The past few years have witnessed an ever-increasing interest in the chemistry of
compounds that contain two or more metal centers. A wide variety of transition metal cluster …

This chapter reviews the reaction chemistry of uranium complexes with small molecules of
industrial and biological importance. Specifically, carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen monoxide …

The conversion of carbon monoxideand dihydrogen to larger molecules, especially those
with carbon number greater than one, has become a conspicuously challenging problem. In …

Methanol is a basic industrial chemical that is produced in the United States at an annual
rate of over one billion gallons [1]. It is used as a solvent in many industrial processes, as a …

The propensity for the group4B metal center to form extremely strong bonds with oxygen and
nitrogen donors is often invoked as an important driving force in the reductions of carbon …

Finding novel pathways for the reduction of carbon oxides is important for the ongoing
search for new systematic entries to hydrocarbon feedstocks. The CO to formyl conversion …

Recent approaches to the homogeneous conversion of synthesis gas to organic chemicals
and fuels are reviewed. Progress in this field is placed in the context of important industrially …

Organometallic carbonylation reactions sometimes follow complicated pathways. As a
typical and im-portant example for this often undesirable feature, transition-metal-mediated …

Ab initio calculations are reported on several transition metal carbenes and their dissociated
fragments. In a better than minimal basis set, the orbitals involving the metal-carbene double …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the roles played by certain nucleophile adducts
of metal–coordinated carbon monoxide in the stoichiometric and catalytic chemistry of metal …