Chemistry of Organoaluminum Compounds

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). Laurent Micouin leads the research unit "Diversity and Selectivity in Synthesis" at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences at Descartes University in Paris (France). He received his academic degrees from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie and from Paris University, followed by a postdoctorate at the University of Marburg (Germany). The focus of his research is in novel methods for organic synthesis, in the fields of asymmetric synthesis and organometallic chemistry.

• 1. Structure, bonding, and reactivity of organoaluminum molecular species: a computational perspective 1Odile Eisenstein and Hélène Gérard2. Aspects of the chemical energetics of carbon – aluminum bonded species 33Suzanne W. Slayden and Joel F. Liebman3. Mass spectrometry of organoaluminum derivatives 71Rhonda L. Stoddard, Scott Collins, and J. Scott McIndoe4. The use of 27Al NMR to study aluminum compounds: a survey of the last 25 years 87Charlotte Martineau, Francis Taulelle, and Mohamed Haouas5. Electrochemistry of organoaluminum compounds 139Ivgeni Shterenberg, Michael Salama, Yosef Gofer, and Doron Aurbach6. The chemistry of alkynylaluminum species 157Riccardo Piccardi, Laurent Micouin, and Olivier Jackowski7. The chemistry of bis-aluminated compounds 205Seijiro Matsubara8. The chemistry of low-valent organoaluminum species 223Rudolf J. Wehmschulte9. Carboalumination reactions 253Shouquan Huo10. Hydroalumination of alkenes and alkynes 317Adriano C. M. Baroni, Carla C. P. Arruda, and Diego B. Carvalho11. The preparation and cross-coupling reactions of organoaluminum compounds 341Paul Knochel and Vladimir Malakhov12. Organoaluminum compounds and Lewis pairs 379Marcus Layh, Werner Uhl, Ghenwa Bouhadir, and Didier Bourissou13. Organoaluminum compounds in catalytic enantioselective C−C bond forming reactions 425Kevin P. McGrath and Amir H. HoveydaSubject index 483