Ruthenium Catalysts and Fine Chemistry / Edition 1

by Christian Bruneau, Pierre H. Dixneuf

Overview

Molecular ruthenium catalysts, during the last decade, have provided new indispensable synthetic methods that cannot be promoted by other catalysts, and they now constitute an emerging field for the selective preparation of fine chemicals. The major reaction types for carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond formation, most of them with atom economy, are comprehensively discussed by leading experts. The authors highlight the most important discoveries in ruthenium catalysis and propose activation processes, some of them being still controversial. They illustrate the innovation and usefulness in organic synthesis of specific reactions including carbocyclization, cyclopropanation, olefin metathesis, carbonylation, oxidation, transformation of silicon containing substrates, and show novel reactions operating via vinylidene intermediates, radical processes, inert bonds activation as well as catalysis in water. Therefore, the reader will receive a balanced view of this rapidly developing field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642058158
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/08/2010
Series:	Topics in Organometallic Chemistry , #11
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Pages:	337
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

S. Dérien, F. Monnier and P.H. Dixneuf: Ruthenium-Catalyzed C–C Bond Formation.- F. Kakiuchi, N. Chatani: Activation of Inert C–H Bonds.- H. Nishiyama: Cyclopropanation with Ruthenium Catalysts.- S.J. Connon, S. Blechert: Recent Advances in Alkene Metathesis.- C. Bruneau: Ruthenium Vinylidenes and Allenylidenes in Catalysis.- L. Delaude, A. Demonceau and A.F. Noels: Ruthenium-Promoted Radical Processes Toward Fine Chemistry.- N. Chatani: Selective Carbonylations with Ruthenium Catalysts.- B. Marciniec, C. Pretraszuk: Synthesis of Silicon Derivatives with Ruthenium Catalysts.- Y. Yamamoto, K. Itoh: Ruthenium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds.- I.W.C.E. Arends, T. Kodama and R.A. Sheldon: Oxidations Using Ruthenium Catalysts.- M. Wang, C.-J. Li: Ruthenium-Catalyzed Organic Synthesis in Aqueous Media