The carbopalladation of an alkene by an organylpalladium halide is the essential step in one of the major contemporary metal-catalyzed C-C coupling reactions. About 45 years ago, a Japanese and an American group almost simultaneously designed and executed palladium-mediated coupling reactions of aryl and alkenyl halides with alkenes [1]. In subsequent investigations, Richard Heck and his group developed this reaction into a catalytic transformation and started to demonstrate its usefulness as well as its rather broad scope. The real push to utilize this powerful C-C-bondforming process, however, started only around the mid-1980s, and by now, an impressive number of publications have established the meanwhile so-called Heck reaction [2] 1) as an indispensable method in Organic Synthesis [3][4][5][6][7]. The universal recognition of the importance of the Heck reaction and the Negishi as well as the Suzuki coupling eventually won the Nobel Prize for Richard Heck along with Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki in 2010. The applications of the Heck reaction range from the preparation of -functionalized and unfunctionalized -hydrocarbons, novel polymers, and dyes to new advanced enantioselective syntheses of natural products and biologically active nonnatural compounds. The more or less simultaneous developments of mechanistically related variants, namely, the Kumada, Suzuki, Stille, Hiyama, and Negishi coupling reactions (Chapters 12, 2, 3, 4, and 15, respectively) of metallated alkenes and arenes with aryl and alkenyl halides or the metal-catalyzed formation and cycloisomerization of enynes have drawn profit from the improvement of and mechanistic insights into the Heck reaction. This, of course, applies vice versa as well. Using only a catalytic amount of a palladium(0) complex or a precursor to a palladium species, the Heck reaction can bring about unprecedented structural changes, particularly when conducted intramolecularly. The full potential of this palladium-catalyzed process is still being further explored as demonstrated by a total of over 7000 publications in the past 40 years by 1) The alkynylation of aryl and alkenyl halides, frequently also considered as Heck reactions, is described in Chapter 6.