The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition MetalsFully updated and expanded to reflect recent advances, this Fourth Edition of the classic text provides students and professional chemists with an excellent introduction to the principles and general properties of organometallic compounds, as well as including practical information on reaction mechanisms and detailed descriptions of contemporary applications. |
Contents
| 1 | |
2 General Properties of Organometallic Complexes | 29 |
3 Metal Alkyls Aryls and Hydrides and Related σBonded Ligands | 53 |
4 Carbonyls Phosphine Complexes and Ligand Substitution Reactions | 87 |
5 Complexes of πBound Ligands | 125 |
6 Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination | 159 |
7 Insertion and Elimination | 183 |
8 Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Addition and Abstraction | 207 |
12 Applications of Organometallic Chemistry | 343 |
13 Clusters and the MetalMetal Bond | 379 |
14 Applications to Organic Synthesis | 417 |
15 Paramagnetic HighOxidationState and HighCoordinationNumber Complexes | 463 |
16 Bioorganometallic Chemistry | 491 |
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Major Reaction Types | 523 |
Solutions to Problems | 525 |
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acceptor acid active agostic alkane alkene alkyne allyl Angew anion arene atom back bonding back donation bind bridging C−H bond carbon carbonyl catalyst Chem chiral Cl Cl cluster compounds configuration coordination number coupling cyclometallation deprotonation diene dissociation donor electron count electronegative electrophilic enantiomer energy enzyme ethylene example favored Fischer geometry give halide hydride hydrogen Inorg insertion intermediate ionic model isolobal isomers ligand lone pair M−M bonds mechanism metal complexes metallocene metathesis methyl molecule nucleophilic attack octahedral orbitals organic Organomet organometallic chemistry oxidative addition paramagnetic phosphines PMe3 polymer PPh3 proton R. H. Crabtree radical reaction reactive reacts reagent rearrangement reductive elimination resonance Schrock Schrock carbene Section shown in Eq shown in Fig shows solvent species spin stable stereochemistry steric structure substitution substrate synthesis tend thermodynamic trans transition metal undergo unsaturated usually
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