Contents
Iron-Catalyzed C–H Bond Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Laurean Ilies and Eiichi Nakamura
Nickel-Catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization Utilizing
an N,N
0 -Bidentate Directing Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Naoto Chatani
Copper-Mediated Intermolecular C–H/C–H and C–H/N–H Couplings
via Aromatic C–H Cleavage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Koji Hirano and Masahiro Miura
The Effects of Ancillary Ligands on Metal–Carbon Bond Strengths
as Determined by C–H Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
William D. Jones
Catalytic C–H Bond Functionalization of Cyclopropane Derivatives . . . 91
Daniela Sustac Roman and Andre ´ B. Charette
Silver-Mediated Direct sp
3 C–H Bond Functionalization . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Taigang Zhou and Zhang-Jie Shi
Applications of Catalytic Organometallic C(sp
3 )–H Bond
Functionalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
David Dailler, Gre ´gory Danoun, and Olivier Baudoin
New Concept of C–H and C–C Bond Activation via Surface
Organometallic Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Manoja K. Samantaray, Raju Dey, Santosh Kavitake, and Jean-Marie Basset
Transfer Dehydrogenations of Alkanes and Related Reactions Using
Iridium Pincer Complexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
David Be ´zier and Maurice Brookhart
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
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