Selective Reactions of Metal-Activated Molecules

I Selective Coupling and Cleavage of Covalent Bonds by Metal Complexes and Metallo Enzymes.- C-O Bonds.- Enantioselective Metal Catalysis.- Direct Asymmetric Epoxidation of Aldehydes Using Catalytic Amounts of Enantiomerically Pure Sulfides.- Transition Metal Complexes as Models for Metallo Enzymes: Mechanistic Studies and Preparative Applications.- The Potential of Selenium-Containing Peroxidases in Asymmetric Catalysis: Glutathione Peroxidase and Seleno-Subtilisin.- Biocatalytic Synthesis of Optically Active Oxyfunctionalized Compounds.- Selective Metal-Catalyzed Oxygen Transfer.- Chemo- and Diastereoselective Epoxidations Catalyzed by Titanium-Containing Zeolites: Evidence for a Hydrogen-Bonded Peroxy-Type Loaded Complex as Oxidizing Species.- Enantioselective Alkylperoxylation of Prochiral Allylic and Benzylic C-H Groups with tert-Butyl Hydroperoxide in the Presence of Chiral Copper Complexes.- Catalytic Activation of Hydrogen Peroxide and Bistrimethylsilyl Peroxide for the Oxidation of Olefins and Aromatic Hydrocarbons.- Ti-TADDOLates and Related Complexes in Asymmetric Synthesis: Ring-Opening Reactions and Cu-Catalyzed Conjugate Additions of Grignard Reagents.- Transition Metal Peroxo Complexes as Versatile Tools in the Oxidative Ring Closure of Substituted 4-Pentenols — The Synthesis of Tetrahydrofurans and Tetrahydrofurans.- Kinetic Resolution of Dihydronaphthalenes by Jacobsen Epoxidation: Evidence for Polar Intermediates and Structure Elucidation by Calculation of CD Spectra.- One-Electron Oxidation of Metal Enolates.- C-C and C-H Bonds.- New Explorations in Metal-Catalyzed Reactions.- The Chemical Reactivity of some Alkenyl Complexes of Iridium.- Asymmetric Allylic Substitutions with Pd Complexes of Phosphinooxazolines as Ligands — Preparative and Mechanistic Aspects.- New Preparations and Reactions of Organozinc Reagents.- Stereoselective Synthesis of Axially Chiral Biaryls Utilizing Planar Chiral (Arene)chromium Complexes.- Metal-Assisted Synthesis and Application of Axially Chiral Biaryl Systems.- Transition-Metal-Mediated Radical Reactions: A Convenient Method for the Synthesis of 2-C-Branched Carbohydrates.- Homogeneous Catalysis in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: A “Better Solution”?.- Stereoselective Hydroformylation of Acyclic Olefins with the Aid of a Catalyst Directing Group.- Fluorenyl Complexes of Zirconium and Hafnium as Catalysts for the Olefin Polymerization.- Orthometalated Rhodium(II) Compounds. Synthesis, Characterization and Catalytic Applications.- Monomeric Organo-Copper(I) Compounds as Organyl Transfer Reagents.- Unsymmetrical Chelating Ligands: The First Peralkylated Phosphino(stibino)- and Phosphino(arsino)methanes and Their Organometallic Rhodium Complexes.- C-C, C-P and C-N Coupling Reactions Mediated by Square-Planar Cumulenylidene Rhodium Complexes.- Structure and Reactivity of 2,6-Bis(diphenylphosphinomethyl)pyridine Complexes of Rhodium (I) and Palladium (II).- C-E and E-E Bonds (E = Heteroatom).- The Unusual Chemistry of Bimetallic Silyl Complexes.- Organotransition-Metal Dendrimers.- Towards Metalloreceptors on the Basis of Square Pyramidal Coordination Caps.- Activation of Small Molecules at Transition Metal Sites.- Organic Transformations with Early-Late Heterobimetallics: Synergism and Selectivity.- Design of Monoanionic Self Adapting N-Heteroaromatic Substituted Claw Ligands.- Enantioselective Organic Syntheses Using Chiral Transition Metal Complexes — The Search for Highly Dissymetric Templates.- Enantioselective Oxidation of Thioethers Using Ruthenium Complexes as Chiral Auxiliaries.- Stereo- and Enantioselective Reactions of Thioaldehydes, Thioketones, Thioketenes, Thionolactones Mediated by Ruthenium Complexes.- Salen-Type Oxo Vanadium Complexes as Catalysts for Sulfoxidation and Epoxidation Reactions with Hydroperoxides.- Metal Mediated Synthesis of Chiral Secondary Phosphane Ligands via the Organophosphenium Complexes Cp(OC)(L)M=P(H)R (M = Mo, W; L = OC, Me3P; R = t-Bu, Mes). — Regiospecific Functionalization of Iron and Ruthenium Substituted Disilanes.- II Spectroscopical and Theoretical Studies on the Structure and Dynamics of Metal Complexes.- Light-Induced Radical Formation from Organometallic Complexes.- The Luminous and the Dark Side of Singlet Oxygen: Comparison Between Photochemical and Chemical Sources of Singlet Oxygen (1O2, 1?g) in Organic Synthesis.- Raman Spectroscopy on Transition Metal Complexes.- Photochemistry Studies by Matrix Isolation Raman Spectroscopy.- Sol-Gel-Processed Functionalized Metalla-Phospha-Adamantanes. Highly Mobile Reaction Centers for Chemistry in Interphases.- Calculation of Structures, Activities and Spectroscopic Properties of Metal-Activated Molecules.- Relativistic Density Functional Calculations on Transition-Metal and Lanthanide Compounds.- Photodissociation Dynamics of Transition Metal Complexes: Quantum Simulation Supported by Wave-packet Propagations.- Time-Dependent Quantum Calculations on the Nuclear Dynamics of Laser Excited Organometallic Molecules.- Ultrafast Photodissociation Dynamics of Isolated Ironpentacarbonyl.