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Arenes and heteroarenes are essential substructures of numerous compounds with activities that are relevant to a variety of important areas of research, ranging inter alia from medicinal chemistry and biology to materials sciences. As a result, the selective preparation of these omnipresent moieties is of the utmost relevance to synthetic chemists, both in industry and academia. The introduction of already existing aryl-or heteroaryl-groups–which we recognize today as ‘arylation chemistry’–arguably constitutes the most generally applicable approach to accomplish this task. Thus, the recent growing impact of–and also interest in–arylation chemistry is reflected by the increasing numbers of references that contain the term ‘arylation’{SciFinder Scholar (October 2008): 41 (1968), 124 (1978), 178 (1988), 188 (1998), 755 (2007)}. Hence, Modern Arylation Methods summarizes the diverse aspects of arylation reactions …