The course will provide students with an in-depth knowledge about several aspects related to homogeneous catalysis. The first part of the course (48 hours of classroom lessons) concerns the deepening of the main catalytic processes, from the synthetic and the mechanistic point of view, with attention both to laboratory-scale and to industrial processes. The second part (24 hours of laboratory experiments) will focus on the attainment of the aptitude of students to apply the previously acquired knowledge to practical experiments where they will prepare and characterize some organometallic catalysts and will use them in hydrogenation and/or C-C bond-forming catalytic reactions