Amidocarbonylation of Aldehydes (Axel Jacobi von Wangelin, Helfried Neumann, Dirk Gördes, and Matthias Beller).

2.6 Transition Metal-catalyzed Alkene and Alkyne Hydrocyanations (Albert L. Casalnuovo and T.V. Rajan Babu).

2.7 Cyclopropanation (Andreas Pfaltz).

2.8 Cyclomerization of Alkynes (H. Bönnemann and W. Brijoux).

2.9 Isomerization of Olefin and the Related Reactions (Sei Otsuka and Kazuhide Tani).

2.10 Coupling of Aryl and Alkyl Halides with Organoboron Reagents (Suzuki Reaction) (Alexander Zapf).

2.11 Transition Metal-Catalyzed Arylation of Amines and Alcohols (Alexander Zapf, Matthias Beller, and Thomas H. Riermeier).

2.12 Catalytic Enantioselective Alkylation of Alkenes by Chiral Metallocenes (Amir H. Hoveyda).

2.13 Palladium-Catalyzed Olefinations of Aryl Halides (Heck Reaction) and Related Transformations (Matthias Beller, Alexander Zapf, and Thomas H. Riermeier).

2.14 Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Substitutions (Andreas Heumann).

2.15 Alkene and Alkyne Metathesis in Organic Synthesis (Oliver R. Thiel).

2.16 Homometallic Lanthanoids in Synthesis: Lanthanide Triflate-catalyzed Synthetic Reactions (Sh&umarc; Kobayashi).

2.17 Lanthanide Complexes in Asymmetric Two-Center Catalysis (Masakatsu Shibasaki, Hiroaki Sasai, and Naoki Yoshikawa).

2.18 Bismuth Reagents and Catalysts in Organic Synthesis (Axel Jacobi von Wangelin).

3 Transition Metal-Mediated Reactions.

3.1 Fischer-Type Carbene Complexes (Karl Heinz Dötz and Ana Minatti).

3.2 Titanium–Carbene Mediated Reactions (Nicos A. Petasis).

3.3 The McMurry Reaction and Related Transformations (Alois Fürstner).

3.4 Chromium(II)-Mediated and -Catalyzed C-C Coupling Reactions (David M. Hodgson and Paul J. Comina).

3.5 Manganese(III)-Based Oxidative Free-Radical Cyclizations (Barry B. Snider).

3.6 Titanium-Mediated Reactions (Rudolf O. Duthaler, Frank Bienewald, and Andreas Hafner).

3.7 Zinc-Mediated Reactions (Axel Jacobi von Wangelin and Mathias U. Frederiksen).

3.8 The Conjugate Addition Reaction (A. Alexakis).

3.9 Carbometalation Reactions of Zinc Enolate Derivatives (Daniella Banon-Tenne and Ilan Marek).

3.10 Iron Acyl Complexes (Karola Rück-Braun).

3.11 Iron–Diene Complexes (Hans-Joachim Knölker).

3.12 Chromium-Arene Complexes (Hans-Günther Schmalz and Florian Dehmel).

3.13 Pauson-Khand Reactions (D. Strübing and M. Beller).

Subject Index.