PATAI's Chemistry of Functional Groups publishes comprehensive reviews on all aspects of specific functional groups. Each volume contains outstanding surveys on theoretical and computational aspects, NMR, MS, other spectroscopic methods and analytical chemistry, structural aspects, thermochemistry, photochemistry, synthetic approaches and strategies, synthetic uses and applications in chemical and pharmaceutical industries, biological, biochemical, and environmental aspects. To date, over 150 volumes have been published in the series.The present volume is the first in the series to survey the properties and chemical behavior of organocobalt compounds, as well as their use in small- and large-scale organic synthesis. Organocobalt compounds have important uses as catalysts in cross-coupling and cycloaddition reactions, as well as in industrial-scale hydroformylation and carbonylation processes.

1 Structural chemistry of organocobalt compounds 1Sandip Munshi and Tapan K. Paine2 Mass spectrometry of organocobalt derivatives 45Konrad Koszinowski3 Some aspects of the energetics of species containingcobalt-carbon bonds 65Maja Ponikvar-Svet and Joel F. Liebman4 Cobaloxime complex-mediated organic chemistry 83Mark E.Welker5 Electrochemistry of organocobalt compounds 103Olivier Buriez and Eric Labbe6 Electrochemical cobalt-catalyzed C.H activations with potential 139Ruhuai Mei, Ramesh C. Samanta, Uttam Dhawa, Wenbo Maand Lutz Ackermann7 Cobalt-catalyzed C.H activation 171Naohiko Yoshikai8 Cobalt-catalyzed carbonylation reactions 235Priyanka Chakraborty, Rajib Mandal, and Basker Sundararaju9 Cobalt-catalyzed reductive cross-coupling reactions 283Corinne Gosmini and Audrey Auffrant10 Cobalt-catalyzed [2 + 2 + 2] cycloaddition reactions 301Tim Gläsel and Marko Hapke11 Cobalt-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions 371Lorena Capdevila and Xavi Ribas12 Nicholas reaction 425Azusa Kondoh and Masahiro Terada13 Cobalt-catalyzed alkene hydrogenation 461Lu Qian, Guixia Liu, and Zheng Huang14 Cobalt N-heterocyclic carbene complexes in organic synthesis 487Yajie Chou and Hervé ClavierSubject index 541