This volume is designed to disseminate practical expertise in this important and demanding area of chemistry to undergraduate and postgraduate students in universities and to researchers working in the chemical industry. The authors have considerable practical and teaching experience in the areas they cover. Topics include transition metal-promoted oxidations, palladium-catalysed carbon-carbon bond formation, ferrocene chemistry, applications of organoiron complexes in organic synthesis, applications of titanocene and zirconocene complexes in organic synthesis and arene chromium tricarbonyl chemistry.