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The Council, acting through the Committee on National Policy of the American Chemical Society, appointed the editors, named at the close of this introduction, to have charge of securing author s, and of considering critically the manuscripts prepared. The editors of each series will endeavor to select topics which are of current interest and authors who are recognized as authorities in their respective fields. The list of monographs thus far secured appears in the publisher s own announcement elsewhere in this volume. 

Numerous reviews, special journal editions and books have been already devoted to the topic of aqueous organometallic catalysis especially in the last 5-8 years. All these publications, however, comprise of detailed reviews or accounts on particular topics written by leading specialists. While this is certainly beneficial for those who themselves work in the same direction, non-specialists, students or those who are just to enter this field of research may be better served by a monograph of the style and size of the Catalysis by Metal Complexes series. In 1994, in Volume 15 of this series, a chapter was published on aqueous organometallic hydrogenations - with the aim of giving a complete description of what had been done before in that respect. After only seven years such an aim of all-inclusivity is irrealistic, and this had to bring with itself a selection of the literature used. 

The examples presented and the references recommended herein have been selected from more than ten thonsand research papers, with emphasis placed on both classical and recent woifcs. It is hoped that this monograph will be helpful to colleagues— electrochemists and non-electrochemists alike— who are interested in this swiftly developing field of science. 

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