The Chemistry of Organoaluminum Compounds

1. Structure, bonding, and reactivity of organoaluminum molecular species: a computational perspective 1 Odile Eisenstein and Hélène Gérard 2. Aspects of the chemical energetics of carbon – aluminum bonded species 33 Suzanne W. Slayden and Joel F. Liebman 3. Mass spectrometry of organoaluminum derivatives 71 Rhonda L. Stoddard, Scott Collins, and J. Scott McIndoe 4. The use of 27Al NMR to study aluminum compounds: a survey of the last 25 years 87 Charlotte Martineau, Francis Taulelle, and Mohamed Haouas 5. Electrochemistry of organoaluminum compounds 139 Ivgeni Shterenberg, Michael Salama, Yosef Gofer, and Doron Aurbach 6. The chemistry of alkynylaluminum species 157 Riccardo Piccardi, Laurent Micouin, and Olivier Jackowski 7. The chemistry of bis-aluminated compounds 205 Seijiro Matsubara 8. The chemistry of low-valent organoaluminum species 223 Rudolf J. Wehmschulte 9. Carboalumination reactions 253 Shouquan Huo 10. Hydroalumination of alkenes and alkynes 317 Adriano C. M. Baroni, Carla C. P. Arruda, and Diego B. Carvalho 11. The preparation and cross-coupling reactions of organoaluminum compounds 341 Paul Knochel and Vladimir Malakhov 12. Organoaluminum compounds and Lewis pairs 379 Marcus Layh, Werner Uhl, Ghenwa Bouhadir, and Didier Bourissou 13. Organoaluminum compounds in catalytic enantioselective C−C bond forming reactions 425 Kevin P. McGrath and Amir H. Hoveyda Subject index 483