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 tightly bound ligands in the coordination sphere since their discovery in the middle

of the last century. Even though they have been known for a long time, this field 

constantly evolves to deliver novel modified Cp ligands and complexes and to blossom into new

fields of application. Beside the synthesis of ligands and metal complexes this book

concentrates on novel and prospering fields of their application in organic synthesis. In this

respect the Cp complexes have been applied to induce and catalyze various significant chemical

transformations such as new C-C bond formation involving unsaturated substrates (e.g.

cyclotrimerizations, cycloadditions, carbometallations, etc.), C-H bond and C-C bond

activations followed by subsequent reactions (e.g. arylation, alkenylations, annulations,

etc.), as well as many other processes. This volume also covers

the recent development and application of chiral Cp complexes in enantioselective synthesis.