Abstract
Metal-catalyzed organic reactions development has been the fastest growing area of new organic chemistry for the past twenty-five years. The field is enormous and it is essentially impossible for any one individual to grasp or catalog. Transition metals, lanthanide metals, and main group metals all have been involved in this explosive expansion of synthetic organic chemistry. A recent two volume set of books, edited by H. Yamamoto and K. Oshima (Main Group Metals in Organic Synthesis, Wiley-VCH, 2004, 901 pp) covers all aspects of the use of main group metals.