Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Synthetic utility of bulky aluminium reagents as Lewis acid receptors
3: Boron reagents
4: Magnesium (II) and other alkali and alkaline earth metals
5: Zinc (II) reagents
6: Chiral titanium complexes for enantioselective catalysis
7: Tin Lewis acid
8: Silicon (IV) reagents
9: Silver and gold reagents
10: Zr- and Hf-centred Lewis acid in organic synthesis
11: Scandium(III) and yttrium (III) reagents
12: Lanthanides (III) reagents
13: Other transition metal reagents: chiral transition-metal Lewis acid catalysis for asymmetric organic synthesis
14: Lewis acids-assisted anionic polymerizations for synthesis of polymers with controlled molecular weights

About the Author

Professor Dr. Hisashi Yamamoto, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Chikusa Nagoya 464-01, Japan Tel: 81 52 789 3331 j45988a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp