Fundamental Research in Homogeneous Catalysis

Keynote Lecture.- Basic Concepts of Homogeneous Catalysis with Metal Complexes.- Mechanism and Theoretical Treatises.- Invited Papers.- Free Radical Mechanisms in Homogeneous Catalysis.- Selectivity Control in Homogeneous Catalysis.- Contributed Papers.- Molecular Orbital Approach to ?-? Rearrangements of Organotransition Metal Complexes in Catalysis.- Molecular Orbital Calculations of Carbonyl Compounds of Ni and Cu.- Hydrogen Gas Catalysis of Free Radical Decay Reactions in Organic Solids.- Activation of Small Molecules.- Invited Papers.- Activation of Alipathic C-H and C-C Bonds.- Coordination Polymerization of Olefins and Diolefins.- Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Revisited.- Mechanistic Studies Related to the Olefin Metathesis Reaction.- Reactions of Metallocycles of Nickel, Metallacyclopentanes, Hexanes and Butanes.- Contributed Papers: Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide.- Homogeneous Catalysis of Carbon Monoxide Hydrogenation.- Novel Interpretation of Carbon Oxide Reductions.- Linear Carboxylic Acids from Syngas.- Carbonylation and Homologation of Methanol, Methyl Ethers and Esters in the Presence of Ruthenium Catalysts.- Oxidative Carbonylation Catalysed by Transition Metal Complexes.- Reactivity of Iron-Carbonyl Complexes Introduced into a Zeolite Matrix. Catalytic Precursors in the Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis.- Contributed Papers: Hydrocarbons, Polymerixation and Methatesis.- Reaction-Modes of Unsaturated Three-Membered Carbocycles at Transition-Metal-Catalysts.- Stereoselectivity of Metathesis of Various Acyclic Olefins with Various Group VI Transition Metal Catalysts.- C-H Activation by Low-Valent Iron Complexes.- Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Activation by d8-Metal Complexes; Studies of Electronic and Steric Influences.- New Ways in the Catalytic Expoxidation of Olefins by Hydrogen Peroxide.- Formation of Heterocycles from Aniline and Olefins Catalysed by Group VIII Metal Complexes.- Silicon SubgrQup Organoelement Peroxides in Processes of Transformation of Olefins.- Kinetics and Mechanism of Silver Ion Catalysed Oxidation of Diols with Terminal Hydroxyl Groups by Peroxydisulphate Ion.- Stereochemistry of the Carbometallation of Alkynysilanes by Alkyl (Chloro)Bis-?5 -Cyclopentadienyltitanium and the Initiation of Ethylene Polymerization by Homogeneous Ziegler-Natta Catalysts.- Catalysis of Alkyne Oligomerization by Rhenium Carbonyl Halides.- Novel Aspects of Transition Metal Catalysed Reactions of Carbenes.- Contributed Papers: Oxidation.- Mechanisitic Aspects of the Vanadium(V) Catalysed Oxidation by Hydrogen Peroxide.- The Synthesis of Substituted Benzaldehydes by the Autoxidation of Substituted Toluenes Catalysed by Cobalt and Manganese Complexes.- Contributed Papers: Reduction.- Alkene Hydrogenation on Rhodium Complexes Attached to Chemically Modified Silica Supports.- Iridium Compounds in Homogeneous Hydrogenation.- Metal Cluster Catalysis.- Invited Papers.- Metal Clusters 22. The Polynuclear Rhodium Hydride Set {HRhL2}n.- Rhodium Carbonyl Clusters with Encapsulated Main-Group Atom(s). Structures and Reactivity.- Asymmetric Catalysis.- Invited Papers.- Homogeneous Asymmetric Catalysis by Transition Metal Complexes.- Use of X-ray Crystal Structure in the Study of Asymmetric Catalysis.- Contributed Papers.- Chiral Pyrrolidinephosphine Ligands Application to the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Tetrasubstituted Olefins.- Asymmetric Synthesis: Synthesis of (S) 2,3,5,6-Tetrahydro-6-phenylimidazo [2,l-b]Thiazole (Levamisole).- Hybrid (Anchored or Immobolized) Catalysts.- Invited Papers.- Supported Metal Carbonyl Clusters: Decomposition to Metals and Reactivity.- Contributed Papers.- Photogeneration of Polymer-Anchored Catalytic Species from Iron Carbonyls.- Phosphine Substituted Rhodium Cluster Carbonyls in the Homogeneous and Supported Phases — Characterisation and Catalytic Activity.- Preparation and Characterization of Polymer-Bound Tetrairidium Cluster Catalysts for Ethylene Hydrogenation.- Polymeric Organometallics as Precursors of Polymer Supported Catalysts.- Synthesis and Catalytic Activity of Rh(I) Phosphine Complexes Attached to Polymethylsiloxanes.- Catalysis of Polymer-Bound Palladium Complexes.- Facile Catalytic Hydrogenation with Nitrogen-Anchored Ligands.- The use of ?-Radiation for the Preparation of Supported Metal Complex Catalysts I. The Grafting of 4-Vinylpyridine to Polypropylene.- Biomemetic Catalysis.- Invited Papers.- The Biological and Chemical Fixation of Nitrogen.- The Chemistry of Cytochrome P-450 Catalysed Oxidation Reactions.- Progress in Dioxygen Complexes of Metalloporphyrins.- Contributed Papers.- Free Radical Mechanism of Hydroperoxide-Dependent N-Demethylation Reactions Catalyzed by Hemeproteins.- Catalytic Effects of Micelles on the Reactions of Carbonium Ions with Nucleophiles: Alkaline Fading of Setoglaucine.- Amino Acid Ester Hydrolysis as Promoted by “Naked” Copper (II) Ion and “Free’ Water in Reversed Micelles.- Photocatalysis.- Invited Papers.- Mechanistic Aspects of Solar Energy Storage Reactions Involving Polynuclear Rhodium Isocyanide Complexes. Preparation of New Binuclear Isocynide Complexes of Iridium, Cobalt, Nickel, and Ruthenium.- Contributed Papers.- Photochemical Reactions with Metal Carbonyl Trifluorophosphine Complexes.- Solution Photochemistry and Kinetics of Palladium(II) Complexes.- Photolysis of Alcohol: Fluorescence and Photochemistry of the Charge-Transfer Band In Alcoholic Vanadium Trichloride Solution.- Organic Synthesis via Homogeneous Catalysts.- Invited Papers.- Catalytic Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions Via Metallocycle Intermediates.- Contributed Papers.- Some Cooperative Effects in Catalysis of Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation by Transition Metal Complexes.- Catalytic Decarbonylation of Aldehydes Using Cationic Complexes of Rhodium(I) with Chelating Diphosphine Ligands.- Catalytic Addition of Electrophiles to j3-Dicarbonyls.- Catalyst Synthesis and Characterization.- Contributed Papers.- Organometallic Chemistry of the Lanthanides Under Reductive Conditons.- Dynamics of 3c-2e Bonded Aryl Groups in Arylcopper, -silver, and -Gold Cluster Derivatives.- Bidentate P(III)-N(III) - Rh(I) Complexes: Synthesis from Bicyclophosphoranes and Applications in Homogeneous Catalysis.- 31PN.M.R. Studies of Catalytic Systems Containing Rhodium Complexes of Chelating Diphosphine.- The Nature of Naked Metal Clusters in Solution.- Contributed Paper: General.- Electrochemical Contributions to the Synthesis and Characterization of Active Species in Homogeneous Catalysis.- Transition Metal Activation of Aldehydes: Models for the Homogeneously Catalyzed Reactions.- Catalytic Hydrolysis of Polyphosphates in the Presence of V(IV)/(V) and Mn(II)/(III) Redox Couples.