Contemporary carbene chemistry

Preface     PART 1: PROPERTIES AND REACTIONS OF CARBENES     1 Carbene Stability  S. Gronert and R. M. O   Ferrall     2 Stable Carbenes  J. P. Moerdyk and C. W. Bielawski 3 Acid-Base Chemistry of Carbenes  A. M. O   Donoghue and R. S. Massey     4 Computational Methods for the Study of Carbenes and their Excited States  H. L. Luk, S. Vyas, and C. M. Hadad     5 Dynamics in Carbene Reactions  D. Merrer, K. Houk, and L. Xu     6 Ultrafast Kinetics of Carbene Reactions  G. Burdzinski and M. S. Platz 7 Tunneling in the Reactions of Carbenes and Oxacarbenes  D. Gerbig and P. R. Schreiner     8 Carbodicarbenes  G. Frenking and R. Tonner     9 Catalytic Reactions with N-Mesityl Substituted N-Heterocyclic Carbenes  J. Mahatthananchai and J.  W. Bode     10 Supramolecular Carbene Chemistry  U. Brinker, J.-L. Mieusset, and M. G.        Rosenberg     PART 2: METAL CARBENES     11 Modern Lithium Carbenoid Chemistry  V. Capriati 12 Rhodium Carbenes  H. Davies and B. Parr     13 Ruthenium Carbenes  S. T. Diver and J. M. French 14 Nucleophilic Carbenes of the Chromium Triad  Z. J. Tonzetich     15 Cobalt-Mediated Carbene Transfer Reactions  X. Cui and X. P. Zhang     16 Gold Carbenes  L. Zhang