Synthesis and Application of Highly Substituted Cyclopentadienes -- Synthesis of 1,2-Disubstituted Cyclopentadienes and Their Application -- Synthesis and application of novel chiral Cp ligands in transition metal catalysis -- Selective synthesis of and with chiral ferrocenes -- Knölker-type catalysts for (asymmetric) hydrogenation reactions -- Selective transformations mediated by group 4 metal cyclopentadienyl complexes -- Naturally Occurring Cyclopentadienes and Cyclopentadienyl Anions -- Naturally Occurring Diazofluorenes.

This book presents the latest synthetic protocols for the assembly of functionalized Cp ligands and their transition metal complexes. Cyclopentadienyl (Cp) complexes of transition metals belong to the most important classes of transition metal complexes with s-bound ligands in the coordination sphere since their discovery in the middle of the last century. Even though known for a long time, this class of complexes constantly evolves to deliver novel modified Cp ligands and to blossom into new fields of application. As well as the synthesis of ligands and complexes this book concentrates on novel and prospering fields of application in organic synthesis. In this respect the Cp complexes have been applied to induce and catalyze various chemical transformations such as new C-C bond formation involving unsaturated substrates (e.g. cyclotrimerizations, cycloadditions, carbometallations, etc.), the C―H bond and C―C activations followed by subsequent reactions (e.g. arylation, alkenylations, annulations, etc.), as well as many other processes which are discussed. This volume also covers the recent application of chiral Cp complexes in enantioselective synthesis and as essential parts of many ligand systems. .