Alkane Functionalization: Introduction and Overview / Armando J L Pombeiro -- C-O Bond Formation. Hydroxylation and Other Oxygenation Reactions -- Activation and Oxidative Functionalization of Alkanes with Noble-Metal Catalysts: Molecular Mechanisms / Evgeniy G Chepaikin -- Alkane-Oxidizing Systems Based on Metal Complexes. Radical Versus Nonradical Mechanisms / Georgiy B Shul'pin -- Reactions of Alkyl Radicals in Aqueous Solutions / Dan Meyerstein -- C-H Bond Oxidation with Transition-Metal-Based Carbene Complexes / Bruno Dominelli, Anja C Lindhorst, Fritz E Kühn -- Alkane Oxidation with C-Scorpionate Metal Complexes / Luísa M D R S Martins -- Alkane Oxidation with Multinuclear Heterometallic Catalysts / Dmytro S Nesterov, Oksana V Nesterova, Armando J L Pombeiro -- Oxidative Functionalization of Methane on Heterogeneous Catalysts / Maricruz Sanchez-Sanchez, Johannes A Lercher -- Gas-Phase Oxidation of Alkanes / Fabrizio Cavani, Alessandro Chieregato, Jose M López Nieto, Jean-Marc M Millet -- Bioinspired Alkane Functionalization -- Recent Developments of Bioinspired Approaches to Functionalization of Light Alkanes / Alexander B Sorokin -- Regioselectivity of Non-heme Iron Catalysts for C-H Activation / Christian R Goldsmith -- Imine-based Iron and Manganese Complexes as Catalysts for Alkane Functionalization / Giorgio Olivo, Osvaldo Lanzalunga, Stefano Di Stefano -- Alkane Oxidation with Biologically Inspired Nonheme Iron Catalysts Based in the Triazacyclononane Ligand Scaffold / Miquel Costas -- The Nature of High-Valent Oxometal Intermediates of Iron-Aminopyridine Mediated Oxidations / Oleg Y Lyakin, Konstantin P Bryliakov, Evgenii P Talsi -- Selective Oxidation of Alkanes by Metallo-Monooxygenases and Their Nanobiomimetics / Chih-Cheng Liu, Yi-Fang Tsai, Wondemagegn H Wanna, Ravirala Ramu, Damodar Janmanchi, Sunney I Chan, Steve S-F Yu -- Alkane Oxidation with Vanadium and Copper Catalysts / Manas Sutradhar, Luísa M D R S Martins, M Fátima C Guedes da Silva, Armando J L Pombeiro -- C-B, C-C and C-N Bond Formation -- Catalytic Borylation of Methane: Combining Computational and High-Throughput Screening Approaches to Discover a New Catalyst / Pavel Zatsepin, Dieter Sorsche, Seihwan Ahn, Mu-Hyun Baik, Daniel J Mindiola -- Alkane Carbonylation and Carbene Insertion Reactions / Ana M Faisca Phillips, Armando J L Pombeiro -- Catalytic Alkane Amidation and Related Reactions / Dmytro S Nesterov, Luís M T Frija, Armando J L Pombeiro, Maximilian N Kopylovich -- Dehydrogenation Reactions -- Oxidative and Nonoxidative Routes to Alkane Dehydrogenation / Jay A Labinger -- Dehydrogenation of Alkanes Using Molecular Catalysts / Huaquan Fang, Guixia Liu, Zheng Huang -- Unconventional Systems -- Nontransition Metal Catalyzed Oxidation of Alkanes with Peroxides / Maxim L Kuznetsov -- Metal-Free Functionalization of Alkanes / Jincan Zhao, Jianlin Han -- Alkane Functionalization under Unconventional Conditions: in Ionic Liquid, in Supercritical CO2, and Microwave Assisted / Ana P C Ribeiro, Elisabete C B A Alegria, António Palavra, Armando J L Pombeiro -- Noncovalent Interactions in Alkane Chemistry / Kamran T Mahmudov, M Fátima C Guedes da Silva, Fedor I Zubkov, Armando J L Pombeiro -- Alkane Complexation / Robert H Crabtree -- Alkane-Related C-H Bond Activation and Functionalization of Aliphatic Amines / Christian Bruneau, Mathieu Achard.