Professor Zvi Rappoport, Department of Organic Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.Ilan Marek is Professor of Chemistry at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He was educated in France and received his PhD thesis in 1988 from the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. He has been visiting Professor at the University de Montreal (Canada); University of Strasbourg (France); University Paris-Descartes (France); California Institute of Technology (USA) and at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier (France). He was a member of the International Scientific Committee of the European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC), including the position of Chairman (2007-2009) and is currently the chairman of the division of organic chemistry, European Association of Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS).

"This book continues the high standard of The Chemistry of Functional Groups series and is an essential resource for professional organic and inorganic chemists and their research groups who have an interest in organometallic chemistry. It could also prove useful in postgraduate teaching for designing a modern course on the subject. With the recent report of the first crystallographically characterized Mg - Mg bonded compound, this area is likely to increase in popularity and research activity; thus, the publication of this book is timely. A copy should be made available in every library that houses a section on advanced chemistry at the postgraduate level and above." (Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 12, 2008)

• 1. Structural organomagnesium chemistry (Johann T.B.H. Jastrzebski, Jaap Boersma and Gerard van Koten). 2. The thermochemistry of organomagnesium compounds (Joel F. Liebman, Torkil Holm and Suzanne W. Slayden).3. NMR of organomagnesium compounds (Peter J. Heard).4. Formation, chemistry and structure of organomagnesium species in solvent-free environments (Richard A. J. O'Hair).5. Photochemical transformations involving magnesium porphyrins and phthalocyanines (Natalia N. Sergeeva and Mathias O. Senge).6. Electrochemistry of organomagnesium compounds (Jan S. Jaworski).7. Analytical aspects of organomagnesium compounds (Jacob Zabicky).8. Biochemistry of magnesium (James Weston).9. Theoretical studies of the addition of RMgX to carbonyl compounds (Shinichi Yamabe and Shoko Yamazaki).10. Organomagnesium-group 15-and Organomagnesium-group 16-bonded complexes (Katherine L. Hull and Kenneth W. Henderson).11. Preparation and reactivity of Magnesium enolates (Claude Grison).12. Functionalized organomagnesium compounds: Synthesis and reactivity (Paul Knochel, Andrey Gavryushin and Katja Brade).13. Iron-Catalyzed reactions of Grignard Reagents (Gérard Cahiez and Christophe Duplais).14. Carbomagnesiation reactions (Kenichiro Itami and Jun-ichi Yoshida).15. The chemistry of organomagnesium ate complexes (Hideki Yorimitsu and Koichiro Oshima).16. The chemistry of magnesium carbenoids (Tsuyoshi Satoh).17. Catalytic enantioselective conjugate addition and allylic alkylation reactions using Grignard reagents (Fernando López, Adriaan J. Minnaard and Ben L. Feringa).Author Index.Subject Index.

Professor Zvi Rappoport, Department of Organic Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.Ilan Marek is Professor of Chemistry at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He was educated in France and received his PhD thesis in 1988 from the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. He has been visiting Professor at the University de Montreal (Canada); University of Strasbourg (France); University Paris-Descartes (France); California Institute of Technology (USA) and at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier (France). He was a member of the International Scientific Committee of the European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC), including the position of Chairman (2007-2009) and is currently the chairman of the division of organic chemistry, European Association of Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS).

"This book continues the high standard of The Chemistry of Functional Groups series and is an essential resource for professional organic and inorganic chemists and their research groups who have an interest in organometallic chemistry. It could also prove useful in postgraduate teaching for designing a modern course on the subject. With the recent report of the first crystallographically characterized Mg - Mg bonded compound, this area is likely to increase in popularity and research activity; thus, the publication of this book is timely. A copy should be made available in every library that houses a section on advanced chemistry at the postgraduate level and above." (Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 12, 2008)

• 1. Structural organomagnesium chemistry (Johann T.B.H. Jastrzebski, Jaap Boersma and Gerard van Koten). 2. The thermochemistry of organomagnesium compounds (Joel F. Liebman, Torkil Holm and Suzanne W. Slayden).3. NMR of organomagnesium compounds (Peter J. Heard).4. Formation, chemistry and structure of organomagnesium species in solvent-free environments (Richard A. J. O'Hair).5. Photochemical transformations involving magnesium porphyrins and phthalocyanines (Natalia N. Sergeeva and Mathias O. Senge).6. Electrochemistry of organomagnesium compounds (Jan S. Jaworski).7. Analytical aspects of organomagnesium compounds (Jacob Zabicky).8. Biochemistry of magnesium (James Weston).9. Theoretical studies of the addition of RMgX to carbonyl compounds (Shinichi Yamabe and Shoko Yamazaki).10. Organomagnesium-group 15-and Organomagnesium-group 16-bonded complexes (Katherine L. Hull and Kenneth W. Henderson).11. Preparation and reactivity of Magnesium enolates (Claude Grison).12. Functionalized organomagnesium compounds: Synthesis and reactivity (Paul Knochel, Andrey Gavryushin and Katja Brade).13. Iron-Catalyzed reactions of Grignard Reagents (Gérard Cahiez and Christophe Duplais).14. Carbomagnesiation reactions (Kenichiro Itami and Jun-ichi Yoshida).15. The chemistry of organomagnesium ate complexes (Hideki Yorimitsu and Koichiro Oshima).16. The chemistry of magnesium carbenoids (Tsuyoshi Satoh).17. Catalytic enantioselective conjugate addition and allylic alkylation reactions using Grignard reagents (Fernando López, Adriaan J. Minnaard and Ben L. Feringa).Author Index.Subject Index.