List of Abbreviations. General Properties of Organometallic Complexes. The Metal-Carbon and Metal-Hydrogen Bonds. Ligand Substitution Reactions. Complexes of Pi-Bound Ligands. Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination. Insertion and Elimination. Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Addition and Abstraction.

Homogeneous Catalysis. Characterization of Organometallic Compounds. Carbenes, Metathesis and Polymerization. The Activation of Small Molecules. Clusters and the Metal-Metal Bond. Applications to Organic Synthesis. Oxidation and High-Oxidation-State Complexes. Bioorganometallic Chemistry.

Solutions to Problems. Index.