Course Title : Industrial Applications & Chemistry  of Homogeneous Catalysis

Course Outline:

1.  Trends In Homogeneous Catalysis in Industry
2. Isomerization of Olefins
3. Reactions of olefins and dienes - Hydrogenations and HY additions
4.Polymerization and Oligomerizations of olefins
5. Rxns of CO
6. Oxidation of Olefins & Dienes
7. Oxidation of hydrocarbons by Oxygen
8. Arene chemistry and Coupling
9.Carbene Complexes and Olefin metathesis
10.Esterification and polycondensation

Text Book: Homogeneous Catalysis: The Applications & Chemistry of
Catalysis by Soluble Transition Metals By G. W. Parshall and SD. Ittel,
Wiley InterScience (latest edition)

References : 

1)Applied homegenous Catalysis by Cornils/Herman
2)Metal catalyzed... Diederich and Stang
3) Cotton and Wilkinson
4) Crabtree
5) Huhee

Prerequisites:

This is a graduate course which may also be taken by senior level
undergraduates.  Organic I & II are prerequisites.  Some background in
Inorganic or Organometallic would be beneficial.