Advances in Metal Carbene Chemistry

In-Situ Generation of the Benzylidene Complex [Cp(CO)2W=CH(Tol)]+ and Its Reactions with Alkynes.- Carbene Complexes in Selective Organic Synthesis: Novel Applications of Carbene Annulation Reactions.- Formation of C=C Double Bonds by Novel Insertion Reactions of Allenes, Heterocumulenes and Acid Amides Into M=C Bonds of Fischer Carbene Complexes.- Photolytic Reactions of Chromium Carbene Complexes in the Synthesis of Optically Active, Biologically Active Compounds.- 53Cr Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Pentacarbonylchromium Carbene Complexes.- Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of Highly Electrophilic Carbene Complexes of the Type C5H5(CO)(L)Fe=CHR+.- The Carbene Complex Route To Donor-Acceptor-Substituted Cyclopropanes.- Reaction between Pentacarbonylchromium or Tungsten Complexes of Carbenes and Terminal Phosphinidenes.- Alkene-Carbene Complexes of Tungsten and Chromium: Their Reaction with Alkynes.- Reactions of Acetylenes and Alkenes Induced by Catalysts of Olefin Metathesis.- The Reactions of Mo(NtBu)(=CHtBu)(CH2But)2 with Alcohols: Competition between Molybdenum to Carbon Single and Double Bond Reactivities.- The Metathesis Polymerization of Norbornene and Its Derivatives Initiated by Tungsten-Carbene Complexes: Relative Stability of the Intermediate Tungstenacyclobutane Complexes.- The Preparation and Reactivity of Several Alkylidene Complexes of the Type W(CHR?)(N-2, 6-C6H3-iPr2)(OR)2 and Related Tungstacyclobutane Complexes: How the Choice of or Ligand Controls Structure and Metathesis Activity.- On the Presence of Dichloro-W-Carbenes in Photo-Catalytic Olefin Metathesis Reactions.- Studies on Stoichiometric and Catalytic Metathesis and other Reactions of Imines with Fischer Type Carbene Tungsten Complexes. Part XVI.- Metathesis of Alkenes and Polymerisation of Alkynes with Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Schrock-Type Carbene Complexes. Part XVII.- Easily Accessible Methylene Complexes of Molybdenum and Tungsten: Structure and Application in Organic Synthesis.- Organometallic Reagents Prepared by the Reduction of Dihaloalkanes with Low Valent Titanium or Chromium.- Carbene Synthons in Monothioacetal Reactions.- The Determination of Electron Density Distributions in Organometallic Compounds - Recent Experimental Results.