The Chemistry of Organomagnesium Compounds

1. Structural organomagnesium chemistry (Johann T.B.H. Jastrzebski, Jaap Boersma and Gerard van Koten). 2. The thermochemistry of organomagnesium compounds (Joel F. Liebman, Torkil Holm and Suzanne W. Slayden). 3. NMR of organomagnesium compounds (Peter J. Heard). 4. Formation, chemistry and structure of organomagnesium species in solvent-free environments (Richard A. J. O'Hair). 5. Photochemical transformations involving magnesium porphyrins and phthalocyanines (Natalia N. Sergeeva and Mathias O. Senge). 6. Electrochemistry of organomagnesium compounds (Jan S. Jaworski). 7. Analytical aspects of organomagnesium compounds (Jacob Zabicky). 8. Biochemistry of magnesium (James Weston). 9. Theoretical studies of the addition of RMgX to carbonyl compounds (Shinichi Yamabe and Shoko Yamazaki). 10. Organomagnesium-group 15-and Organomagnesium-group 16-bonded complexes (Katherine L. Hull and Kenneth W. Henderson). 11. Preparation and reactivity of Magnesium enolates (Claude Grison). 12. Functionalized organomagnesium compounds: Synthesis and reactivity (Paul Knochel, Andrey Gavryushin and Katja Brade). 13. Iron-Catalyzed reactions of Grignard Reagents (Gerard Cahiez and Christophe Duplais). 14. Carbomagnesiation reactions (Kenichiro Itami and Jun-ichi Yoshida). 15. The chemistry of organomagnesium ate complexes (Hideki Yorimitsu and Koichiro Oshima). 16. The chemistry of magnesium carbenoids (Tsuyoshi Satoh). 17. Catalytic enantioselective conjugate addition and allylic alkylation reactions using Grignard reagents (Fernando Lopez, Adriaan J. Minnaard and Ben L. Feringa). Author Index. Subject Index.