Catalysts are increasingly used by chemists in both industry and the academe, but they require both skill and experience to achieve optimal results. In this volume in the series, advanced undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students get tested and validated procedures, and reviews and assessments of metal catalyzed carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. Chapter topics include alkylation and allylation adjacent to a carbonyl group, asymmetric alkylation or aminatin of allylic esters, Suzuki, Beck and Sonogashira coupling reactions, cross-coupling reactions, regioselective or asymmetric 1,2-addition to aldehydes, olefin metathesis reactions, cyclization reactions, asymmetric aldol and Michael reactions, and steroeselective hydroformylation, carbonylation and carboxylation reactions.