Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:0, Lb:0]
Knowledge of the content of CHM303 and CHM306 is essential to follow this course.
- Brief discussion about coordination chemistry of s-block elements.
Structural features of s-block hydrides, halides, oxides and oxyacids.
- Recent advances in chemistry of boranes, metallaboranes, carboranes,
metallacarboranes. Organoaluminium compounds and low-valent aluminium
compounds.
- Structure, bonding and applications of main group elements containing
CO, CN-, C
H
, Cp, Cp* ligands.
- Discussion of Schrock and Fischer carbene complexes of transition
metals; Carbyne and allyl complexes of transition metals: synthesis,
structure, bonding and catalysis.
- Polyhedral clusters including M-M bonded complexes: synthesis,
structure, bonding and properties. Polyhedral skeletal electron pair
approach.
- Concept of isolobality and stereochemical nonrigidity
- Fluxional organo transition metal compounds
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