Homogeneous Catalysis

Over the last decade, the area of homogeneous catalysis with transition metal has grown in great scientific interest and technological promise, with research in this area earning three Nobel Prizes and filing thousands of patents relating to metallocene and non-metallocene single site catalysts, asymmetric catalysis, carbon-carbon bond forming metathesis and cross coupling reactions.

Homogeneous catalysis by soluble metal complexes has gained considerable attention due to its unique applications and features such as high activity and selectivity. Catalysis of this type has demonstrated impressive achievements in synthetic organic chemistry and commercial chemical technology.

This volume gives a detailed account into how renewables can be transformed into value-added products via homogeneous catalysis, especially via transiton metal homogeneous catalysis.

This book presents an updated account on the status of the computational modeling of homogeneous catalysis at the beginning of the 21 st century. The development of new methods and the increase of computer power have opened up enormously the reliability of the calculations in this field, and a number of research groups from around the world have seized this opportunity to expand enormously the range of applications. This text collects a good part of their work.