"Among the myriad new methodological strategies developed over the past 50 years, none have impacted the construction of organic molecules as much as those transformations categorized as cross-coupling reactions. Most of these reactions rapidly assumed their current status as "name reactions," including the Suzuki-Miyaura, Negishi, Kumada-Tamao/Corriu, Stille/Migita-Kosugi, Tamao-Kumada/Hiyama-Hatanaka and Sonogashira cross-couplings, as well as the Mizoroki-Heck, Tsuji-Trost and Buchwald-Hartwig reactions. All cross-couplings are inextricably linked by one common theme: they employ catalyst systems comprised of various metal complexes and ligands that promote the reactions through catalytic cycles in which many of the individual steps are analogous. For this reason this Handbook focuses on the individual components of catalyst systems. Many of these may be organized into "super-families" of compounds that are constituted from similar molecular platforms. An attempt has been made to group these under a single parent compound."--BOOK JACKET.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.