Over the last decade, growth in the area of homogeneous catalysis with transition metal has been phenomenal, with research in this area earning three Nobel Prizes and thousands of patents filed relating to metallocene and non-metallocene single site catalysts, asymmetric catalysis, carbon-carbon bond forming metathesis and cross coupling reactions.

This text explains these new developments in a unified, cogent, and easy to understand manner while also detailing earlier discoveries and the fundamentals of homogeneous catalysis. The book serves as a self-study guide for students and all chemists seeking to gain entry into this field of great scientific interest and technological promise. It can also be used by experienced researchers from both academia and industry for referring to leading state of the art review articles and patents, and also as a quick self-study manual in an area that is outside their immediate expertise.

Topics explored include: Renewable feed stocks (biofuel, glycerol), Carbon dioxide based processes (Polycarbonates), Fluorous solvents, Ionic liquid, Cativa process, Novel ligands (pincer, wide bite angle etc.), Non-metallocene single site catalysts,  Selective tri- and tetramerization of ethylene (metallacycles), Biodegradable plastics (Polylactate), Suzukii and related reactions, Methane to methanol, Nitrogen to ammonia, Organo- and Biocatalysis of relevance, Catalytic cracking, hydrodesulfurization, E-factor, ligands, metal-ligand bonds, Zeigler-Natta catalysts, metathesis, Heck and C-C bond forming reactions, engineering aspects of carbonylation, hydroformylation, polymerization, oxidation, asymmetric catalysis.