Presents the wide range of carbene-transformation and its application in cross-coupling reactions, insertion reactions, asymmetric synthesis and many more.

Jianbo Wang is full professor at Peking University. He received his Ph.D. from Hokkaido University (under the supervision of Prof. Hiroshi Suginome) in 1990. He was postdoctoral associate at the University of Geneva from 1990 to 1993 with Prof. Charles W. Jefford, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1993 to 1995 with Prof. Howard E. Zimmerman. Prof. Wang's research interests is focused on catalytic metal carbene transformations. He has published over 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including >50 papers published in Nat. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Rev., and Acc. Chem. Res. These papers have been cited >11000 times. He serves as associate editor of the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry (Wiley) and Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry. He is on the editorial advisory board of Organic Letters and Tetrahedron/Tetrahedron Letters. ChiMing Che is Zhou Guangzhao Professor in Natural Science at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Director of China`s State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry. His honors include the China State Natural Science Award (First Class) and the Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Michael P. Doyle is Rita and John Feik Distinguished University Chair in Medicinal Chemistry at The University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA. He has received numerous awards and is the author and co-author of numerous books and more than 400 journal publications.

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