1.1.1 General Principles of Metal/Metal Dual Catalysis

The background and principles of dual metal/metal catalysis are briefly introduced in this section, with a particular focus on novel C–C bond-forming cross-coupling-type reactions. By taking advantage of synergistic dual metal/metal catalysis, these transformations have provided the synthetic and organometallic communities with new ideas to design challenging transformations that are difficult to catalyze using a conventional, single metal catalyst.