Table of Contents

1. Theory of organocopper-mediated reactions (Eiichi Nakamura and Naohiko Yoshikai).

2. Structural organocopper chemistry (Gerard van Koten and Johann T. B. H. Jastrzebski).

3. Thermochemistry of organocopper compounds (Joel F. Liebman and Suzanne W. Slayden).

4. NMR spectra of organocopper compounds (Tobias Gärtner and Ruth M. Gschwind).

5. Photochemical transformations involving copper porphyrins and phthalocyanines (Natalia N. Sergeeva and Mathias O. Senge).

6. Electrochemistry of organocopper compounds (Jan S. Jaworski).

7. Gas-phase chemistry of organocopper compounds (Al Mokhtar Lamsabhi, Manuel Yáñez, Jean-Yves Salpin and Jeanine Tortajada).

8. Biochemistry of organocopper compounds (Martha E. Sosa-Torres, Juan Pablo Saucedo-Vázquez, Saul Gómez-Manzo and Peter M. H. Kroneck).

9. N -Functionalized organocuprates (R. Karl Dieter and Rhett T. Watson).

10. Transmetalation reactions producing organocopper compounds (Christopher J. Rosenker and Peter Wipf).

11. Carbocupration of alkynes (Fabrice Chemla and Franck Ferreira).

12. Oxidation of organocopper compounds (Sarah J. Aves and David R. Spring).

13. Copper-mediated asymmetric allylic alkylations (Claude Spino).

14. Copper-catalyzed enantioselective conjugate addition (Damien Polet and Alexandre Alexakis).

15. Copper(I) hydride reagents and catalysts (Olivier Riant).

16. Silyl and stannyl derivatives of organocopper compounds (Francisco J. Pulido and Asunción Barbero).

17. Copper-mediated and copper-catalyzed addition and substitution reactions of extended multiple bond systems (Norbert Krause and Özge Aksin-Artok).

18. Copper-mediated cross-coupling reactions (Liza Penn and Dmitri Gelman).

19. Fluorinated organocopper reagents (Charles R. Davis and Donald J. Burton).

Author index.

Subject index.

About the Author

Professor Zvi Rappoport, Department of Organic Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Professor Ilan Marek, Department of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.

Reviews

"This book continues the high standard of "The Chemistry of Functional Groups" series and is an essential resource for professional organic and inorganic chemists and their research groups who have an interest in organometallic chemistry. It could also prove useful in postgraduate teaching for designing a modern course on the subject. With the recent report of the first crystallographically characterized Mg - Mg bonded compound, this area is likely to increase in popularity and research activity; thus, the publication of this book is timely. A copy should be made available in every library that houses a section on advanced chemistry at the postgraduate level and above." ("Journal of the American Chemical Society," November 12, 2008)