John F. Hartwig is the Henry Rapoport Chair in Organic Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Hartwig received his A. B. degree from Princeton and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Subsequently, he was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined the Yale University faculty in 1992, and joined the University of Illinois chemistry faculty in July 2006. Professor Hartwig's research focuses on the discovery and mechanistic understanding of organic reactions catalyzed by organometallic complexes. He was one of the originators of palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions to form carbon-heteroatom bonds, as well as palladium-catalyzed coupling of enolates and catalytic functionalization of the terminal C-H bonds in alkanes. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012, was the recipient of the 2008 Mukaiyama Award from the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan, the 2008 International Catalysis Award from the International Association of Catalysis Societies, the 2008 Paul N. Rylander Award of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, the 2007 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Organic Synthesis, the 2007 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences, and the 2006 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry.

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Chapter 1
Structure and Bonding
Chapter 2
Dative Ligands
Chapter 3
Covalent Ligands Bound Through Metal-Carbon and Metal-Hydride Bonds
Chapter 4
Covalent Ligands Bound Through Metal-Heteroatom Bonds
Chapter 5
Ligand Substitution Reactions
Chapter 6
Oxidative Addition of Non-Polar Reagents
Chapter 7
Oxidative Addition of Polar Reagents
Chapter 8
Reductive Elimination
Chapter 9
Migratory Insertion
Chapter 10
Elimination Reactions
Chapter 11
Nucleophilic Attack on Coordinated Ligands
Chapter 12
Electrophilic Attack on Coordinated Ligands
Chapter 13
Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds
Chapter 14
Principles of Catalysis
Chapter 15
Homogenous Hydrogenation
Chapter 16
Hydrofunctionalization and Oxidative Functionalization of Olefins
Chapter 17
Catalytic Carbonylation
Chapter 18
Catalytic C-H Functionalization
Chapter 19
Cross Coupling
Chapter 20
Allylic Substitution
Chapter 21
Catalytic Metathesis of Olefins and Alkynes
Chapter 22
Olefin Polymerization