Transition Metal Organometallic Chemistry [Paperback]

This book serves as a concise guide to essential topics in Transition Metal Organometallic Chemistry for senior undergraduate and graduate students; it blends qualitative theoretical approach with experimental description of the facts. Its content emphasizes on the orbital description of M-L bonds; the electronic structures of the main types of organometallic complexes (ML2 to ML6); main types of organometallic reactions; organometallic compound synthesis, analytical characterization and the reactivity and lastly the applications of transition metals in homogeneous catalysis.

1? ??General topics

1.1??? Some historical facts

1.2??? Basic data

1.3??? Electronic structures

1.4??? Molecular orbitals of some representative complexes

1.5??? Main reaction types

1.6??? Problems

2???????Main types of organometallic derivatives

2.1??? Metal hydrides

2.2??? Metal carbonyls

2.3??? Metal alkyls and aryls

2.4??? The zirconium-carbon bond in organic synthesis

2.5??? Metal carbenes

2.6??? Metal carbynes

2.7??? Some representative p complexes

2.7.1 h⁴-Diene-iron-tricarbonyls

2.7.2? Ferrocene

2.7.3 h⁶-Arene-chromium-tricarbonyls

2.8? Problems

3??? Homogeneous catalysis

3.1? Catalytic hydrogenation

3.2? Asymmetric hydrogenation

3.3? Hydrosilylation, hydrocyanation

3.4? Alkene hydroformylation

3.5? Alkene polymerization

3.6? Alkene metathesis

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