Aspects of Homogeneous Catalysis

of Volume 2.- Hydroformylation of Olefins with Carbonyl Derivates of the Noble Metals as Catalysts.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Comparison of the Activity of Group VIII Metals.- 3. Hydroformylation with Rhodium Complexes as Catalysts.- 4. Hydroformylation with Iridium Complexes as Catalysts.- 5. Hydroformylation with Ruthenium and Osmium Complexes as Catalysts.- 6. Hydroformylation with Palladium and Platinum Catalysts.- 7. Hydrogenation of Aldehydes with Carbonyl Derivatives of the Noble Metals as Catalysts.- 8. Recent Results.- 9. Conclusions.- 10. References.- Addition of hydrogen cyanide to mono-olefins catalyzed by transition metal complexes.- 1. Introduction and scope.- 2. Interaction of hydrogen cyanide with metal complexes.- 3. Hydrocyanation of non-activated olefins.- 4. The proposed mechanisms of hydrocyanation.- 5. Hydrocyanation of activated olefins.- 6. Recent results.- 7. Conclusion.- 8. References.- Nickel Catalyzed Syntheses of Methyl-Substituted Cyclic Olefins, an Example of Stepwise Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation Promoted by a Transition Metal Complex.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Cope Rearrangement of 1,5-dienes.- 3. Preparation of monomethyl derivatives by methylene insertion reaction (MIR).- 4. Preparation of dimethyl derivatives by MIR.- 5. Identification of isomers using the combination gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.- 6. Catalytic syntheses of mono and dimethyl substituted ring olefins.- 7. Mechanism of carbon-carbon bond formation promoted by low valent nickel catalysts.- 8. Some general aspects of carbon-carbon and carbon-hydrogen bond formation promoted by transition metals.- 9. References.- Dimerization of Acrylic Compounds.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Thermal and photo dimerization.- 3. Dimerization by alkali metal amalgams and direct electrolysis.- 4. Phosphine-catalyzed dimerization.- 5. Dimerization by transition metal complexes.- 6. Conclusion.- 7. References.