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To Appear in CHEMICAL REVIEWS, Vol. 100, No. 8 The Heck Reaction as a Sharpening Stone of Palladium CatalysissIrina P. Beletskaya and Andrei V. Cheprakov, Moscow State University. Reagent-Controlled Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Radical ReactionssAndreas Gansa¨uer and Harald Bluhm, Institut fu¨r Organische Chemie und Biochemie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universita¨t. Efficient Synthesis of Tricarbonyliron−Diene ComplexessDevelopment of an Asymmetric Catalytic ComplexationsHans-Joachim Kno¨lker, Universita¨t Karlsruhe. Metal-Catalyzed Carbon−Sulfur Bond FormationsTeruyuki Kondo and Take-aki Mitsudo, Kyoto University. 1,n-Dicarbanionic Titanium Intermediates from Monocarbanionic Organometallics and Their Application in Organic SynthesissOleg G. Kulinkovichand Armin de Meijere, Belarussian State University, and Georg-AugustUniversita¨t Go¨ttingen. Synthesis of Heterocyclic and Carbocyclic Compounds via Alkynyl, Allyl, and Propargyl Organometallics of Cyclopentadienyl Iron, Molybdenum, and Tungsten ComplexessChien-Le Li and Rai-Shung Liu, National Tsing-Hua University. Transition Metal-Catalyzed Activation of Aliphatic C−X Bonds in the Carbon−Carbon Bond FormationsTien-Yau Luh, Man-kit Leung, and Ken-Tsung Wong, National Taiwan University. Synthesis and Reactivity of sp2 Geminated Organobismetallic DerivativessIlan Marek, Israel Institute of Technology. Synthesis and Reactions of Allylic, Allenic, Vinylic, and Arylmetal Reagents from Halides and Esters via Transient Organopalladium IntermediatessJames A. Marshall, University of Virginia. Transition Metal-Mediated Dearomatization ReactionssAndrew R. Pape, Krishna P. Kaliappan, and E. Peter Ku¨ndig, University of Geneva. Recent Advances in the Transition Metal-Catalyzed Regioselective Approaches to Polysubstituted Benzene DerivativessShinichi Saito and Yoshinori Yamamoto, Tohoku University. Synthesis of Organotitanium Complexes from Alkenes and Alkynes, and Their Synthetic ApplicationssFumie Sato, Hirokazu Urabe, and Sentaro Okamoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Metal-Catalyzed HydrostannationssNicholas D. Smith, John Mancuso, and Mark Lautens,Merck Research Laboratories, and University of Toronto. Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Additions of Silicon−Silicon and Silicon−Heteroatom Bonds to Unsaturated Organic MoleculessMichinori Suginome and Yoshihiko Ito, Kyoto University. Ligand Bite Angle Effects in Metal-Catalyzed C−C Bond FormationsPiet W. N. M. van Leeuwen, Paul C. J. Kamer, Joost N. H. Reek, and Peter Dierkes, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Metal-Mediated Synthesis of Medium-Sized RingssLarry Yet, Albany Molecular Research, Incorporated. Palladium-Catalyzed Reactions of AllenessReinhold Zimmer, Chimmanamada U. Dinesh, Erathodiyil Nandanan, and Faiz Ahmed Khan, Technische Universita¨t Dresden, and Indian Institute of Technology.