Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:0, Lb:0]
Knowledge of the content of CHM306 is essential to follow this course.
- General introduction, Structure and bonding, 18-electron rule, Wades
rule, survey of organometallic complexes.
- Preparation, properties and bonding of metal carbonyl, nitrosyls,
tertiary phosphines, hydrides, alkene, alkyne, cyclobutadiene,
cyclopentadiene, arene compounds and their molecular orbital diagrams.
- Preparation and applications of organomagnesium compounds,
organolithium compounds, organocopper reagents, organozinc compounds,
organolead compounds, organoaluminum compounds, organosilanes and
organoboranes towards organic tranformations.
- Metal-carbon multiple bonds; carbene and carbyne complexes including
N-heterocyclic carbene complexes.
- Metal-metal bonded organometallic clusters.
- Fluxional organometallic compounds including allyl complexes and their
characterization.
- Metallocycles, unsaturated nitrogen ligands including dinitrogen
complexes.
- J. P. Collman, L. S. Hegedus, J. R. Norton (Author), R. G. Finke :
Principles and Applications of Organotransition Metal
Chemistry, 1st Ed, University Science Books, California (1987).
- D. Astruc: Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis, 1st Ed,
Springer, Berlin (2007).
- R. H. Crabtree: The Organometallic Chemistry of The Transition
Metals, 4th Ed, Wiley, New Jersy (2005).
