This Microreview on the chemistry of organozinc reagents starts by bri
efly showing the methods of preparation of organozinc compounds and th
en discusses the considerable synthetic utility of zinc organometallic
s for the formation of new carbon-carbon bonds in the presence of tran
sition-metal catalysts. Finally, the use of organozinc chemistry for t
he preparation of polyfunctional and chiral phosphanes is described.