Professor Zvi Rappoport, Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Professor Ilan Marek, Department of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Professor Joel F. Liebman, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland (UMBC), Baltimore, USA.

• 1. Theory of gold-mediated reactions: From single metal site to cluster 1Hui Chen and Yi Gao2. Aurocarbons: Binary gold carbides, binary carbon aurides and their derivatives 31H. Mark Perks and Joel F. Liebman3. Gas phase chemistry of gold 41J. Mathias Weber4. Mass spectrometry of organogold compounds 57Richard A. J. O’Hair5. Electrochemical investigations of organogold compounds 107Jan S. Jaworski6. Gold-promoted sigmatropic rearrangements 149Guilhem Henrion and Fabien Gagosz7. Gold-catalyzed migrations and ring expansions 235Estibaliz Merino, Luis Fernandez and Cristina Nevado8. The chemistry of gold–NHC carbene complexes 307Jun Zhang, Peng Gu, Kai Chen and Min Shi9. The chemistry of gold fluoride complexes 391William J. Wolf and F. Dean Toste10. The chemistry of gold–metal bonds 409Cristian Silvestru and Antonio Laguna11. Synthesis and reactivity of gold–olefin complexes 527Chandrakanta Dash and H. V. Rasika Dias12. The chemistry of gold–allene complexes 567María Paz Muñoz and César Hurtado-Rodrigo13. Gold-catalyzed reactions of cyclopropenes 631Alexis Archambeau, Frederic Miege, Janine Cossy and Christophe Meyer14. Gold-catalyzed and gold-mediated synthesis of heterocycles 701Mie Højer Vilhelmsen and A. Stephen K. Hashmi15. Gold-catalyzed benzannulations 753Balaram S. Takale, Ming Bao and Yoshinori Yamamoto16. Gold-catalyzed hydroarylation of alkynes 805Michael E. Muratore and Antonio M. Echavarren17. Gold-catalyzed addition of HX to alkynes 901Emilie Genin and Veronique Michelet18. Catalysis of organic transformations by gold nanoparticles supported on metal oxides 961Manolis Stratakis and Hermenegildo GarciaSubject index 1019

Professor Zvi Rappoport, Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Professor Ilan Marek, Department of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Professor Joel F. Liebman, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland (UMBC), Baltimore, USA.

• 1. Theory of gold-mediated reactions: From single metal site to cluster 1Hui Chen and Yi Gao2. Aurocarbons: Binary gold carbides, binary carbon aurides and their derivatives 31H. Mark Perks and Joel F. Liebman3. Gas phase chemistry of gold 41J. Mathias Weber4. Mass spectrometry of organogold compounds 57Richard A. J. O’Hair5. Electrochemical investigations of organogold compounds 107Jan S. Jaworski6. Gold-promoted sigmatropic rearrangements 149Guilhem Henrion and Fabien Gagosz7. Gold-catalyzed migrations and ring expansions 235Estibaliz Merino, Luis Fernandez and Cristina Nevado8. The chemistry of gold–NHC carbene complexes 307Jun Zhang, Peng Gu, Kai Chen and Min Shi9. The chemistry of gold fluoride complexes 391William J. Wolf and F. Dean Toste10. The chemistry of gold–metal bonds 409Cristian Silvestru and Antonio Laguna11. Synthesis and reactivity of gold–olefin complexes 527Chandrakanta Dash and H. V. Rasika Dias12. The chemistry of gold–allene complexes 567María Paz Muñoz and César Hurtado-Rodrigo13. Gold-catalyzed reactions of cyclopropenes 631Alexis Archambeau, Frederic Miege, Janine Cossy and Christophe Meyer14. Gold-catalyzed and gold-mediated synthesis of heterocycles 701Mie Højer Vilhelmsen and A. Stephen K. Hashmi15. Gold-catalyzed benzannulations 753Balaram S. Takale, Ming Bao and Yoshinori Yamamoto16. Gold-catalyzed hydroarylation of alkynes 805Michael E. Muratore and Antonio M. Echavarren17. Gold-catalyzed addition of HX to alkynes 901Emilie Genin and Veronique Michelet18. Catalysis of organic transformations by gold nanoparticles supported on metal oxides 961Manolis Stratakis and Hermenegildo GarciaSubject index 1019