Metal Catalysis in Micellar Media

The use of micellar media is receiving increasing attention in transition metal catalysis for a number of reasons involving both practical and fundamental issues, such as the possibility to get rid of large amounts of organic solvents as reaction media and simplify work‐up operations involved in product isolation, thus resulting in a significant improvement from the point of view of environmental acceptability. This is an important motivation from a practical point of view and in the perspective of possible industrial applications. Equally important are some extra advantages imparted by micelles, some of them hardly predictable when this field started being systematically explored.