Cross-coupling reactions, such as the Stille reaction of organostannanes [1][2][3] and the Suzuki (or Suzuki-Miyaura) cross-coupling of organoboron compounds [4] have settled amongst the more general and selective palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions [5] (Scheme 1-1). These reactions are closely related to other cross-couplings based on transmetallations of a variety of hard or soft organometallic nucleophiles [6] such as the Hiyama [7,8], Sonogashira [9], Kumada (or Kumada-Corriu), and other related couplings [10][11][12].Coupling reactions are somewhat related to the Heck alkenylation of organic electrophiles [13, 14], which is often referred to in the literature as a coupling process. However, although the first steps in both processes are identical, in the Heck reaction there is no transmetallation step. In the alkenylation reaction, the C-C bond is formed by an insertion process, which is followed by a b-hydride elimination to form the substituted alkene product. Cross-coupling (transmetallationbased) processes are a family of closely related catalytic processes that share most mechanistic aspects, although some differences exist on the activation of the organometallic nucleophile. So far, most of the detailed mechanistic studies have cen-