**Meet the editor**

Dr. Reza Davarnejad was born in 1978 (Arak, Iran). He received his PhD degree from the Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang, Malaysia) in 2010. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Arak University (Arak, Iran) as an assistant professor in 2010. His researches are presently being conducted on the environmental engineering (water and wastewater treatment)

through advanced oxidation processes such as electro-Fenton and adsorption. He is a consultant of some industries (local and international ones) as well. He currently has more than 80 publications and research activities. Furthermore, he has been as deputy (educational & research) of Mahallat Institute of Higher Education (Mahallat, Iran) since 2017. At present, he is an associate professor in Chemical Engineering at the Arak University.

Dr. Baharak Sajjadi was born in Iran in 1984. She graduated in Chemical Engineering in 2008 from the Arak University (Iran) and received her master degree, ranked as the first-best student in 2010, from the same university. She completed her PhD degree in the area of biochemical processing in 2015 from the University of Malaya. Her other interests include computational fluid

dynamic (CFD) simulation, energy and environment, bioenergy and biofuels and Sono-Physics. Till date, she has published more than 40 papers in high-impact research journals. She joined the University of Mississippi in the United States in early 2017 as a postdoctoral researcher and is currently a research assistant professor working on transformational solar chemical looping and photo-ultrasonic renewable biomass refinery.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Alkene Synthesis 1**

**Section 2 Alkene Functionalization 41**

**Prospects 43**

**Section 3 Alkene Metathesis 65**

Bal'zhinimaev

Chapter 1 **Tandem-, Domino- and One-Pot Reactions Involving Wittigand Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Olefination 3** Fatima Merza, Ahmed Taha and Thies Thiemann

Chapter 2 **Alkene and Olefin Functionalization by Organoaluminum**

Leonard M. Khalilov and Usein M. Dzhemilev

**Section 4 Oxidation of the Simplest Conjugated Diolefin 97**

Chapter 3 **Olefin Metathesis by Group VI (Mo, W) Metal Compounds 67**

Chapter 4 **Reactivity of a Simplest Conjugated Diolefin in Liquid-Phase Oxidation: Mechanisms and Products 99**

Aimery de Mallmann, Régis Gauvin and Mostafa Taoufik

**Compounds, Catalyzed with Zirconocenes: Mechanisms and**

Lyudmila V. Parfenova, Pavel V. Kovyazin, Tatyana V. Tyumkina,

Frédéric Lefebvre, Yassine Bouhoute, Kai C. Szeto, Nicolas Merle,

Nina I. Kuznetsova, Lidia I. Kuznetsova, Olga A. Yakovina and Bair S.
