Chapter 1 A General Survey and Recent Advances in the Activation of Unreactive Chemical Bonds by Metal Complexes

Chapter 2 Activation of C-H Bonds: Stoichiometric Reactions

Chapter 3 Activation of C-H Bonds: Catalytic Reactions

Chapter 4 Catalytic Activation of Methane and Ethane by Metal Compounds

Chapter 5 Cleavage of Carbon—Carbon Single Bonds by Transition Metals

Chapter 6 Activation of Si—Si Bonds by Transition-Metal Complexes

Chapter 8 Activation of Otherwise Unreactive C-Cl Bonds

Chapter 9 Activation of the N-N Triple Bond in Molecular Nitrogen: Toward its Chemical Transformation into Organo-Nitrogen Compounds

Chapter 10 Metal Reagents for Activation and Functionalization of Carbon-Fluorine Bonds