The field of organometallic chemistry has emerged over the last twenty-five years or so to become one of the most important areas of chemistry, and there are no signs of abatement in the intense current interest in the subject, particularly in terms of its proven and potential application in catalytic reactions involving hydrocarbons. The development of the organometallic/ catalysis area has resulted in no small way from many contributions from researchers investigating palladium systems. Even to the well-initiated, there seems a bewildering and diverse variety of organic reactions that are promoted by palladium(II) salts and complexes. Such homogeneous reactions include oxidative and nonoxidative coupling of substrates such as olefins, dienes, acetylenes, and aromatics; and various isomerization, disproportionation, hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, car bonylation and decarbonylation reactions, as well as reactions involving formation of bonds between carbon and halogen, nitrogen, sulfur, and silicon. The books by Peter M. Maitlis - The Organic Chemistry of Palladium, Volumes I, II, Academic Press, 1971 - serve to classify and identify the wide variety of reactions, and access to the vast literature is available through these volumes and more recent reviews, including those of J. Tsuji [Accounts Chem. Res. , 6, 8 (1973); Adv. in Organometal. , 17, 141 (1979)], R. F. Heck [Adv. in Catat. , 26, 323 (1977)], and ones by Henry [Accounts Chem. Res. , 6, 16 (1973); Adv. in Organometal. , 13, 363 (1975)]. F. R. Hartley's book - The Chemistry of Platinum and Palladium, App!. Sci. Pub!.

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I Introduction and Background.- A. General and Historical.- B. Inorganic Chemistry of Palladium.- C. Organometallic Chemistry of Palladium.- D. The Two Basic Reactions of Catalysis and Examples of Each in Stable Palladium Organometallic Chemistry.- II Oxidation of Monoolefins.- A. General.- B. Formation of Aldehydes and Ketones.- C. Production of Esters.- D. Production of Ethers and Acetals in Alcohols.- E. Formation of CarbonCarbon Bonds.- F. Formation of CarbonNitrogen Bonds.- G. Formation of CarbonHalogen Bonds.- H. Formation of CarbonSulfur Bonds.- I. Formation of CarbonSilicon Bonds.- J. Reaction of Monoolefins with (Ph3P)2PdO2.- K. Formation of Nitrates.- III Reaction of Dienes and Polyenes.- A. Nonconjugated Dienes.- B. Conjugated Diolefins.- IV ?-Allyl Complexes.- A. General.- B. Formation and Structure.- C. Reactions of ?-Allyl Complexes.- V Reactions of Acetylenes.- A. General.- B. Oxidative Reactions.- C. Nonoxidative Reactions.- VI Reactions of Aromatic Compounds.- A. Stable Palladium(II) Aryls.- B. Formation of CarbonOxygen Bonds: Aromatic Acetoxylation.- C. Formation of CarbonCarbon Bonds.- D. Formation of other Aromatic Bonds.- E. Mechanism of Aromatic Substitution Reactions.- VII Miscellaneous Reactions.- A. Benzylic Oxidation.- B. Oxidative Dehydrogenation.- C. Reactions of Carbonyl-Containing Compounds.- D. Reaction of CO Bonds.- E. Nitrogen-Containing Functional Groups.- F. Oxidation of Cyclopropanes.- G. Miscellaneous CO Reactions.- H. S and Si Containing Reactants.- Indexes.