Alkane C-H Activation by Single-Site Metal Catalysis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pérez, Pedro J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Catalysis by Metal Complexes, 38
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Organic chemistry.; Catalysis.; Organic Chemistry.

Over the past decade, much research effort has been devoted to the design and synthesis of new reagents and catalysts that can influence carbon-hydrogen bond activation, mainly because of the prospect that C−H activation could enable the conversion of cheap and abundant alkanes into valuable functio...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Robert G. Bergman
• Introduction: Alkane C—H Activation by Single-Site Metal Catalysis
• Alkane Functionalization via Electrophilic Activation
• Catalytic Carbon–Boron Bond Formation via Activation of Alkane C–H Bonds
• Alkane Dehydrogenation
• Alkane C-H Oxygenation Catalyzed by Transition Metal Complexes
• Alkane Catalytic Functionalization by Carbene or Nitrene Insertion Reactions.